EcoSmart Uganda

The EcoSmart pads are innovative products produced by EcoSmart Uganda, a social enterprise that envisions a new era for every African girl and hopes to increase access to affordable menstrual health supplies for every female.

Introduction

EcoSmart aims at: reducing school absenteeism for girls that miss school during their menstruation, reducing waste generated from disposable sanitary pads by utilizing natural materials and providing employment through local production of the EcoSmart pads. 

DigiHealth

A mobile app and web-based platform that digitizes data management for health workers that conduct community health camps.

Introduction

DigiHealth Mobile is a mobile application and web based platform that digitizes the process of data collection for health workers that conduct community health camps. We are addressing the challenge of poor data management among development organisations in health using an improved low-cost set of digital tools focused on improving data collection, analysis and visualization in remote areas in order to drive better decision making.

TEHECA

A mobile app that connects new and expectant mothers to nurses for in home postpartum checkups and support.

Introduction

Teheca seeks to reduce the high infant and maternal mortality rate among new and expectant mothers through increasing uptake of postnatal among new mothers.

We connect mothers to nurses for personalised in home postnatal checkups and support through availing useful maternal health information, products and services so as to reduce high mortality rates of mothers and newborns in developing countries.

DRUGDASH

A web and mobile application that enables District Health Officers at the lower administrative levels to see and understand real-time information/data on the stock status of health care commodities and supplies between various health facilities so that they can make accurate and timely decisions on how to redistribute stock, leading to limited or no wastage and stock-outs thus increasing the availability of these commodities and supplies in the healthcare system.

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