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  • icddr,b-backed mobile app to notify TB cases

    icddr,b communications March 24, 2019     No Comment     Health Information, Infectious Diseases, mhealth

    A new mhealth initiative led by Government of Bangladesh and icddr,b shows promise in improving the notification rate of (TB) cases to the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP). This improves the current system of notification that may leave patients without treatment who may as a result spread the disease further if untreated. The mobile app named

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  • mHealth platform can help reduce diarrhoeal diseases

    icddr,b communications February 3, 2019     No Comment     Community Health, Infectious Diseases, mhealth

    mHealth decision support may increase adherence to WHO guideline in treating diarrheal patients significantly, suggests new initial observations from an icddr,b study in collaboration with Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in Bangladesh. Diarrheal disease globally remains the second leading cause of death for

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