The Pierre Fabre Foundation – a public utility working to improve access to quality medicines and healthcare in the Global South – has presented awards to the four winners of its 2024 call for projects.
They include a project focusing on telehealth for geographically isolated and disadvantaged regions of the Philippines; decentralised healthcare promoting health in Thailand; a digital health platform designed to optimise primary care for families in Rwanda; and digital solutions aiming to eradicate neonatal mortality in low-income countries in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
The Pierre Fabre Foundation provides customised technical support to projects with a total budget of €100,000, and also supports networking with partners across the globe along with “skills-building workshops led by international experts to promote their development”.
Other news from Africa has included applications opening for a female tech mentorship, designed to offer female digital health entrepreneurs who are nationals or residents of any African country the opportunity to access advice and guidance on developing health tech solutions that target underserved populations.
We also reported on recent news around construction of the National Digital Health Center in Togo, West Africa, with the centre to focus on major areas including using technology to reduce maternal and child mortality in Togo by making digital and diagnostic tools such as obstetric ultrasound available to vulnerable populations; and promoting the use of remote analysis by specialists in the field.
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