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RIM launches iAfya mobile health app for BlackBerry smartphones in Kenya
TT Correspondent |  |  20 Aug 2012

RIM has launched Avallain, an online education specialist that uses ICT to positively impact human development, announced a new mobile health app for BlackBerry smartphone customers in Kenya.

 

The iAfya app allows users to quickly and easily find comprehensive and trusted health information and resources at their fingertips from any location, which is ideal for people living and working in remote areas.

 

According to analyst firm, Informa Telecoms and Media, the number of people in Africa with access to mobile phones is over 560 million and exceeds those with access to the Internet by nearly five to one. Well designed, easy-to-use mobile applications therefore have a critical role in extending basic healthcare information to under-served communities.

 
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20 Aug 2012(IST)  
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It's interesting to compare the health-care benefits that have evolved from the mobile communication revolution. In the West it was responsible for the spread of Facebook Fever (and others), a nihilistic pandemic resulting, in extreme cases, of information that embarrass your relatives. Whereas in Africa it becomes an invaluable tool in distributing scarce medical resources to the wider population. Few people in the West realise the extraordinary contribution mobile communications offers to the social and economic progress of these emerging nations where the pandemic is OPTIMISM. BlackBerries are a super food. The BlackBerry is a super tool.
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