GOGP+; The Medicine Smart Phone Application Linking Doctors to Patients - 22/04/2020
GOGP+ Seven Doctors Mobile APP
Technical Community and Civil Society | Africa | Uganda
In light of the presidential directive grounding public transport and regulating private vehicles to stem the spread of COVID-19, GOGP+, a telemedicine app has been designed to do away with physically visiting a hospital. Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications and software to provide clinical services to patients remotely without making a physical visit to the hospital, and GOG (...)

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Free Digital Community Notice Board & Resources - 03/04/2020
Zenzeleni community networks
Technical Community and Civil Society | Africa | South Africa
One of the biggest challenges we experience in the rural communities during COVID-19 is access and to reliable, relevant and applicable information (specially in the local language isiXhosa). As most of the information published nationally and internationally used urban case scenarios, many of the preventative measures were not applicable to the rural context. This translated into heightened risk (...)

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V-NET - 01/04/2020
VPUU NPC
Technical Community and Civil Society | Africa | South Africa
As South Africa went into an extreme and effective COVID-19 lockdown we opened the V-NET network to the public in two informal settlements and created a landing page on our network in Monwabisi park, Khayelitsha. Monwabisi Park is an informal settlement or 'slum' of 10,000 households on the outskirts of Cape Town. The landing page provides links to the national zero-data-rated COVID-19 website as (...)

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