Abstract Introduction South Africa introduced Universal Test and Treat in 2016 including antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation on the same‐day as HIV diagnosis. Our study sought to evaluate the impact of same‐day ART initiation on loss to follow‐up (LTFU) and mortality comparing with patients who initiated ART after their HIV diagnosis. Methods We conducted a file …
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Artificial intelligence unmasks Covid-19 hotspots
Analytics, Big Data, BroadReach, Covid-19, HealthWith Covid-19 cases rapidly spreading across the country, South Africans have been hearing a lot about hotspots, clusters and targeted testing lately. A home-grown cloud-enabled screening and communication app has been helping community health care workers in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal mark hotspots seamlessly by recording live community screening in real time. The Vantage community screening …
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Listen In: Using tech to tackle Covid-19
BroadReach, Covid-19, Health, InnovationAshley Holling, the Program Execution Manager at BroadReach Consulting talks to Cape Talk about how we have partnered with the Department of Health to roll out a COVID-19 community screening mobile app called Vantage across KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga in South Africa. To listen to the interview, click here.
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Upcoming Covid-19 Webinar: Effective use of technology to flatten the Covid 19 curve in Africa.
Africa, BroadReach, Covid-19, Disruptive technology, Health, Universal Health CoverageDate: Friday, 17 April Time: 4 – 5pm (EAT) Register here: https://bit.ly/2V9WcA6 Our Founding Partner, Dr Ernest Darkoh will be joining the panel to discuss how BroadReach is using Vantage technology in the response to Covid-19 to flatten the curve.
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Mpumalanga launches Vantage mobile app to stop Covid-19 spread
Announcement, Covid-19, Health, MediaSouth Africa, 9 April 2020: BroadReach Group is proudly partnering with the Mpumalanga Department of Health to roll out its Covid-19 community screening mobile app, on the Vantage platform, today (9 April). Over the next month, thousands of community healthcare workers are being deployed throughout the province, with a population of 4.5 million, in a …
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Q&A: New BroadReach Group CEO on what it takes to lead
BroadReach, Health, Universal Health CoverageTo achieve universal health coverage, strong leadership is vital, according to Chris LeGrand, new group CEO for the data-driven, technology-enabled BroadReach Group and former president of DAI Global Health and CEO of Futures Group. “My philosophy is that everything starts and ends with leadership, that nothing actually happens without it,” said LeGrand, who has taken over from co-founders …
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Achieving UHC with fourth industrial revolution technology
Disruptive technology, Health, Universal Health CoverageHealth care providers in emerging economies understand that the pursuit of universal health coverage by 2030 will place considerable pressure on already over-burdened health systems. The fundamental challenge is that demand greatly outstrips supply. Health care leaders operating at all points along the continuum of care understand that UHC by 2030 will require them to …
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South Africa leading the way in the fight against HIV and AIDS
Announcement, Health, HIVHealth Minister Zweli Mkhize, officially announced that the first high prevalence district in South Africa, the Ugu District in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) reached the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, a key milestone in controlling the HIV epidemic. Ugu has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world with 27% of the population HIV positive, making …
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Interview: BroadReach Consulting’s Ernest Darkoh on how tech innovations are improving healthcare in Africa
Africa, Health, MediaAt the fifth Forbes Africa Future of Health Summit held in Sandton, Dr Ernest Darkoh, the co-Founder and co-CEO of BroadReach spoke to CNBC Africa’s Jill de Villiers about how technologies are set to improve healthcare on the continent, and the technological innovation spearheaded on the continent itself. To listen to the interview, click here. …
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Podcast: Digital Health Today: Ending the HIV Epidemic with Digital Health
Health, Media, Social EntrepreneursOur Co-founder John Sargent, together with Kaakpema Yelpaala, founder of partners access.mobile, discusses digital health as a solution to ending the HIV epidemic. Listen here, or below:
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Interview: 9th SA AIDS Conference in Durban
Africa, BroadReach, Health, Media, Sustainable DevelopmentDr Ernest Darkoh, one of our Co-founders, was interviewed live on ENCA to talk about the SA AIDS Conference: Unprecedented Innovations and Technologies which took place from 11 – 14 June in Durban, South Africa. Organized by The Foundation for Professional Development (FPD), this conference is the second largest HIV conference in the world, and …
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Data is the new oil
Analytics, Disruptive technology, HealthDr. Uchenna currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Party at BroadReach for the Regional Action through Data (RAD) program and has worked in the development and health space for the past 26 years. His multi-faceted career spans global public health, clinical medicine, communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as public sector health program management …
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The next frontier for intelligent health technology
BroadReach, HealthThe availability of mobile technology, acceleration of computing power, and advances in analytic techniques in recent years have boosted optimism in the quest to help the 3.6 billion or more people worldwide who lack access to essential health services. The central question is how we create learning systems and use technology to harness medical knowledge …
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We’ve got this
Big Data, HealthI wake up every morning passionate about the work I get to contribute to, work that is inspired by my formative experience in the health care system. For a numbers guy like myself, there has never been a better time to be in digital health. We are just at the beginning of an incredible journey …
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Unlocking the secret of success in public health systems
Africa, BroadReach, HealthBy Louise Allen, BroadReach: Vice President, Client Success Louise is responsible for formulating and delivering the solutions that solve our clients’ critical problems, where people, data and expertise intersect. She brings more than two decades of healthcare experience, in both the public and private sectors, and is deeply committed to improving health outcomes in under-served …
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Testing new approaches to simplify patients’ access to HIV treatment
Africa, Analytics, Health, USAIDDr Dvora Joseph Davey has more than two decades of experience in the development, management and evaluation of HIV prevention and treatment programs in Africa. She presented a research poster titled “Uptake of HIV differentiated care models for patients on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa” at the 22nd Annual International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. Conferences …
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