PATH

Despite the success of family planning programs since the 1960s, the unmet worldwide need for contraception remains high, with an estimated 120 million couples not having access to contraceptives. Each year, nearly 80 million women experience ...

Maternova

The Safe Birth Kit prevents infection during childbirth. The kit contains a larger-than-usual range of everyday items like soap to cleanse the birth mothers' perineum, a drape to provide a clean surface for delivery, gloves for the birth ...

Maternity Foundation

The Safe Delivery App is a smartphone application that provides skilled birth attendants with instant access to clinical guidelines on Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEmONC). The app leverages the growing ubiquity of mobile phones ...

Real Relief

Safepad™ is a reusable sanitary pad designed to provide a safe and infection free experience while in use.

75% of all women experience vaginal yeast or bacterial infections during their lifetime. These infections cause health issues and ...

Sana

Sana is a standard-focused open-source system that supports audio, images, location-based data, text, and in the future, video. Sana’s front-end for data and media capture is accessible through a fully programmable workflow interface. The ...

Zana Africa

Globally, 150 million children currently enrolled in school may drop out before completing primary school - at least 100 million of these are girls. Kenyan adolescent girls miss approximately 3.5 million learning days per month due to lack of ...

PATH

Injectable contraceptives are among the world’s most popular methods for preventing pregnancy, offering women safe and effective protection, convenience, and privacy. Sayana® Press, a new formulation and presentation of Depo-Provera®, offers ...

WE CARE Solar

The Solar Suitcase is a rugged, compact, easy-to-use solar electric system that provides last-mile health facilities with highly efficient medical lighting and power for mobile communication and medical appliances. This prewired device has ...

The Appropriate Technology Collaborative

The Solar Vaccine Refrigerator is made from locally sourced materials such as steel, charcoal, and ethanol or methanol. The fridge is made with a steel box, which is painted black and serves as a solar collector and absorber. The charcoal in ...

KXN Nigeria, Ltd.

While many healthcare solutions for battling known diseases exist, getting these solutions to those in need is often difficult. In remote parts of the developing world, the reliability of electricity or fuel is often low, and energy needs must ...

SolarEar

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 6000 million people are hearing impaired, This is because of lack of prevention and treatment of diseases as well as higher noise pollution in several employment sectors. In its more severe ...

Innovations in International Health

Medical devices and instruments need to be properly sterilized before and after use with different patients. Rural clinics in Nicaragua often lack a constant supply of electricity required to attain the 250°F minimum temperature for ...

PATH

Although sterile, disposable syringes and needles offer the best protection against transmission of bloodborne diseases, they are often reused in the developing world. Each year, more than 12 billion injections are administered worldwide; in ...

Emergency Ventilator Response

Information Updated: April 27th 2020

This is an AmbuBag device.

Spiro Wave is a low-cost automatic resuscitator that helps hospitals expand their capacity to care for patients with critical ventilation needs. The cost per unit is expected ...

Sproxil

Sproxil helps consumers in low-resource settings combat drug counterfeiting with a simple text message.

Sproxils Mobile Product Authentication™ (MPA™) technology ensures that consumers buy only genuine medicine by allowing patients to varify ...

TeachAIDS

Founded at Stanford University, TeachAIDS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social venture that creates breakthrough software addressing numerous persistent problems in HIV and AIDS prevention around the world. TeachAIDS uses a research-based design ...

University of Minnesota

Information updated: April 24th 2020

This is an AmbuBag device.

The emergency ventilator alternative device uses an electrically powered robotic arm to mechanically compress an off-the-shelf adult resuscitation bag. The device is an ...

The Lucky Iron Fish

The Lucky Iron Fish is a small iron cooking tool that infuses your meals with a healthy amount of natural iron to help prevent iron deficiency and anemia. It’s simple to use, and provides a natural source of iron that’s perfect for everyone ...

Because International

The Shoe That Grows is a patented design of an innovative shoe that adjusts and expands up to five different sizes. It was developed with the help of multiple shoe design firms inspired by feedback from those who need them. The shoe comes in ...

University College London

The UCL-Ventura breathing aid is a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device that supports patients with breathing difficulties. It works by pushing an air-oxygen mix into the mouth and nose at a continuous pressure, keeping airways ...

PATH

Ultra Rice grains resemble locally milled rice grains in size, shape, and color, but they are made from rice flour, selected micronutrients, and nutrient-protecting ingredients that are combined and extruded through a rice-shaped mold. When the ...

VecnaCares

VecnaCares builds and deploys the CliniPAK, a solar-powered, rugged server and power management system for ultra-low resource environments. The CliniPAK creates a digital connection for a specified area, enabling users to connect and implement ...

Formon

Information updated: April 27th 2020

This is an AmbuBag device, and is and automated ventilator mostly comprised of 3D printable materials.

Summary Specs:

• This is a Volume Control Ventilation, (VCV) device.
• It does have PEEP
• Tidal ...

VentilAid

Information updated: April 29th 2020

This is a Pneumatic device.

VentilAid is a simple device for non-invasive ventilation. It is especially projected to help patients suffering from COVID-19. VentilAid helps breathing, prevents alveoli ...

VerBien

The main objective of “Ver Bien para Aprender Mejor” (Good Vision to learn better) is to assist Mexican children with visual acuity deficiencies such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, amblyopia and astigmatism. These problems can be corrected ...

Malnutrition Matters

The VitaGoat is a food processing system for developing countries. It serves as a principal vehicle for micro-enterprises, while providing local communities or social institutions with high-quality nutrition. Operating without the need for any ...

Mafami PTY LTD - Vula

Solution Purpose: Vula connects remote primary health care workers directly to on-call medical specialists using mobile technology. It is a secure medical chat & referral app that puts primary health workers in direct contact with medical ...

World Health Partners

World Health Partners combines existing social and economic infrastructure with communication, diagnostics, and medical technology to deliver health and reproductive health services to rural, marginalized communities in the developing world. ...