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RTSL releases first-of-its-kind guide to effective, user-centered digital health tools

New playbook summarizes lessons from hundreds of health care workers and millions of patients on how to build a digital tool that saves time and lives.   A new playbook released by Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) compiles lessons learned from five years of health care workers using the Simple app to improve blood pressure control in patients in low-resource settings.  An effective digital information system can mean the difference between a long-term health program that fails and one that saves millions of lives, especially in busy primary care facilities that manage thousands of patients who need lifelong treatment for conditions like high blood pressure. “Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term care programs” offers step-by-step guidance for creating effective digital tools that health care workers like and use consistently, and that deliver information that can drive program improvement and scale.  Over the past 6 years, Resolve to Save Lives and partners

The MSC Foundation, the MSC Group and Mercy Ships International Join Forces to Build a new Hospital Ship

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The new purpose-built hospital ship will expand the impact of Mercy Ships’ life-changing surgeries, anaesthetic care and surgical education for future generations of patients and healthcare professionals in sub-Saharan Africa. A groundbreaking agreement between MSC Group, MSC Foundation and the charity Mercy Ships ( https://MercyShips.org ) International prepares for the construction of a brand-new hospital ship that will deliver free surgery and training annually to thousands of people in Africa. On 8 April, the chairman of MSC Group and MSC Foundation, Capt. Gianluigi Aponte, Diego Aponte, MSC Group President and Member of the MSC Foundation Board, and Mercy Ships Founder Don Stephens finalised an agreement to kickstart this new project with a generous anchor donation from MSC Foundation, reflecting the visionary leaders’ commitment to supporting access to critical healthcare for the generations to come. “I spent part of my childhood and early years in the shipping industry in the Ho

La Fondation MSC, Le Groupe MSC et Mercy Ships International Unissent leurs Forces pour Construire un Nouveau Navire-Hôpital

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Le nouveau navire, construit spécialement pour être un hôpital, permettra à Mercy Ships d'élargir encore l'impact de ses interventions chirurgicales, des soins anesthésiques et de l'enseignement de la chirurgie, sur des générations futures de patients et de professionnels de la santé en Afrique sub-saharienne. Un accord inédit entre le Groupe MSC, la Fondation MSC et l'organisation humanitaire internationale Mercy Ships ( https://MercyShips.org ) annonce la construction d'un tout nouveau navire-hôpital qui offrira chaque année des interventions chirurgicales et des formations gratuites à des milliers de personnes en Afrique. Le 8 avril, Capitaine Gianluigi Aponte, Chairman du Groupe MSC et de la Fondation MSC, Diego Aponte, président du Groupe MSC et membre du conseil d'administration de la Fondation MSC, et Don Stephens, fondateur de Mercy Ships, Don Stephens, ont finalisé un accord permettant de donner le coup d'envoi à ce nouveau projet grâce à une donati

Merck Foundation and African First Ladies mark World Health Day 2024 by providing 1740 scholarships to doctors from 52 countries in 44 specialties: Transforming patient care in Africa and beyond

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    Merck Foundation and African First Ladies mark World Health Day 2024 by providing 1740 scholarships to doctors from 52 countries in 44 specialties: Transforming patient care in Africa and beyond.   • Merck Foundation and African First Ladies together mark ‘World Health Day’ 2024 in a mission to transform patient care via providing more than 1740 scholarships to doctors from 52 countries in 44 critical and under-served medical specialties. Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany marks “World Health Day” 2024 together with Africa’s First Ladies who are also Ambassadors of Merck Foundation “More Than a Mother” Campaign through their Scholarship and Capacity Building Program. Senator, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation emphasized, “At Merck Foundation, we mark World Health Day every single day of the year over the past 12 years, by building healthcare capacity and transforming patient care across Africa, Asia and beyond. I am proud to share that