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Mobile health apps gain acceptance in developing nations

Monday, January 17, 2011 — updated on December 25, 2020 - 3 min read

Aloe vera is one of the plants said to be medicinal. In Africa, the m-health technology is mainly on designing healthcare products or data collection applications to support healthcare. Photo/FILE

Mganga is a mobile phone application that was developed by Kenyan PhD student Shikoh Gitau and won her the Google Anita Borg award last year.

The mobile health application that will record, catalogue and map out traditional medicine and knowledge is among the over 200 million m-health platforms in use today.