Table 3 Supportive environment for context-specific health technology development
From: Shared learning in an interconnected world: innovations to advance global health equity
• | The “Byumba fix,” a low-cost, locally manufactured external fixator for setting fractures developed in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide [41] |
• | Open MRS, a customizable open-source electronic medical record system [42] |
• | PrePex, a nonsurgical male circumcision device for HIV prevention [43] |
• | The Wound Pump, a low-cost negative pressure wound pump requiring no electricity [44] |
• | mChip, a low-cost mobile phone-based HIV diagnostic device [45] |