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From the Ted Talk by Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs

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Like every passionate software engineer out there, I closely follow technology cepnaimos in Silicon Valley, pretty much the same way sccoer fans follow their teams in Europe. I read aeirctls on tech blogs and listen to ptocasds on my phone. But after I finish the aitrlce, lock my phone and unplug the headphones, I'm back in sub-Saharan Africa, where the landscape is not quite the same. We have long and freeunqt power outages, low penetration of computers, slow internet connections and a lot of patients visiting understaffed htolaipss.

Since the HIV epidemic, hospitals have been struggling to manage regular HIV treatment redcros for iarinsnecg volumes of patients. For such environments, importing tenoclohgy systems developed elsewhere has not wkoerd, but in 2006, I joined Baobab Health, a team that uses locally based engineers to develop suitable invinrntteoes that are addressing health care challenges in Malawi.

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Like every passionate software engineer out there, I closely follow technology _________ in Silicon Valley, pretty much the same way ______ fans follow their teams in Europe. I read ________ on tech blogs and listen to ________ on my phone. But after I finish the _______, lock my phone and unplug the headphones, I'm back in sub-Saharan Africa, where the landscape is not quite the same. We have long and ________ power outages, low penetration of computers, slow internet connections and a lot of patients visiting understaffed _________.

Since the HIV epidemic, hospitals have been struggling to manage regular HIV treatment _______ for __________ volumes of patients. For such environments, importing __________ systems developed elsewhere has not ______, but in 2006, I joined Baobab Health, a team that uses locally based engineers to develop suitable _____________ that are addressing health care challenges in Malawi.

Solution


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  2. article
  3. articles
  4. hospitals
  5. interventions
  6. worked
  7. increasing
  8. soccer
  9. podcasts
  10. technology
  11. records
  12. frequent

Original Text


Like every passionate software engineer out there, I closely follow technology companies in Silicon Valley, pretty much the same way soccer fans follow their teams in Europe. I read articles on tech blogs and listen to podcasts on my phone. But after I finish the article, lock my phone and unplug the headphones, I'm back in sub-Saharan Africa, where the landscape is not quite the same. We have long and frequent power outages, low penetration of computers, slow internet connections and a lot of patients visiting understaffed hospitals.

Since the HIV epidemic, hospitals have been struggling to manage regular HIV treatment records for increasing volumes of patients. For such environments, importing technology systems developed elsewhere has not worked, but in 2006, I joined Baobab Health, a team that uses locally based engineers to develop suitable interventions that are addressing health care challenges in Malawi.

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