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Kahkiihtwaam ee-pee-kiiweehtataahk: Bringing it back home again
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Maternal health enters the information age in Peru
How the Wawared project is using technology to collect and share health data that will improve the lives of women and, perhaps eventually, everyone in the nation
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In Peru, a pilot project that aims to improve maternal health by using technology to improve the health-care system’s efficiency could one day have an impact on the entire country. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a partnership between the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Geographic.
Visit the Charting Change website to read “Maternal health enters the information age in Peru.”
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