TECHNOLOGIES IN DEVELOPMENT

Many products introduced into low- and middle-income countries fail because of an inadequate understanding of the factors required for successful utilization. To be effective in low-resource settings, especially at the community level, technologies must meet operational and performance requirements consistent with the community setting and the skills of community health workers who may be the primary users of the technology. We’ve collected many technologies in development that address some of these requirements. We invite you to review these technologies in development and submit comments. Please use the search function to narrow your focus by condition, development status, or keyword. You may also submit a technology.

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GE India Mobile Ultrasound

GE India Mobile Ultrasound

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: MULTIPLE CONDITIONS
  Manish Arora of the GE India Technology Centre Private Limited in Bangalore, India will assess the feasibility of using new low-cost ultrasound transducers to create an affordable diagno...Read More
Last Update: 10.21.13
TYPE
Diagnostic, Prevention, Treatment
STAGE
Field/clinical studies
FUNDING
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
GenExSurf

GenExSurf

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
  Charles (Skip) Smith of Seattle Children's Hospital in the U.S. seeks to develop a low cost pulmonary surfactant that can be administered by minimally educated health care workers to...Read More
Last Update: 5.9.13
TYPE
Treatment
STAGE
Early R&D
FUNDING
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
IncuBlanket

IncuBlanket

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: HYPOTHERMIA
Application Designed for use in low-resource settings. Current focus is on rural sites in India whose closest health care facility is a community health center or midwife. ; &n...Read More
Last Update: 12.16.13
TYPE
Treatment
STAGE
Field/clinical studies
FUNDING
Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest; Michigan Medical Device Accelerator; University of Michigan, Cente
Inhaled Oxytocin

Inhaled Oxytocin

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE
Applications Every year, over 100,000 women die of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a condition of excessive blood loss after childbirth. Although PPH can be effectively prevented or treated with ...Read More
Last Update: 6.19.13
TYPE
Treatment
STAGE
Early R&D
FUNDING
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Intra-abdominal balloon device

Intra-abdominal balloon device

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: ATONIC UTERUS
Application Designed for clinical or home use in low-resource settings ;   Advantages Low cost; Can be inserted for a few hours to a few days; Easy t...Read More
Last Update: 9.12.13
TYPE
Treatment
STAGE
Prototype
FUNDING
None found.
ITW Ultrasound

ITW Ultrasound

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: MULTIPLE CONDITIONS
Applications Low-cost ultrasound model for bringing training, technology and ultrasound diagnosis to the point of care in rural areas for purpose of giving advance warning of life-threatening m...Read More
Last Update: 10.23.13
TYPE
Diagnostic, Prevention, Treatment
STAGE
Field/clinical studies
FUNDING
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Kanga cloth

Kanga cloth

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: ATONIC UTERUS
Application Used by midwives and traditional birth attendants in low-resource settings (study conducted on Kangas in Tanzania);   Advantages Low cost; Produced ...Read More
Last Update: 9.12.13
TYPE
Diagnostic
STAGE
Field/clinical studies
FUNDING
Kit to predict Preterm Birth and Postpartum Recovery

Kit to predict Preterm Birth and Postpartum Recovery

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: PREMATURITY
Ashish Ganguly and colleagues from the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology in India will make an affordable paper-based diagnostic to quickly and precisely measure plasma gelsolin levels in expe...Read More
Last Update: 7.1.13
TYPE
Prevention
STAGE
Early R&D
FUNDING
Lactate Measurement in Amniotic Fluid

Lactate Measurement in Amniotic Fluid

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: PREMATURITY
  Eva Wiberg-Itzel of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden proposes to develop an easy and informative test which measures the concentration of lactate in the amniotic fluid of laboring wome...Read More
Last Update: 7.1.13
TYPE
Diagnostic
STAGE
Early R&D
FUNDING
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Lifelens

Lifelens

CONDITION(S) ADDRESSED: MALARIA
Application Designed for use in low-resource settings Advantage Can be used by anyone who can operate a basic mobile phone; Single phone can be used to diagnose numerous indiv...Read More
Last Update: 9.12.13
TYPE
Diagnostic
STAGE
Prototype
FUNDING
Microsoft's Imagine Cup Grant