Opera and Baobab Health Partnership today joined forces to provide innovative technology solutions to help combat HIV in developing countries
Baobab, using the Opera browser, has produced a healthcare system that allows health workers to administer high quality HIV treatment programs according to World Health Organization guidelines. The system is currently deployed in Malawi, a country in the midst of an HIV crisis.
"There are 40 million people living with HIV on our planet, we need solutions, and we need them fast if we are going to have an impact on this crisis," said Gerry Douglas, Founder, Baobab Health Partnership. "Using Opera means we can rely on international standards like HTML and JavaScript without requiring expensive hardware. By building our system for the browser it can be easily scaled up across an entire country, and perhaps an entire continent."
The Baobab solution is a slimmed-down touchscreen computer running Linux and Opera. Baobab uses Opera because it conserves limited system resources while being able to run a user interface so simple that people who have never operated a computer before can use it to provide quality health care treatment.
"The reason many of us find working in technology so worthwhile is seeing projects like this become reality," said HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera. "We're excited that Baobab chose Opera to make a difference in the ongoing fight against HIV in Africa. This is a first step towards using Opera to power the projects that promote progress in the developing world" - Opera Software.
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