ZMQ Development

ZMQ Development has 25 years of experience in building Technology for Development (#T4D) solutions with a #Digital Transformative approach. It has been working with last-mile under privileged communities globally – in India, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal in Asia; Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda in East Africa and; more recently in Senegal and Mali in Francophone Africa. ZMQ Global has created its Africa office in Kampala in Uganda as Qaff Africa Foundation Ltd. (Qaff) to design, develop & implement localized T4D solutions for Africa. We will develop system changing digital tools & solutions for Health, Livelihood, Education, Agriculture, Climate-Change Impact & other sustainable development issues. We have recently delivered Tuberculosis Platform for integrated Adherence to National TB and Leprosy Program, Uganda. Also, we have piloted MIRA, a last-mile #mHealth Platform on Prenatal & Postnatal care, Routine immunization and Adolescent health in Jinja District. The digital tools are contextualized and are built in local languages like Luganda, Lusogo, Runyikole, Rutoro and English (Uganda). We work closely with communities & local expertise for designing & developing the technologies. Qaff invites local organizations & development initiatives in Africa for partnership and supporting them reach and connect with the communities for addressing critical developmental challenges. Hilmi Quraishi Subhi Quraishi SRIKRISHNA S R Ilmana Fasih Women of Uganda Network Philips Foundation Johnson & Johnson The Global Fund Stop TB Partnership Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance UNICEF Innovation UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency #MCH #mHealth #Tuberculosis #Immunization #livelihood #Africa

Audiogenics! In 2024, Globally Childhood Pneumonia claimed lives of over 502,000 children under the age of 5, that is one child every 57 seconds (duly corrected as per Leith Greenslade as per 2021). The 2 most important ways to avert Childhood #Pneumonia deaths in low-resource settings is by creating awareness about causes, signs & symptoms and by making available high precision diagnostics tools in low-resource settings Chest Radiography is not available in low-resource settings. It can be expensive to upkeep, and does not provide information about the causes of the pneumonia. This problem is further exacerbated by the increasing recognition that childhood pneumonia is multi-pathogenic. Also for children below 6 months (especially 0-2months) it is difficult to perform Chest Radiography. Also, availability of beta-lactam antibiotics like – amoxicillin, cefuroxime & cefdinir and availability of oxygen therapy at village health centers are essential.   What is Audiogenics? ZMQ Global along with its AI4Dev Lab at ZMQ Development has developed a new AI based toolkit using Deep Learning Algorithms to diagnose Childhood Pneumonia, especially in children below 0-2 months and 2-12 months. Audiogenics captures crying, coughing and talking voices of neonatal. The toolkit is able to identify cases of Pneumonia and Severe Pneumonia Bacterial Infection (PSBI) with over 82% accuracy. We are running a study in Nuh District, Mumbra-Kausa in Thane, Shravasti in Uttar Pradesh and Jehangir Puri in Delhi though our field teams and ASHA workers. We are working to improve its accuracy of diagnosis from 82.3% (with 5000 training data) to over 95% (with over 50,000 training data). We will be happy to partner with organizations globally to test the toolkit and improve its accuracy of diagnosis.  #AI4Dev #AI4Good #Pneumonia #DeepLearning Every Breath Counts Coalition Leith Greenslade Hilmi Quraishi Ilmana Fasih CEIMIA