$17M Grant from Gates Foundation Funds Program for Women’s Health

UBC researchers have received a $17 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This funding aids a program to treat women in the developing world for preeclampsia, the onset of high blood pressure during pregnancy. While preeclampsia is easily treatable, it is fatal for many women who are not properly diagnosed or transported to appropriate facilities. Through this program, a health worker can visit a woman in her home, test her blood and urine, and input the information into a smartphone platform. The smartphone technology, developed by Mark Ansermino and Guy Dumont, helps the health worker to diagnose the condition, and decide whether to administer medication or take the woman to a hospital.

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Gates Foundation gives UBC researchers $17 million for pre-eclampsia trials, in The Vancouver Sun