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Dec 8, 2012: Bill Gates, the American business magnate and philanthropist, tweeted about how Microsoft Research has partnered with Operation ASHA in India to fight Tuberculosis. Microsoft [...]

Operation ASHA secured second position in SlideRocket’s “Make An Impact” Contest with over 10,000 unique views and were awarded $5000 to commence our work in Vietnam.

Operation ASHA was selected as one of the top 30 mHealth Innovators in 2012 by the mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation. The impact of this technology on the poorest of the poor comes [...]

OpASHA was chosen as one of the finalists in the Vodafone Mobiles for Good competition. SMS GupShup, a new social networking platform in India has awarded us with 400,000 free text messages using [...]

OpASHA won the Jury’s Distinction Award for using Internet, Mobile and Social Media for Creating Awareness Around Tuberculosis and was chosen as one of the finalists for its Innovative [...]

“Excellent Idea of the  day: TB Tracker Halts Disease’s Spread” By Jesse Emspak Nov 29, 2012

Written by Audrey Markoff for Microsoft, New England Research and Development center blog. In Boston we don’t think aboutTuberculosis (TB) often, if at all. Like most Americans, you were probably [...]

Written by Bill Thies, Researcher, Microsoft Research India for their blog. In India, I have seen first-hand the faces of those stricken by tuberculosis (TB), one of the world’s deadliest [...]

Battling Tuberculosis Through Microsoft Technology

Nisha lives at the end of a row in the slums of Meethapur. Just beyond her house lie dusty fields interspersed with green pools of stagnant water, filled with rubbish. Dogs lie in the shade, [...]