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Aaroogya

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Democratising Healthcare till Last Mile

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The Problem – 7 out of 10 women die due to late detection of Breast, Oral and Cervical cancers in developing countriesLack of skilled manpower, data, infrastructure, accessibility, and personal – social unawareness and ignorance leads to the invisible global emergency

Victims, Government, International and national organizations, technology and research companies, pharmaceuticals spend trillions yet result is not improving

Aaroogya is building a technology platform and toolkit for government and private frontline health workers in vernacular languages. This toolkit is being built with Oncologists, Technology leaders like CISCO, Social problem solvers like The Nudge, N/Core, IntelEhealth and Artificial Intelligence screening tool companies like Niramai

It is an inclusive solution for the semi- skilled frontline health- workers to carry out prevention protocols, relevant data collection about women’s (end customer) lifestyle, electronic health records, primary and secondary physical/ conventional and Artificial Intelligence driven simple screening for Breast, Cervical and Oral areas

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What is the problem you are solving?

1. Incidence - 7 out of 10 women cancers are detected in late stages of cancer in South east Asian countries. 1 woman dies of cervical cancer every 8 minutes and for every 2 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer 1 women dies of it in India. While in Developed countries where cancer is higher due to lifestyle, number of deaths are 2 out 10 due to early detection

2. Financial burden - from the customer/ patient’s perspective in India again as a case study, taking breast cancer, For instance, the average cost of treatment for breast cancer through a private practitioner would be Rs 0.5M or so and it would result in cure, saving the woman. However, six cycles of chemotherapy can cost more than Rs 3M, and the result will be the person low chances of cure in late stages.

3. Incidence & Projection of next 5 years - 2M new cases of cancers were registered in South East Asia in 2018 (Globocan), 1.35 M cases lost their lives (65%), 1.1 M are women cancer cases, highest numbers of cancers reported were breast, oral, lung, cervical, etc. Breast, Oral and cervical cancers are
the highest in numbers in women.

Who are you serving?

The platform is built with a dedicated Team of expert UX team from CISCO, IntelEhealth, Dailyhunt and N/core who are aggressively involving the users and taking their inputs - women & Frontline health workers to do the product design

1. With 400 health- workers, Aaroogya has worked with 51,500 women, 2987 cases were detected early (6 out of 100); which saved $146,363,000 and brought down the death rate to 4 out of 10 against 7 out 10

The 400 enabled Health workers shall reach 100,000 women in 5 years

We have been funded by CISCO, Niti Aayog (AIM) and N/Core for this innovation with $21,127 and we seek active collaborations and raise $422,535 for this year

2. The tool kit will be easy to use, low cost, easily distributable, and Operationally optimized doing prevention and detection of cancer from every doorstep

Users - Frontline Health workers and women will be the front face task force to use the platform and toolkit and represent our end customers - Women across South East Asia. They will be not overburdened with another work to do, but they will engage on a reward and recognition basis to stay morally, socially and personally motivated

What is your solution?

Aaroogya is building a technology platform and toolkit for women, government and private frontline health workers in vernacular languages. This toolkit is being built with Oncologists, Technology leaders like CISCO, Social problem solvers like The Nudge, N/Core, IntelEhealth and Artificial Intelligence screening tool companies like Niramai

It is an inclusive solution for women and the semi- skilled healthworkers to carry out prevention protocols, relevant data collection about women’s (end customer) lifestyle, electronic health records, primary and secondary physical/ conventional and Artificial Intelligence driven simple screening for Breast, Cervical and Oral areas

The working model enables capacity building, rewards and Recognitions for the health- workers who cater our end customers everyday

It is a real time analysis and reporting of the intervention which reduces detection time by 60%, lowers the cost by two third, and increases accessibility by 70%

An open source – Heat map/ Disease map based on primary data collection will be available to government, policy makers, International and national Civil Society organizations, tailored precision medicine pharmaceuticals, Insurance, research institutes, technology companies, and start- ups to build their solutions over this intellectual infrastructure

The tool kit will be easy to use, low cost, easily distributable, and Operationally optimized doing prevention and detection of cancer from every doorstep

We have been funded by CISCO, Niti Aayog (AIM) and N/Core for this innovation with $21,127 and we seek active collaborations and raise $422,535 for this year

Milestones achieved -

1. Impact So Far - 2987 cancer patients, 1759 breast cancer patients have been detected, 51,500 beneficiaries have been Cancer screened, Capacity Building of 400+ health workers in Bihar and Uttarakhand, 100+ awareness workshops, 24 Aaroogya Research and Public Health Fellows

2. So far, Aaroogya has worked in 5 States - in Uttarakhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi NCR and Meghalaya and 1 city Kolkata in West Bengal

3.Aaroogya was awarded - Top 50 healthcare leaders by International Forum in advancements of healthcare in 2018, Dubai, UAE

4.The organization have been awarded by Outlook Group ii 2019, New Delhi

5.WEFT, Women Entrepreneurs of the year 2019, Bangalore as youngest achievers felicitated the efforts

6.Best Non Fiction Documentary Movie by International Film Festival at Dehradun, 2018

7.Global and strong Advisory and governing Body

8.Model can be easily replicated across India and cross Borders

9. Incubated By CISCO and NITI Aayog in N/Core tech cohort 3 as Top 10 social innovation ventures in India

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Increase opportunities for people - especially those traditionally left behind and most marginalized – to access digital and 21st century skills, meet employer demands, and access the jobs of today and tomorrow
Upskill, reskill, or retrain workers in the industries most affected by technological transformations

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Our solution's stage of development:

Pilot