The social stigma around HIV/AIDS is limiting the access to sexual diagnosis for marginalized communities in developing nations due to social instability and lack of privacy, resulting in those seeking health care to be most vulnerable. Those groups include women, homosexuals, and transsexuals. On a much broader scale, the HIV/AIDS and STI pandemic is also set in motion of a vicious cycle. By killing people in their most productive years, it increases poverty, reverses progress in education, lowers labor productivity, threatens food security and slows economic growth. These setbacks bring forth the epidemic and undermine prevention and treatment efforts as a whole.
This is why we founded Cumasu, a mobile platform that allows users to make real-time appointment requests with the right clinics via SMS for discretion while utilizing the technology to aid partnered clinics to be more data-driven in improving their outreach program and ultimately their target communities. The platform will also aid doctors in keeping track of medical records on each patient to make sure it ensures continuity of care for the patient.
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