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Opera Helps Fight Against HIV in Malawi
By: Sharon Khare   |   Mar 23, 2007
Opera and Baobab Health Partnership have tied up to provide innovative technology solutions to help combat HIV in developing countries.

Founded by Gerry Douglas and Dr. Thuy Bui in late 2000, Baobab Health Partnership was as a direct result of their work with the health care system in Malawi between 1995 and 1997.

Using the Opera browser, Baobab has produced a healthcare system that allows health workers to administer high quality HIV treatment programs according to World Health Organization guidelines. The Baobab solution is a slimmed-down touchscreen computer running Linux and Opera. Baobab maintains that it chose to use Opera because it conserves limited system resources while being able to run a user interface so simple that people who have never operated a computer before can use it to provide quality health care treatment.

The system is currently deployed in Malawi, a country in the midst of an HIV crisis.

"There are 40 million people living with HIV on our planet, we need solutions, and we need them fast if we are going to have an impact on this crisis," said Gerry Douglas, Founder, Baobab Health Partnership. "Using Opera means we can rely on international standards like HTML and JavaScript without requiring expensive hardware. By building our system for the browser it can be easily scaled up across an entire country, and perhaps an entire continent."

"The reason many of us find working in technology so worthwhile is seeing projects like this become reality," said Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera. "We're excited that Baobab chose Opera to make a difference in the ongoing fight against HIV in Africa. This is a first step towards using Opera to power the projects that promote progress in the developing world."
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