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India's largest state, Rajasthan, has an estimated 70,000 zero-dose childrenthat's one for each of the country's 1.1 million children, per the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
The state is also home to the world's third-largest community health workforce, per Quartz, and it's all thanks to an app called Kushi Baby.
The nonprofit founded in 2014 has spent 200,000 hours learning how to build a digital health platform for community health systems, and the Community Integrated Platform (CHIP) was first used as a community-based surveillance tool for COVID-19 in 2020.
Since then, it has evolved to be used for several different purposes, including conducting a digital health census, conducting follow-up of primary health care across different programs such as family planning, maternal and child health workers, and more.
It's all thanks to an app called Kushi Baby that's been in use for more than a year by community health workers, who spend up to 20 hours a month on a mix of paper and digital reporting across fragmented primary health programs.
"I am very grateful for the data integration feature of the app that saves a lot of time collecting duplicate data for different health programs and also gives me a due list of newborn children whose
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