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LinuxDevices: Linux, Opera Help Fight HIV AIDS in Malawi

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“Opera Software reports that Linux and the Opera browser are
being used by a non-government organization combatting HIV AIDs in
Malawi. The Baobab Health Partnership runs Opera in fullscreen
‘kiosk’ mode on low-powered, Linux-based network terminals used to
register new patients and track patient treatments.

“The Baobab Health Partnership said it chose to develop its
medical information system as a Web application to ensure that it
can be ‘easily scaled up across an entire country, and perhaps an
entire continent,’ according to Founder Gerry Douglas…”

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