By creating a complete solution to bring health to populations living in remote and difficult to access regions, which can be produced locally, the solution created by the team perfectly adheres to the theme of challenge #6, which is about the impacts of COVID-19 on United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
More specifically, our solution positively impacts several SDGs, more specifically the following goals:
3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including protection from financial risk, access to quality essential health services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and essential vaccines for all; 3.d Strengthen the capacity of all countries, particularly developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and national and global health risk management; 9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and cross-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on equitable and affordable access for all; 9.a Facilitate the development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure in developing countries, through greater financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states
Our team was inspired by the loss of human life in remote regions of Brazil, where the population has great difficulty in accessing basic health services. Even so, COVID-19 has reached these communities, claiming the lives of many people. To save these lives we created our project.
As the problems are urgent, we are looking for quick and effective solutions so that the tests reach these people and present reliable results for monitoring the disease in the region. With data from space agencies to map and locate these communities in remote areas, coupled with the science of molecular testing for COVID-19 and with technology for the construction of mobile laboratories and the use of drones, our project delivers a complete solution for the reach the most distant populations.
We use data from SEDAC to validate our hypothesis that the virus has already arrived in more distant regions. Our solution includes hardware in the form of mobile labs and drones adapted for carrying molecular tests of COVID-19. In terms of software, we developed an app for mapping regions and collecting data. We faced some challenges to find data that would prove that COVID-19 is already reaching these regions, but we managed to cross some data to get that answer.
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7. REFERÊNCIAS: LISTE OS DADOS E RECURSOS USADOS NO SEU PROJETO
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/maps/gallery/search/5?facets=region:south%20america
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
https://bigdata-covid19.icict.fiocruz.br/nota_tecnica_3.pdf
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2020/05/11/coronavirus-Latin-America-Amazon-indigenous-communities
https://g1.globo.com/google/amp/ce/ceara/noticia/2020/05/30/ceara-concentra-quase-10percent-dos-casos-de-covid-19-em-indigenas-no-brasil.ghtml#aoh=15909622219858&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=Fonte%3A%20%251%24s
https://epoca.globo.com/sociedade/em-meio-subnotificacoes-de-casos-coronavirus-avanca-na-area-de-indios-isolados-24452885