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In 2007, the CUREs Business Plan Competition at Duke University awarded ImaGyn the top prize of $100,000 to fight cervical cancer in the developing world. The model below describes the winning business concept. Today, the initiative lives on under the guidance of Family Health Ministries. Please visit the FHM website to support the ongoing effort.
ImaGyn seeks concerned gynecologists in the US to purchase and donate units to their counter parts in the developing world.
As the co-ordinator in this process, ImaGyn works both to develop the cerviScope, a portable colposcope, in conjunction with Family Health Ministries, and to develop a peer-to-peer network of donor and user doctors.
We seek to match donors in the developed world individually with their counterparts in the developing world. ImaGyn will facilitate feedback from the developing world to show that the devices sent out have had impact.
The ultimate beneficiaries of this process are the women in the developing world, where 80% of the 260,000 deaths per year due to cervical cancer occur.