in the field
Established in 2016, HERhealthEQ was born out of a need to reduce the equity gap in access to healthcare for women around the world. What began as a singular donation of a mammogram machine to a Costa Rican hospital, has now grown into an international web of healthcare solutions.
by the numbers
156,000+ women impacted
deployed in
13 countries
67 pieces of equipment placed
$333k+ equipment value
where we need your help
HERhealthEQ is expanding into new regions from H2 2026 - 2027. Help us reach women in the countries below:
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Heart Disease
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Medellin Colombia, Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe
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6 pieces of equipment: 2 x EKG machines, 2 x Stress test equipment kits, 1 x Cardiac Doppler, 1 x PFT machine.
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Expand services and provide outreach opportunities to rural clinics that can use the equipment for heart health screenings.
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Cervical Cancer & Breast Cancer.
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Madesh province, Janakpur, Nepal.
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1 x Colposcope, 1 × 3D Mammogram.
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The colposcope will expand in-house clinical services at the Binaytara Health Clinic, serving patients who previously traveled 8–10 hours to reach the nearest cancer hospital. The mammogram will enable diagnostic-grade breast imaging at the clinic.
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Maternal Health.
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Sierra Leone.
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20 x hand-held or cart based Ultrasounds.
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Provide regional hospitals and clinics with much needed screening technology to reduce maternal mortality rates.
where we are
Nigeria
Condition: Maternal health
Equipment: Butterfly IQ Ultrasound Probes
Partners: SDG Office of Nigeria, The Permanent Secretary & The Ministry of Health.
Launched: 2025
Women impacted: 16,950
Deployed 10 portable Butterly-IQ ultrasound probes in Lagos, Nigeria. HERhealthEQ partnered with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Office Nigeria, the Permanent Secretary, the Ministry of Health and local advisors on this project. Both public and private hospitals received the devices.
HERhealthEQ is expanding this program to include 20 new probes by the end of 2026.
costa rica
Condition: Breast & Cervical Cancer
Equipment: Mammography machine and LT-300 Colposcopes
Partners: Hospital Coronado, Hologic, Coyol FTZ
Launched: 2013 & 2023
Women impacted: 71,606
HERhealthEQ partnered with Hologic, placing mammography machine with a remote hospital in Costa Rica. Metrics show a 400% increase in mammograms performed in the Limón region, with 18,000+ women in Costa Rica screened using this equipment. In 2023, we returned to place 10 colposcopes in the Coronado system, screening 10,000+ women since inception.
Burkina Faso
Condition: Cervical Cancer
Equipment: Colposcopes & Cryotherapy machine
Partners: MedGyn, The Kimi Fondation
Launched: 2021
Women impacted: 11,150
In partnership with Jhpiego International, MedGyn and the Kimi Foundation, HERhealthEQ delivered two pieces of equipment into the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU, University Hospital Center) of Bogodogo in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; One video Colposcopy device and one Cryotherapy unit.
The colposcope is used to detect precancerous cervical lesions, enabling local women to be treated early thus optimizing their treatment efficacy. Over 3K women have been screened since implementation.
ghana
Condition: Cervical Cancer
Equipment: LT-300 Colposcopes
Partners: Lutech Medical & Ages LTD.
Year: 2024
Women impacted: 31,000
In partnership with Lutech Medical and Ages Ltd., HERhealthEQ donated 10 LT-300 colposcopes to public hospitals in rural Ghana. Over 7000 women were able to participate in cervical cancer screenings in the first few months of use.
HERhealthEQ is expanding this program to target breast cancer by the end of 2026.
Jamaica
Condition: Maternal Health & Cervical Cancer
Equipment: Ultrasound machine and LT-300 Colposcopes
Partners: Esaote
Launched: 2018
Women impacted: 15,906
HERhealthEQ partnered with Esaote North America to deploy an ultrasound machine. As of 2019 the hospital is conducting an average of 2000 deliveries/year, with 105 OBGYN and 19 non-OB ultrasounds conducted. The Hospital is now assisting 20 external healthcare centers, assisting women planning to have home births with prenatal screening. HERhealthEQ also facilitated the donation of a fetal monitor to the same healthcare system.
Through 2017 and 2018, HERHealthEQ also partnered with Lutech Medical to place a colposcope in the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital, a Jamaican hospital that serves a population of over 150,000 patients, received the equipment. Despite serving a vast portion of Western Jamaica, including the 20 local primary care health centers that feed into the hospital, the hospital lacks many of the necessary resources to treat such a large population.
Vietnam
Condition: Cervical Cancer
Equipment: Thermoablation machine
Partners: CureCervicalCancer
Launched: 2019
Women impacted: 359
HERhealthEQ partnered with CureCervicalCancer (CCC) to deliver 3 thermal ablation devices to the Hue province of rural Vietnam in August 2019 to 3 individual clinics. The thermoablation devices assist in the treatment of early stage cervical cancer.
mexico
Condition: Maternal Health
Equipment: Butterfly IQ Ultrasound Probes
Partners: Cluster Medico Jalisco
Year: 2024
Women impacted: 18,895
10 portable ultrasounds have been deployed in and around the Guadalajara region of Mexico. These critical maternal health devices will be distributed to public health clinics in the region. We partnered with Cluster Medico Jalisco, local doctors and healthcare practitioners to identify sites that would best benefit from these devices. We aim to impact over 100 women per site, per month, once fully executed
HERhealthEQ is expanding this program to include 5-15 additional probes by the end of 2027.
Tanzania
Condition: Maternal Health & Cervical Cancer
Equipment: Ultrasound machine and LT-300 Colposcopes
Partners: Esaote
Launched: 2018
Women impacted: 15,906
HERhealthEQ donated equipment to detect and treat cervical cancer in 5 major geographic areas in Tanzania - Kilimanjaro, Tanga, Singida, Mwanza, and Kigoma - addressing the country’s 38% rate of cervical cancer. HERhealthEQ partnered with MedGyn Products, Inc. and Tanzanian company, SkyConnect to donate the equipment, and cervical cancer screening platform, SEVIA. In January 2022, HERhealthEQ launched a second project, deploying two Lutech Colposcopes and two Wisap Thermoablation devices. The WAJAMAMA Clinic in Zanzibar, Tanzania, will be able to screen and treat 250 women per quarter. Nearly 1K women have been impacted by these projects so far.
extended impact
Condition: Various
Equipment: Fetal monitor, medical supplies & more
Partners: Plan A Health, Association Lyon-Ukraine, Henry Schein, UPS, Advocates for World Health
Launched: 2021 & 2022
Women impacted: 4,975
HERhealthEQ has partnered with various projects of extended impact, including the deployment of a Lutech Fetal monitor to Plan A Health, a rural organization based in Mississippi, USA. Additionally, 3 boxes of excess medical supplies were donated to support the relief effort at the main hospital of Kharkiv, Ukraine. This was made possible with our partners at Association Lyon-Ukraine, Henry Schein and UPS. We also partnered with Advocates for World Health to deploy more excess medical supplies around the world.
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