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Blood pressure and diabetes
Your trends between appointments, read every day by a nurse-led desk, so a rising number becomes a phone call.
01 Mobile Health Units
Your baseline, refreshed near you.
A Mobile Health Unit re-measures your vitals every quarter on Premium, twice a year on JiVa Care, at 34 partner facilities across Kenya.
01 Decentralised care
Your care team, online.
The band connects you to nurses and doctors on JiVa Care, or trainers and nutritionists on Premium. Consult from wherever you are, and visit a clinic only when it matters.
Nurse desk, Nairobi
02 The idea
Chronic disease is caught late, at the most expensive moment. The JiVa Band reads your body around the clock. A care team reads the band, and calls you first. That is the whole idea.
03 Life with JiVa
Worn through the day. Read all night.
One band for a parent with high blood pressure, a daughter who trains, and the family that wants to know they are both all right.
02
For a parent
Even when you cannot be there, nurses follow their numbers around the clock and call them first.
03
Everyday fitness
More than sixty sports tracked automatically, with strain, recovery and sleep in one place.
Every member gets the JiVa Band, a programme and a community. Nothing to pay today.
Become a member →04 How it fits together
One band. A whole care system around it.
On your wrist
The JiVa Band reads ECG, heart rate, oxygen, temperature, sleep and activity around the clock and sends it to your care team.
On your phone
Nurses and doctors on JiVa Care, trainers and nutritionists on Premium. They read your data with you, online, and call you first when something changes.
In your town
A Mobile Health Unit refreshes your baseline every quarter on Premium, twice a year on JiVa Care, at 34 partner facilities across Kenya. Find your nearest site →
Explore
Everything, one tap away.
05The JiVa BandScreenless, swim-proof, read around the clock.→
06The JiVa Labs AppYour body, in plain language.→
07JiVa PremiumPersonalised health plans and performance optimisation.→
08Programmes and how to joinJiVa Care, Premium, and how to join today.→
09Why JiVaChronic disease is caught late. We built JiVa Labs to find it first.→
10A letter from our founderWhy we are building JiVa Labs, in our founder's words.→
11Who it is forFive groups, one platform.→
12Find your nearest site34 partner facilities across Kenya.→
13In the pipelineJiVa Athletes and what comes next.→
14Our partnersThe clinics, hospitals and insurers we deliver JiVa with.→
15Who we areFounded at Stanford; a team from four cities on three continents.→
16Where we areAhmedabad, Mumbai, Nairobi, Mombasa, Palo Alto.→
17Become a memberThe JiVa Band, a programme and a community. Nothing to pay today.→
05 The platform
The JiVa Band. A care team on your wrist.
Screenless, swim-proof and light enough to forget. It measures what matters, every minute of every day, and sends it to people who know what to do with it.
01 Designed to disappear
No screen. No distractions. Just signal.
A woven strap, an alloy frame and nothing to charge every night. Wear it to work, to sleep and into the pool.
About 25 g5 ATM, swim-gradeScreenless
02 ECG and temperature
Touch the plate. Read your heart.
The engraved metal plate is an ECG electrode running on a Texas Instruments sensor chip. Touch it for a heart-rhythm reading, while contact sensors track skin temperature all day.
ECGSkin temperature
03 24/7 automatic monitoring
Reads you around the clock.
An optical sensor tuned for every skin tone measures heart rate, heart-rate variability, blood oxygen, stress and blood-pressure trends, day and night, with no buttons to press.
Heart rateHRVSpO2Blood-pressure trendsStress
04 Weeks, not hours
Charge it at lunch. Wear it for weeks.
Up to 10 days of continuous monitoring and up to 60 days of everyday use on a single charge. It snaps onto a magnetic charger and buzzes when something needs your attention.
Up to 60 daysMagnetic chargingVibration alerts
05 Every reading has a reader
The band measures. The care team acts.
Readings stream to your app and to a nurse-led monitoring desk. A sustained change triggers a call, a check at a Mobile Health Unit, and a clinic visit if it is needed. The band monitors; your clinician diagnoses.
Emergency alertsNurse reviewMobile Health Units
Built for all-day accuracy
A Nordic Bluetooth processor, a Bosch 6-axis motion sensor and a Texas Instruments ECG chip, sealed in an alloy frame.
24/7
60days
Everyday battery
Up to 10 days of continuous monitoring.
5ATM
Swim-grade
Water resistant to 50 metres.
25g
Featherweight
40 × 29.5 × 11.5 mm.
7colours
A strap for everyone
Soft, breathable woven nylon. Midnight now; six more coming soon.
Seven colourways. One engraving.
Every JiVa Band carries the JIVA mark on its ECG plate. Midnight is available now. The other six colourways are coming soon.
Midnight
Midnight available now · other colourways coming soon
Midnight ships now; more colourways are coming soon. Every band carries the same engraving.
Become a member →06 The JiVa Labs App
Your body, in plain language.
Everything the band measures, explained, trended and shared with your care team the moment it matters. Next, in development: a personal AI that learns what is normal for you.
The app comes with every membership, on iOS and Android. Jiva AI, Fuel and Hub are in development and arrive as free updates.
Become a member →07 JiVa Premium Coming soon
JıVaPREMIUM
Premium. Personalised health plans and performance optimisation.
Everything in the JiVa Labs App, plus a named care team who write your plan, read your data and measure your progress against the day you joined.
01
A named nurse who knows you.
One person holds your membership, reviews every reading and is the voice on the phone when something changes.
02
Your whole care team
A doctor approves your plan, a trainer writes your programme and a nutritionist writes your meal plan.
03
Measured against your baseline
Progress is shown as clinical change since your first screening, never against yesterday.
04
Quarterly screenings
A full check at a Mobile Health Unit: vitals, body composition, ECG and point-of-care bloods.
05
Care that comes to you
On Premium Medical, a nurse visits you at home once a month, your medicines are delivered and a doctor sees you online every month.
06
A human first. Always.
No alarming alert reaches you, or your family, before a nurse has reviewed it and spoken to you.
Premium Wellness to stay well. Premium Medical when you want care to come to you. Premium opens after JiVa Care; we will tell members first.
Join JiVa Care today →08 Programmes
Two pathways. One platform.
Decentralised care for people living with chronic disease. Decentralised wellness for everyone who wants to stay ahead of it. Your clinical baseline on day one decides which: a chronic condition means JiVa Care, no condition means Premium Wellness. JiVa Care is open today, directly through Bliss Healthcare. Premium opens next.
JıVaCARE
For hypertension, diabetes, heart and kidney risk
JiVa Care
Continuous monitoring between clinic visits, read by nurses around the clock, so a rising reading becomes a phone call, not an admission.
- JiVa Band and the JiVa Labs App
- 24/7 review by a nurse-led monitoring desk
- Emergency alerts and a clear escalation path to your clinic
- A weekly health report
- Regular health checks on a Mobile Health Unit
- Medicines delivered, home blood tests, an online doctor and quarterly screening at home on JiVa Care Plus (coming soon)
Decentralised care
Become a member →
JıVaPREMIUM
For individuals, families, teams and athletes
Premium Coming soon
Personalised health plans and performance optimisation, built by a care team around your own baseline and delivered wherever you are.
- JiVa Band and the JiVa Labs App with 24/7 monitoring
- A named nurse, a trainer and a nutritionist
- Personal training and nutrition plans
- A clinical baseline at onboarding, then quarterly screenings
- Weekly and monthly reports, and member events
- Home visits, doctor consults and medicines delivered on Premium Medical
Decentralised wellness
Join JiVa Care today →
How to join.
Today, you join directly through Bliss Healthcare and pay for your programme out of pocket. A Star Discover Insurance plan with JiVa built in is coming. Whichever route you take, you get the same band, app and care team.
SHAWhen the Star route goes live, a Star plan with JiVa built in will replace your current medical cover. SHA stays, and nothing SHA covers is ever billed twice.
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Directly through Bliss Healthcare Live
Subscribe to any JiVa programme through Bliss Healthcare, monthly or prepaid for less, including by M-PESA. Companies that keep their current insurer join this way too. Sign up online here, or when our team reaches you through a partner clinic. No insurance involved. The JiVa Labs online shop is coming soon.
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With Star Discover Insurance Coming soon
A complete health plan from Star with JiVa care built in, replacing your current medical scheme. Star health insurance package for anyone; Star SHA+ for SHA members, net of what SHA already covers. We will tell members when it opens.
Not sure which package? Pick the closest fit. Our team talks it through with you before anything is set up.
Become a member →09 Why JiVa
Health systems pay for illness after it arrives. We built JiVa Labs to find it first.
Chronic disease is now the world's leading cause of death, and most of it is caught late: at the emergency room, the dialysis chair, the intensive care bed. That is the most expensive moment to meet a patient, for the patient, the clinic and the insurer.
2/3
of the world's death and disability now comes from chronic, noncommunicable disease. Global Burden of Disease, 2023.
0million
people died from chronic disease across Africa in 2023. More than half of those deaths are linked to risk factors that can be changed.
0%
of Africa's chronic-disease deaths are linked to high blood pressure, the single largest risk factor, and one whose trend the JiVa Band tracks around the clock.
Sources: IHME, Global Burden of Disease Study 2023, The Lancet, October 2025; GBD 2023 Africa NCD Collaborators, The Lancet Global Health, 2026.
389:1
What reactive care costs, in one number.
In Kenya, the national payer spends 389 times more to dialyse one kidney patient for a year than it spends looking for the hypertension that put them there. Cancer, heart and kidney disease make up 13.8% of claims but 44.9% of the cost. The pattern repeats in health systems everywhere.
Source: Social Health Authority claims data, July 2025 to April 2026, as reported by Daily Nation and The Star, May 2026.
Everyone pays for finding it late.
01
Patients
Diagnosed after the damage is done, facing catastrophic bills, lost income and years of treatment that earlier care would have avoided.
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Providers
Clinics see a patient at a short visit, then lose sight of them until the next crisis. There is no signal between visits.
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Insurers and payers
Claims arrive as expensive, unpredictable emergencies. Medical loss ratios climb, and the preventive benefits meant to stop them go unused.
Our mission
Put continuous, clinically read monitoring on every person living with chronic disease, through the clinics and insurers that already care for them.
Our vision
One million members across Africa by 2031, and the continent's first longitudinal health record built underneath them. Proactive health, clinical precision, financial freedom.
Why now
Continuous care finally costs less than crisis care.
01
Sensors got small
ECG, oxygen and heart-rhythm sensing that once lived in hospitals now fits in a 25 gram band.
02
Everyone is connected
A phone in every pocket, and SMS for those without one, carries readings to a care team in seconds.
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Payers need it
Rising chronic claims make prevention the fastest route to healthier loss ratios.
Prevention only works if it is worn every day. That is what a membership is for.
Become a member →10 Letter
Knowing your own blood pressure trend, your heart's rhythm, your sleep, should not be a luxury good. That is the gap JiVa Labs is built to close.Arjun Prakash, Founder and Managing Director
11 Who it is for
Built for everyone managing their health.
Five groups, one platform, each with the right level of care.
01 · JiVa Care
People living with chronic disease
Hypertension, diabetes, heart and kidney risk, monitored between visits instead of only at them.
02 · Premium for your company
Corporate employees
Premium for the whole workforce, with onboarding in your first week and Mobile Health Unit screenings at the office.
03 · Premium for yourself
Young athletes
Training load, sleep and recovery tracked from a young age, with a trainer, nutritionist and clinician on call.
04 · Premium
Everyday wellness
No diagnosis, just a wish to know your numbers and keep them where they belong, with a plan written for you.
05 · For partners
Insurers and payers
A cohort view of enrolment, engagement, clinical outcomes and attributable savings. Prevention you can measure against your loss ratio.
Starting in East Africa. Built for the world.
2026
Kenya
Launching in Nairobi and Mombasa.
Next
Tanzania and Zanzibar
The second market, already piloting.
Then
East Africa
Reference deployments open neighbouring markets.
2031
One million members
Across Africa, on one longitudinal health record.
12 Screening and onboarding sites
Find your nearest site.
34 partner facilities across Kenya host Mobile Health Unit screenings and member onboarding. Type your town, or use your location, and we will show the three closest.
All 34 sites by region
Opening hours and contacts are as published by the facilities and may change. Nothing you type here is stored.
13 In the pipeline
JiVa Athletes. World-class support, wherever talent grows.
A fourteen-year-old tennis player in Nairobi has the talent. What she rarely has is a nutritionist, a strength coach and a sports clinician watching her training load. JiVa Premium brings that team to her, through freelance professionals and her band.
Under $30a month for a full performance team
01NutritionistFuel and growth
02TrainerStrength and load
03ClinicianInjury and screening
04Recovery dataSleep, HRV, strain
Decentralised care
For chronic patients, the clinic comes to the wrist and the Mobile Health Unit comes to the neighbourhood.
Decentralised wellness
For athletes and everyone chasing better health, elite coaching stops depending on where you were born.
Also coming
USSD and SMS access for members without a smartphone
Continuous glucose monitoring for diabetics
A Diabetes Package
Senior Care, for a parent
A partner network for trainers and nutritionists
14 Our partners
Our partners.
The clinics, hospitals and insurers we build and deliver JiVa with across Kenya.
15 Who we are
Who we are.
Founded by students from Stanford University.
Our team brings together engineers and clinicians from IIT Bombay, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Stanford Medicine and Strathmore University, working from Nairobi, Mumbai and Palo Alto.
Node 01 / 04 · Palo Alto, United States
Where JiVa Labs was founded.
Students of economics, human biology, management science and bioengineering at Stanford University, with clinicians from Stanford Medicine.
Node 02 / 04 · Mumbai, India
Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Our Indian operations run from Mumbai and Ahmedabad, where the hardware and the platform behind the band are built.
Node 03 / 04 · Melbourne, Australia
Engineers and clinicians from Melbourne.
From the University of Melbourne and Monash University, on the clinical and data side of the programme.
Node 04 / 04 · Nairobi, Kenya
Home base.
Clinicians and operators from Strathmore University, the nurse desk that reads every member's band, and the first members in Nairobi and Mombasa.
16 Where we are
Where we are.
17 Join
Become a JiVa Labs member.
Every member gets the JiVa Band, a place in one of our programmes, community event alerts and the information to manage your health better. When the product is ready, our team will get back to you: delivered straight to your home, or fitted at a partner clinic in Nairobi.