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Mobile Technology to Fight Fake Drugs

Country:  Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya Activities: mPedigree developed a SMS-based system to fight the exploding appearance of counterfeit drugs in developing countries. The scratch card method reveals a...

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Monitoring Access to Healthcare

Country:  Ghana Activities: The Ghanaian government instituted a National Health Insurance Scheme in 2003 to remove the financial barriers to quality health care for the poor. The 2-year project...

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Phones for Health

Country:  Rwanda Activities: The system was designed to collect, store, retrieve, and disseminate critical programme, drug, and patient information related to HIV/AIDS care and treatment. It allows...

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SMS for Life

Country:  Tanzania Activities: This initiative uses a combination of mobile phones, SMS messages and electronic mapping technology to generate information on stock availability of Artemisinin-based...

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The Uganda Health Information Network (UHIN)

Country:  Uganda Activities: Since 2003, 175 remote health facilities serving more than 1.5 million people are able to send and receive data and medical updates using PDAs. The system is used to...

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EpiSurveyor Mobile Health Data Collection

Country:  170 countries including Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, India, Pakistan, Phillipines, Nicaragua, Brazil, Indonesia Activities: EpiSurveyor is a free mobile phone- and web-based data...

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SURE - Securing Ungandans' Rights to Essential Medicines

Country:  Uganda Activities: "In June 2010, the SURE Program in partnership with the SPS project pioneered the use of mobile phones in collection of facility data for Presidential Malaria Initiative...

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SMS to Reach Remote Health Workers

Country:  Kenya Activities: Capacity Kenya had to manage and communicate with over 700 health workers hired under a rapid hiring plan and deployed to remote villages. Communication needs such as...

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SMS for Life

Country:  Ghana Activities: This initiative uses a combination of mobile phones, SMS messages, a configurable campaign management platform and electronic mapping technology to generate information on...

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Reduced test reporting timeline for HIV-positive babies

Country:  Kenya Activities: Up to now it can take three months before results from HIV tests would be reported. For a baby such a long delay in starting treament is fatal. In order to dramatically...

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