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...
View ArticleMonitoring 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...
View ArticlePhones 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...
View ArticleSMS 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleEpiSurveyor 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...
View ArticleSURE - 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...
View ArticleSMS 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...
View ArticleSMS 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...
View ArticleReduced 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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