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Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria

Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria. Today, many health facilities suffer from stock-outs of essential medicines. Patient. Artemisinin: Plant Grow Harvest. Chemical process: Arte Lume. Tabletting & packa- ging of ACT’s. Ware- house. Distri- bution to countries.

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Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria

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  1. Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria

  2. Today, many health facilities suffer from stock-outs of essential medicines Patient • Artemisinin: • Plant • Grow • Harvest • Chemicalprocess: • Arte • Lume Tabletting& packa-ging ofACT’s Ware-house Distri-bution tocountries Countryware-house Districtdistri-bution HealthFacilities& HealthPosts Pharmaceutical Suppliers Procurement agents National Malaria Control Programs

  3. Solution/Process design criteria

  4. General process overview Collect health facility medicine stock levels and surveillance data via SMS/text message Provide reports via the internet, e-mail and mobile phone Send one SMS each week with medicine stock levels and one SMS each week with surveillance data Medicine stock level and surveillance data reports delivered via internet, smart phone and e-mail. Exceptionsdelivered via e-mail. District Management “SMS for Life” Hospitals Health Facilities Dispensaries "SMS for Life" l HF Training Kenya August 2011 The system must accept SMS messages from any mobile network

  5. The Tanzaniapilot: dramaticreductionof stock-outsfrom 77% to 26% • Pilot start: 29/129 facilities all 5 medicines in stock (77% stock-out) • Pilot end: 96/129 had all 5 medicines in stock (26% stock-out) • Pilot start: 26% of facilities had no ACT of any dosage form in stock. • Pilot end: 99% of facilities had at least one dose form of ACT in stock. District: Lindi Rural, % AL stock-out All Districts: Quinine injectable

  6. The Current Status of SMS for Life

  7. For further information see: www.smsforlife.com or send an email message to jim.barrington@novartis.com rene.ziegler@novartis.com

  8. We believe that no one should die of malaria today.

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