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USING MOBILE PHONES TO SCALE UP PREVENTION

USING MOBILE PHONES TO SCALE UP PREVENTION. 4th Corporate Africa Business Coalition Partnerships for Prevention Addis Ababa 7 th – 9 th February 2011 Thérèse LETHU. Growing faster in Africa. 5 billion cell phone subscribers in 2011

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USING MOBILE PHONES TO SCALE UP PREVENTION

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  1. USING MOBILE PHONESTO SCALE UP PREVENTION 4th Corporate Africa Business Coalition Partnerships for Prevention Addis Ababa 7 th – 9 th February 2011 Thérèse LETHU

  2. Growing faster in Africa • 5 billion cell phone subscribers in 2011 • Mobile health applications: 500 million people, 1.4 billion smart phone owners in 2015 • The mobile phone market is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else. • Learning from experiences, identify new ideas from pilots and tracking results is critical

  3. mHealth : A chance for Africa • Reinforce the capacities of health workers. • Improve access to early diagnostic. • mHealth applications : a chance for Africa. information, diagnosis, treatment support, monitoring, education and training, data collection, disease and epidemic outbreak tracking, helpline. • Complex medical imaging tool 8 - 10 megapixel cameras/ tiny digital microscopes/ web-based software, electronic medical records

  4. Successful Pilot Projects • MDNet is a free doctor-to-doctor communication network, using mobile phones in Ghana. • A toll-free call scheme links callers to counsellors on HIV-AIDS concerns in Nigeria. • HP & Clinton Health Access Initiative help build 5 data centers in Kenya to bring timely treatment tochildren infected with HIV. • In Tanzania, a clinic surgery uses M-Pesa service to send grants to women to pay transport’s cost from rural areas. • EpiSurveyor is a free phone program to collectdata in order to stop an outbreak as early as possible

  5. Challenges and Recommendations • Progress is needed to scale-up/sustain projects to: • Facilitate Inter-operability / maintenance. • Develop public sector oriented solutions for service delivery/ ICT policy formulation / implementation. • Initiate interdisciplinary research to design projects with the full spectrum of needs in mind. • Optimize initial costs (set-up, SMS, training) through partnerships. Pilot projects demonstrate technically that something useful can be done. What hasn’t happened yet, is to do it on a significant scale.

  6. Discussion • What are your experiences using mobile phone to facilitate your activities? • What are your recommendations? … Data centers, cloud computing / SMS-enabled printers could be the future of public health in Africa…

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