Cell PREVEN

 
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Region: 
Latin America & Caribbean
Country: 
Peru
Partners: 
University of Washington Seattle;
The Wellcome Trust;
Imperial College London;
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia;
Voxiva;
Activities: 

In 2004 a public health surveillance project to lower the rate of sexually transmitted diseases was piloted. Cell phones were used for real-time collection and transmission of adverse events related to metronidazole administration among female sex workers in three cities.

Further reading: 

Curioso, W.H. 2009, Welcome to the Cell-PREVEN Project, Universidad Peruano Cayetano Heredia, University of Washington, Imperial College

Curioso, W.H. et al. 2008, eHealth in Peru - A Country Case Study, Lima, Peru

Curioso, W.H., et al. 2005, Design and Implementation of Cell-PREVEN: A Real-Time Surveillance System for Adverse Events Using Cell Phones in Peru, AMIA 2005 Conference Proceedings, pp. 176-180

Chin, T. 2005, Cell Phones Help Doctors Collect Data  in New Ways, American Medical News, Vol. 8, no. 7, p. 27

[added March 2010]

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