Malaria Surveillance & Mapping

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
Botswana
Partners: 
HP;
Ministry of Health Botswana;
Clinton Foundation;
PING Positive Innovation for the Next Generation;
Malaria No More;
Mascom;
Activities: 

The partners in this project aim to move away from slow paper reports and instead equip health-care workers with mobile phones to gather malaria data and upload the information to the cloud. Workers can also tag data with a GPS coordinate, pictures, video, and audio. In case of signals for an outbreak, Ministry of Health officials and other health workers in the area will be notified in real time via text message. The 1-year pilot was launched in the beginning of 2011 and if found to be a success the aim is to expand it to all outbreak-prone diseases in Botswana.

Further reading: 

PING 2011, Disease Surveillance & Mapping Project,Tech Projects

HP 2011, HP and Ping Collaborate on Mobile Health Monitoring to Reduce Malaria, Press Release, 6 Jun. 2011

Schartz, A. 2011, HP Battling Malaria in Real Time With Cell Technology, Fast Company, 6 Jun. 2011

[added June 2011]

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