Mobile Midwife

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
Ghana
Partners: 
Grameen Foundation;
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
University of Southern Maine;
Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health;
Ghana Health Service;
BabyCenter;
Activities: 

The Mobile Midwife project in northeast Ghana is part of the ‘Mobile Technology for Community Health’ (MoTeCH) project. It aims to improve antenatal and neonatal care among the rural poor and to empower women to take control over their own health. Voice or text messages provide relevant health information during the pregnancy and encourage women to seek antenatal care. After the birth of the child information on essential vaccinations and the management of critical childhood diseases is sent. In addition, community health workers can keep electronic records and retrieve patient information using their mobile phone.

Further reading: 

Grameen Foundation 2011, Mobile technology for community health in Ghana: What it is and what Grameen Foundation has learned so far

Health Unbound 2011, Marketing "Mobile Midwife" in Ghana, Blogpost, 3 Oct. 2011

Richardson, J. 2011, Health care by phone? There's an app for that, The Portland Press Herald, 13 Mar. 2011

Grameen Foundation, 2010, Grameen Foundation and BabyCenter join forces to support mobile healthcare initaitves in developing countries, Press release, 8 Nov. 2010

Grameen Foundation, 2010, Mobile Midwife Initative, Video (5m32), Youtube.com

Grameen Foundation, Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH)

[added Dec. 2010, updated Oct. 2011]

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