Phones for Health

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
Rwanda
Partners: 
Treatment and Research AIDS Centre (TRAC) Rwanda;
Accenture Development Partners;
GSM Association Development Fund;
Motorola;
MTN;
Voxiva;
The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR);
Activities: 

The system was designed to collect, store, retrieve, and disseminate critical programme, drug, and patient information related to HIV/AIDS care and treatment. It allows health workers to report data from the field using mobile phones, as well as PCs and PDAs. The data is mapped and analyzed automatically and immediately available to health authorities via the web. The system also supports SMS alerting and notification.

Further reading: 

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Connecting to a Healthy Future  

Voxiva, TRACnet

Nkurunziza, S. 2009, Gov't Adopts Phones for Health Initiative, The New Times of Rwanda, 4 May 2009

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2008, TRACnet Rwanda – Fighting Pandamics through Information Technology, Innovation for Sustainable Development: Local Case Studies from Africa

[added November 2010]

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