SMS for Life

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
Ghana
Partners: 
Ghana Health Service;
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute;
Roll Back Malaria;
Greenmash;
Activities: 

This initiative uses a combination of mobile phones, SMS messages, a configurable campaign management platform and electronic mapping technology to generate information on stock availability of artemether-lumefantrine, ASAQ, Amoxicillin and rapid diagnostic tests. The information is collected weekly and made available in a set of reports, graphs, charts and maps to the Ghana Health Service. This visibility is meant to avoid stock-outs and ultimately to reduce the number of deaths from malaria. The pilot project in six districts launched in July 2011 and will run for 21 weeks to test it's effectiveness and suitability for a nationwide roll out.

Further reading: 

Greenmash 2011, mHealth Solutions

[Project submitted by Greenmash, Aug. 2011]

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