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± 5.3 billion mobile subscriptions (November 2010)

± Access to mobile networks available to 90% of the world population
± 73% of total mobile subscriptions are in developing countries
± 68% penetration rate in developing countries Asia & Pacific region is driving
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± 200 000 SMS sent every second!
 
 



  

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founded core Radio Print-based technology
activities ² Flying programmes distance supported
Doctors on National education learning including
Services Radio for telemedicine,
delivering health health workers eLearning and
care to remote mLearning
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â Improving access to information and care of
people on ART therapy by health workers.
Techniques used unlimited internet access to
the ART knowledge hub ePortal service by
District HIV&AIDS mentors, SMS and calling
service to Uliza HIV telephone hotline
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â Increase in knowledge for experts
worldwide consequently delivery of better
health care
â A reading culture has been adopted by
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â Education and awareness: SMS alerts for school
administration, collating student data on student
numbers from remote areas, telephone tutorials
â Capacity building: Sending supplementary
information to nurses
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â Reading culture adopted by tutors
â Schools are more willing to send student
data as the phones have an easy to use
interface
â Students are more willing to engage tutors
â Students have learnt how to use innovative
ways to access information
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â Remote areas with limited access to health professionals ² Photos taken
and sent to experts who can guide the health professionals on what to do
â Mapping hotspots or areas known to have disease outbreaks of a
particular kind ² enables deployment of personnel to these areas via
SMS/GPS
â The use of SMS·s as reminders for people involved in behaviour change,
the messages act as reminders, are personal and can be referenced for a
long period of time
â Communities of practise forming from interventions, knowledge is shared
and disseminated across various groups
â Most phones which do not have to be smart phones and are GPRS
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â Interoperability ² some Apps do not work across platforms
â Language barrier
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Project Masiluleke (South Africa)
â Million messages sent daily throughout South Africa encouraging people to be
tested for HIV via use of an innovative home HIV testing kit, messages written in
local languages
Text 4 Baby
â Voxiva, CDC, US government, also caters for Spanish speaking target group in
addition to the English speaking group
Text for Change Uganda
â HIV/AIDS awareness to 15,000 users in form of a quiz over a 3 month period after
quiz participants received a final SMS encouraging them to take a HIV test. 40%
increase in patients who came for HIV testing 6 week period from 1000 ² 1400
Data Gathering
â AMREF Virtual Nursing School, with the use of Frontline SMS AMREF has been able
to get concise numbers regarding nurse numbers for intakes by using mobile
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