Using SMS to Help People with HIV in Rural Kenya
Guest post by Ben Parfitt, Ugunja Research Team Making use of available tech in Ugunja. Photo Credit: Ben Parfitt Africa has undergone a mobile revolution, and it is spreading. The health sector is capitalizing on the resulting plethora of new opportunities. Doctors, nurses, health workers and pharmacists often rely on their mobile phones, using them as a reference tool, accessing... Read More
Innovation in practice: Family planning via SMS
Florence Scialom, FrontlineSMS Community Support Coordinator, speaks with Esha Kalra, Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) Programme Associate Photo credit: Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) It is difficult to bring an innovative idea to life, without first proving its potential in practice; there is a need to demonstrate... Read More
Safe Motherhood: Mobile healthcare in the Philippines
This post is the latest in the FrontlineSMS Mobile Message series with National Geographic. To read a summary of the Mobile Message series click here. One of the participants in the "Mobile e-Health System for Safe Motherhood Project". Photo credit: MDFI In this installment of our special “Mobile Message” series, Irma F. Saligumba – Health Research and Projects... Read More
Malaria Diagnosis in Real-Time via SMS
Re-posted from the Malaria Consortium blog, with permission from Steve Mellor, Malaria Consortium Systems Manager Malaria Consortium, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded CONTAINMENT Project, is pioneering a Day 3 positive alert system in Ta Sanh district, western Cambodia, using mobile phone and web-based technology (including FrontlineSMS) to facilitate... Read More
FrontlineSMS:Medic becomes Medic Mobile
FrontlineSMS:Medic is now Medic Mobile. From the start, FrontlineSMS:Medic implemented and extended FrontlineSMS to bridge gaps in healthcare delivery systems. After a successful pilot, the FrontlineSMS software and community acted as a launchpad for an organization that uses open source software to support health services across the globe. The launch of a new name, Medic Mobile,... Read More
White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood: Mum’s Tattoo Parlour at Glastonbury Festival
Our twenty-sixth guest post comes from the lovely James at the White Ribbon Alliance, who piloted FrontlineSMS in campaigning in a particularly innovative and fun bit of awareness-raising – offering free transfer tattoos at Glastonbury Festival… The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is a coalition of individuals and organisations that campaign to make pregnancy... Read More
Jaalaka: Connecting the HIV/AIDS Community through Technology
In the twenty-fourth in our series of guest blog posts, we’ll hear about how FrontlineSMS is helping Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, and a team of students from the University of Southern California, to build a network of people living with HIV/AIDS in India. “Jaalaka” means “network” in Sanskrit. In Hubli-Dharwad, FrontlineSMS technology is being used to connect... Read More
