2. Growth in Mobile Connections
Mobile-cellular penetration
rates are estimated at 95%:
128% in developed
countries & 89% in
developing countries.4.6 Billion
2009 20152011
6.0 Billion 7.8 Billion
5. GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI)
• GSMA mHealth programme launched the Pan-African
mHealth Initiative (PAMI) in support of UN’s Every Woman
Every Child Initiative, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) and the
Global Nutrition for Growth Compact.
• Focus: to support the scale-up of mHealth in nutrition and
maternal and child health, in support of the Millennium
Development Goals 4, 5 and 6.
6. • Funded by Department for International Development
(DFID) and Norad
• Target Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and
Zambia.
GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI)
7. Zero Mothers Die: mHealth Project for Maternal Mortality
• Zero Mothers Die is a global partnership initiative to save the lives of
these women by giving pregnant women access to mobile
technologies to increase their access to information and healthcare.
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10. • Country initiative in Senegal to use mobile
technology for DIABETES prevention and
control launching in November 2014.
1. Prevention using SMS based campaign;
2. mTraining program for health professionals and
community health workers;
3. Patient monitoring component using mobile
phones.
Partnership initiative
between WHO and ITU
using mobile technology to
improve NCDs prevention
and treatment.
11. Reports: Scaling Up Mobile Health
• Two key reports published on best practices for Scaling
Up Mobile Health in developing countries
• Author: Jeannine Lemaire
Zero Mothers Die has 6 mobile- focused technology components:
MumHealth… (1)
This service will be delivered through our 2nd component, which is the systematic distribution … (2)
The 3rd component is the allocation of … (3)
Our 4th component focuses on the … (4)
The 5th component consists of a … (5)
And finally, our 6th component involves a … developed by The People’s Vision (6)
