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Mhealth Initiatives with MoH

INS

How does mHealth

support program

improvement?

mHealth is the use of mobile communication technology to improve health service

delivery, increase access to care, and ensure visibility over decentralized services.

Visibility over diagnostic service, disease

monitoring and rapid response, supply

chain management, support to remote

healthcare professionals and their

patients.

How we define mHealth

INS Maputo Lab

•Over 460 Health Centers have the

printers today

•96% of Early Infant Diagnosis for

HIV results are sent via

GPRS=over 308,000 to date

•TB results are now being

transmitted via the printers

Challenge: results to infants

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EID Database in the Labs

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Printer in Health Center

Today over 50% of results are deliveredin 28 days from collection

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New Point of Care devices at Health Facilities are testing DNA PCR of

Infants exposed to HIV. Results are sent via modem to

Provincial/Central levels for monitoring and programmatic

management.

Setting:

Cobue, Niassa

20,000 pop., area

1,600 km2.

Every 2 months,

community health

workers, make a

round trip of 220 km

on foot or kayak,

stopping at 8 health

posts, travelling

with the CD4 POCT

machine.

Decentralisation to communities

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Management Platform

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for registered end-

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Daily GPRS transmissions

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diagnostic device at

health center

Remote Temperature Monitoring via

GPRSResultados Esperados:

Perfis de Temperatura de cada localidade e de cada transição entre

nós de rede

A duração e localização das digressões de temperatura por remessa

Intervalo de tempo entre o Depósito Central de Vacinas e os Centros

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Improving Medicines Supply

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Building mHealth Platform: A Connectivity Solution

POCT

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Point-of-Service Data Collection

Data Center Reporting & Communication

Partners-Donors

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