Project description
In 2017, the Ministry of Health of Zambia signed a memorandum of understanding with the pharmaceutical Swiss group Novartis and its partner Right to Care for the deployment of the programm SMS for Life 2.0 in 2 000 health centres throughout the country. The project has to do with monitoing medecine stocks, diseases and e-learning modules for medical practicioners. The group Novartis explains that health professionals will be able to monitor the essential stocks of medecine such as antimalarial ones, vaccinations, treatments against HIV, tuberculosis and leprosy, and send notifications to district medical officials once these levels are low. The programm will allow for the monitoring of the parameters of surveillance of the malaria, maternal death, child mortality and other diseases such as measles, yellow fever and cholera. Furthermore, SMS for Life 2.0 will make sure medical practicioners are formed in local centres, while providing them with on-demand e-learning modules. SMS for Life 2.0 is and evolution of the programm SMS fo Life launched by Novartis in 2009. The initial version was using mobiles devices to manage antimalarian medecine shortage in more than 10 000 health centres of sub-Saharan Africa. This second version was developed to better address the man operational challenges health centres located in remote areas are facing. SMS for Life 2.0 is supported by the mobile telephony operator Vodacom.
Tags: e-learning, Mobile application, Risk management
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Project summary
- Organization Novartis, Right to Care, Ministry of Health of Zambia
- Location Zambie
- Creation date 09/05/2019
- Project category eHealth
