Mobile Phones Improve Health Services in Africa

Having worked with youth to establish One Stop Youth Centres in Kampala, Uganda, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kigali, Rwanda, I have seen the power of mobile phones both to convene people as well as disseminate important information. What I find really exciting is to see how quickly and to what success mobile phones are being adopted in the health field, especially around the prevention of HIV/AIDS, an issue so important to youth in this region.

Here are four posts from the last 24 hours on mobile phones and health from the Urban Health blog of USAID:

1. Mobile learning for HIV/AIDS healthcare in peri-urban clinics
2. Mobile phone-based interventions India
   
3. Mobile direct observation treatment for tuberculosis patients
   
4. Uganda – Challenges in Using Mobile Phones for Data Collection

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Posted in Africa, Demographics, Development, Mobile Phones, Participatory, Technology, Uncategorized, Women, Youth
Tags: East Africa, Health care, HIV/AIDS, kenya, mobile, Mobile phone, One Stop Youth Resource Centres, Telecommunication, Uganda, UN-HABITAT