The Practical Radical

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