Testimony on text messages
Watch here a video of our Ugandan C4C partner Health Child on “Using mobile phones to improve community knowledge on maternal and child health“.
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Improving awareness on maternal health via mobile phones
News item by Text to Change: On World Aids Day, 1st December 2011, the first Connect4Change program in Uganda officially kicked off for Text to Change and Health Child. The C4C program with Health Child targets pregnant women and the community in the Eastern region of Uganda, Jinja. There are still high rates of child [...]
Video Interview with Manfred Yaw Owusu-Ansah of CHAG, Ghana
Manfred is health information systems technical advisor for this large faith-based NGO. CHAG (www.chagghana.org) is involved in implementing a computerised healthcare records system and an e-learning programme for healthcare professionalls as part of the Connect4Change programme. Manfred is documenting lessons learned in the project’s pilot stage that will inform its final roll out. Interview recorded [...]
ICT tools for Behavior Change Communication
News item by Health Child: Introduction and Background Uganda has one of the highest maternal mortality rates standing at 435 per 100,000 live births (UDHS, 2006). Results of the 2006 Uganda Demographic Health Survey (UDHS) showed that 56 percent of women who attended antenatal sessions four times during pregnancy gave birth in a health facility [...]
Talking health, in Uganda
Blog by Kathelyne van den Berg, Connect4Change programme coordinator at Akvo. I’ve been attending the Health Roundtable for the new Connect4Change (C4C ) programme at the Lweza training center located just outside Kampala, Uganda. This type of workshop is commonly used in development aid programmes to define the issues people are facing, and get to [...]
SMS services for health campaign in Jinja, Uganda
1 December 2009: Text to Change together with Healthchild will introduce a mobile phone text messaging system for a Health Campaign in the Jinja District, Eastern Uganda. The new service will increase access to health information and services for people living in the rural communities of the Jinja District about topics such as family planning, [...]
Case study Tanzania
Health Management Information System releases workload and helps to provide better health care Hospitals in the north of Tanzania introduced a health management information system with assistance of Cordaid and IICD to increase efficient and effectiveness of patient registration, diagnosis, drugs and financial administration. This resulted in faster attention to patients, less treatment errors and [...]
