HEALTH 2.0 AROUND THE WORLD

Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons

MHEALTH IN AFRICA

Growth in Mobile Connections

Mobile-cellular penetration

rates are estimated at 95%:

128% in developed

countries & 89% in

developing countries.4.6 Billion

2009 20152011

6.0 Billion 7.8 Billion

Mobile Connections in Developing Countries

GSMA mHealth Tracker: mHealth Projects Worldwide

GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI)

• GSMA mHealth programme launched the Pan-African

mHealth Initiative (PAMI) in support of UN’s Every Woman

Every Child Initiative, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) and the

Global Nutrition for Growth Compact.

• Focus: to support the scale-up of mHealth in nutrition and

maternal and child health, in support of the Millennium

Development Goals 4, 5 and 6.

• Funded by Department for International Development

(DFID) and Norad

• Target Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,

Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and

Zambia.

GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI)

Zero Mothers Die: mHealth Project for Maternal Mortality

• Zero Mothers Die is a global partnership initiative to save the lives of

these women by giving pregnant women access to mobile

technologies to increase their access to information and healthcare.

• Country initiative in Senegal to use mobile

technology for DIABETES prevention and

control launching in November 2014.

1. Prevention using SMS based campaign;

2. mTraining program for health professionals and

community health workers;

3. Patient monitoring component using mobile

phones.

Partnership initiative

between WHO and ITU

using mobile technology to

improve NCDs prevention

and treatment.

Reports: Scaling Up Mobile Health• Two key reports published on best practices for Scaling

Up Mobile Health in developing countries

• Author: Jeannine Lemaire

Key Success

Factors:

How to Build

Partnerships for

mHealth Project

Scale Up

MAMA – Bangladesh, South Africa, India

DR. JORDI SERRANO PONSFounder & CEO, UniversalDoctor Project

jserranopons@universaldoctor.com

@UniversalDoctor