Presentation to US-Africa Private Sector Health Forum21 November 2008

Claire ThwaitesHead of Vodafone Foundation & UN Foundation Partnership

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• The UN Foundation started 10 years ago with a $1bn gift from Ted Turner

• Vodafone’s £15m, 5 year partnership with the UN began in 2005

• The partnership offers Vodafone the opportunity to act as a global citizen andhelp tackle humanitarian challenges with technology solutions on a global scale

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mHealthmHealth for Developmentfor Development

The Partnership has supported a measles vaccination program –aiming to achieve a 90% reduction in deaths by 2010.

We’ve immunized 372 children and helped save 2.3m lives so far

mHealthmHealth for Developmentfor Development

The Partnership has supported the development of a wireless healthdata collection tool – enabling health workers to flag diseasesand respond to potential epidemics.

Working with the WHO – the wireless tool has been deployed in 22sub-Saharan African countries so far. Already there have beenimproved efficiencies, more effective health systems and betterpatient outcomes.

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The Partnership commissions independent researchon the role of mobile in helping tackle humanitarianchallenges. The most recent report was on;

• mHealth for development

Available at www.unfoundation.org

mHealth Defined

mHealth (n) – the delivery of health care

services via mobile communication devices

Addresses pressing publichealth issues• Tracking outbreaks of communicable diseases

• HIV/AIDS treatment & prevention

• Maternal health care

• Children’s health

mHealth: Key Applications• Education and Awareness - SMS/text messaging in support of public

health and behavioral change campaigns.

• Data Collection and Record Access - Applications using mobiledevices to enter and access patient data.

• Monitoring and Medication Compliance - Maintain care giverappointments or ensure medication regime adherence via one-way ortwo-way communications on mobile devices.

• Disease and Emergency Tracking – Use mobile devices to send andreceive data on disease incidence, outbreaks and public healthemergencies.

• Health and Administrative Systems - Allow access between mHealthapplications and central health systems.

• Analysis, Diagnosis and Consultation - Support diagnosis andtreatment through access to medical information or staff via mobiledevices.

THANK YOUTHANK YOU

cthwaites@unfoundation.org