Connecting with Sara (CwS) is an initiative to track and engage with Population Service International’s (PSI) target audience (referred to as ‘Sara’) through her mobile phone. To date, PSI’s engagement with Sara has been limited to home visits, doctors’ visits, and mass media. PSI has pilo...

The rapidly-growing number and popularity of digital health related apps, in particular fertility apps, present an opportunity to meet the reproductive needs of women throughout different life-stages. Fertility apps claim to identify the fertile window of the menstrual cycle and provide women with g...

This session provides and overview of the TCI University app. What is TCI University? It's a set of practical learning tools on proven and high-impact family planning and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health interventions and approaches available to implementing city partners and the ...

The retention of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical in achieving the global UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. Given the critical role of retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy, the USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone program introduced a mobile-based reminder system that...

Nigeria, the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of 190 million is currently experiencing an epidemiological health transition with growing rates of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). NCDs, especially diabetes mellitus, hypertension and stroke, have emerged as a major public...

A key challenge in using internet protocol (IP) messaging (e.g. WhatsApp) for health is that the speed of technology change can make it difficult for implementing agencies and governments to keep up. Options for interventions are also becoming available more quickly than research can inform. This se...

In a world where 400M people have no access to healthcare and 2B have poor access (unaffordable, distant), telemedicine is seen by many as one of the most promising routes to close these gaps and speed universal health coverage. Indeed, experience in many low-resource settings has shown that digital...

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ZonaSegura is a trauma-informed youth-centered innovative research study and mobile solution to address teen dating violence in Honduras. Led by the YTH Initiative of ETR, in partnership with the Public Health Institute’s GOJoven International Program and GOJoven Honduras, this applied study and m...

We will point out that the lack of bystander first aid and Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training (Institute of Medicine reports that only 3% of Americans receive formal CPR training annually), coupled with the growing number of deaths from preventable events (49% of deaths in the US are from ...

We all know the power of mobile phones in reaching people in low-income contexts. But traditional mobile-based interventions have been used for just that - to reach people: either to push messaging at users, or extract data from them. They have been built around either basic SMS, WhatsApp or new app...

In 2016, Babylon healthcare, a UK digital health company, entered Rwanda on invitation from the Government of Rwanda to adapt and launch its' innovative digital health service in Rwanda. Babyl, from its call centre in Kigali, provides a nationwide digital health service on both feature and smart pho...

Jacaranda Health’s two-way text messaging platform (PROMPTS) educates and empowers mothers in Kenya to seek care at the right time. It is rapidly scaling, with 40,000 users projected by the end of 2019. A feature of the platform that has high demand is the ability for mothers to have their questio...

Barriers such as knowledge, cost, time, and access to services, prevent women and their partners from adopting and continuing use of contraceptive methods. Nivi’s highly scalable AI-powered conversational chat service is working to change that by providing users with personalized and culturally ap...

This presentation will share Hesperian Health Guides’ experience testing and releasing a scalable mobile app on Safe Abortion. The format and content of this app was shaped through multiple iterations of field testing with diverse representatives of potential users across the globe. Hesperian is a...

Improvements in phone access, particularly among women, is increasingly being highlighted for its transformative potential to accelerate social and economic development and potentially improve health outcomes. Yet a dearth of evidence exists linking technology directly to improvements in careseeking...

The presentation during the panel discussion will showcase Tuneme.org. UNFPA through its flagship youth programme called “Safeguard Young People” (SYP) in collaboration with Praekelt Foundation, Ford Foundation and DFID developed and rolled out Tune Me, a mobile site (mobisite) designed for low-...

USAID DISCOVER - Health Project is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project that provides direct health service delivery and socially markets health products. It is implemented by JSI. The project provides free public sector integrated HIV, FP/RH and MCH services t...

The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), a global consortium with public-private funding, has delivered vital health information to pregnant women, new mothers and their families through SMS text messages and interactive voice calls (IVR) using their mobile phones their mobile phones with mes...

The Dot fertility app uses machine learning to determine users’ daily risks for pregnancy based solely on their period start dates. While there are thousands of “fertility trackers” on the market, Dot is one of very few apps designed to be used for pregnancy prevention. It is also the only fer...

• The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), a global consortium with public-private funding, has delivered vital health information to pregnant women, new mothers and their families through SMS text messages and interactive voice calls (IVR) using their mobile phones their mobile phones with...

Patients medical records have been stored and secured in clinic, hospital and major trusted custodian company. While the current process has been proved efficient, accessing and sharing among patients are still facing its difficulty. Public has its concerns over patient’s privacy. There have been ...

In Uganda, malnutrition is adamantly one of the major health problems affecting the general population. The situation is sustained by a multitude of factors. Furthermore, a review of the efficacy (impact at individual level) and effectiveness (impact at population level) of nutrition programs in 200...

The Safe Delivery App is a smartphone application that provides skilled birth attendants with direct and instant access to evidence-based and up-to-date clinical guidelines on Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care. The App leverages the growing ubiquity of mobile phones to provide life-saving ...

USAID AID DISCOVER Health Project is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded health service delivery and social marketing project, implemented by JSI. It provides free public sector integrated HIV, FP/RH and MCH services targeting under-served communities and hard-to-reac...