Technology for Good at the Social Good Summit

How come so many children under five continue to die from preventable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa?

Though infant mortality rates have declined worldwide in the past decade, many parts of sub-Saharan Africa remain unacceptably high, averaging 130 deaths per 1,000 births of children under five.

ChildCount+ is a mHealth platform developed by the Millennium Villages Project. It is specifically aimed at empowering communities to improve child survival and maternal health. With more than 2000 mobile phones supplied by Sony Ericsson to the villages’ community health care providers - children under five, pregnant women and newborns can be monitored and patient records generated.

The platform uses SMS text messages to facilitate and coordinate the activities of community based health care providers, which are usually community health care workers (CHWs). Using the standard mobile phone, CHWs are able to use text messages to register patients and report their health status to a central web-dashboard that provides a real-time view of the health of a community.

Connect with ChildCount+, part of Millennium Villages:

http://twitter.com/promise
http://www.facebook.com/MillenniumPromise

Recent Press:
http://www.ericsson.com/res/thecompany/docs/corporate-responsibility/2010/DHI_delivered_FINAL.pdf

http://millenniumvillages.org/files/2011/06/1mCHW_TechnicalTaskForceReport.pdf

http://www.ericsson.com/res/thecompany/docs/corporate-responsibility/2010/corporate-responsibility-2010.pdf

http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/sustainability_corporateresponsibility/enabling_communication_for_all/millenium_villages/bonsaasa_ghana

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