Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria
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Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria
Today, many health facilities suffer from stock-outs of essential medicines
Artemisinin:
• Plant• Grow• Harvest
Chemicalprocess:• Arte• Lume
Tabletting& packa-ging ofACT’s
Distri-bution tocountries
Ware-house
Countryware-house
Districtdistri-bution
HealthFacilities& HealthPosts
Pharmaceutical Suppliers
Procurement agents
Patient
National Malaria Control Programs
Solution/Process design criteria
3
General process overviewCollect health facility medicine stock levels and surveillance data via SMS/text messageProvide reports via the internet, e-mail and mobile phone
Hospitals
Health Facilities
Dispensaries
“SMS for Life”
The system must accept SMS messages from any mobile network
District Management
"SMS for Life" l HF Training Kenya August 2011
The Tanzania pilot: dramatic reduction of stock-outs from 77% to 26%
• Pilot start: 29/129 facilities all 5 medicines in stock (77% stock-out)
• Pilot end: 96/129 had all 5 medicines in stock (26% stock-out)
• Pilot start: 26% of facilities had no ACT of any dosage form in stock.
• Pilot end: 99% of facilities had at least one dose form of ACT in stock.
District: Lindi Rural,% AL stock-out
All Districts:Quinine injectable
The Current Status of SMS for LifeTanzania Ghana Kenya DRC
Current status
National rollout for 5 antimalaria medicines completed in Oct/2011
Pilot running since 04/07/2011
Pilot running since 22/08/2011
Assessment in April 2011Pilot planning on-going
Facilities 131 Districts; 5070 Health Facilities1 Central and 8 Zonal stores
6 Districts90 Health Facilities
5 Districts87 Health Facilities
4 Zones15 Stores57 Health Facilities
Scope 5 antimalaria medicines; SP and rapid diagnostic tests for malaria to be added;Pilot with TB and Leprosy drugs in 5 Districts on-going since Aug/11
8 antimalaria medicines; rapid diagnostic tests for malaria; AmoxicillinBlood supply (1 Region since 8/11/11)
4 antimalaria medicines; rapid diagnostic tests for malariaSurveillance data (4 parameters)
6 antimalaria medicines; rapid diagnostic tests for malaria; bednets
Support Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Medicines for Malaria Ventures, Vodacom; Novartis Foundation for TB and Leprosy
Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteNovartis Foundation (blood supplies)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Roll Back Malaria, Benelux Afro Center, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
System Vodafone Greenmash Greenmash tbd
Country
For further information see: www.smsforlife.comor send an email message to [email protected]@novartis.com
We believe that no one should die of malaria today.