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AMREF is in the pilot phase of its mobile health training programme in Kenya, Africa. Samara Hammond, CEO of AMREF's UK branch talks to Capacity about the huge impact of mobile health services in the region.
What is the mobile health training programme designed to do?
The programme, developed in partnership with Accenture, is designed to support the training of community health workers (CHWs) in Africa, using mobile phones.
The really exciting thing about this programme is that it's also developing a platform, which other applications can use.
We are already developing applications around collecting health information and community disease surveillance, and the idea can be expanded on existing applications as well. For example, if and when Kenya gets to a point where it pays its CHWs, you could pay them across the platform via a service like M-Pesa.
So the pilot project which we're deploying at the moment is going to be a great addition to the health training system, but the really exciting part is...