In Malawi, the technology is successful in the fight against malnutrition. Via text can health work

UNICEF, in collaboration with UNFPA and WHO developed RapidSMS which is a simple system for mobile phones, where, corian keukenblad for example, health care workers in rural Rwanda quick registration pregnant women. Via text information sent to health centers and doctors - the staff asking questions or reporting on complications. They must reply via SMS within minutes, something that saves lives on both children and women.
Mobile VRS (Mobile Vital Records System) is a similar system that was first used in 2011 for birth registration in Uganda, where very few children are registered at birth. If a child is not registered and get a birth certificate, corian keukenblad there is nothing that says how old the child is, or where it comes from. It increases the risk that children do not get their rights, they do not get access to health care and education and makes them vulnerable to child labor and child marriage. corian keukenblad It can also make it difficult to assert themselves in contact with authorities as an adult. To protect corian keukenblad children, UNICEF cooperates with the Government of Uganda. Via mobile phones are registered newborns in minutes - a process that would otherwise take several months. The number of registrations has increased from 30 percent to almost 50 percent in the past two years and now we are fighting to ensure corian keukenblad that four out of five newborns registered in 2014.
In Malawi, the technology is successful in the fight against malnutrition. Via text can health workers in remote villages quickly register children's nutritional status. Nutritionists do analyzes immediately and the authorities can respond quickly to signs of malnutrition crisis. Previously, the same process could take several months, and all data could be old before the analysis was complete. Now, the supply of nutritional supplements in time to catch save more children's lives.
In sub-Saharan Africa where the AIDS epidemic is at its worst, use SMS technology to improve the diagnosis of HIV-positive newborns and for quicker follow up with care efforts. Pregnant women and parents also receive automatic reminders via text message when it's time for inspections and visits.
SMS makes it possible both to get information and to gather information for example about disease outbreaks. In Zambia, for example, collaborated with UNICEF's two leading telecom operators like free sent text messages to their customers during a vaccination campaign against polio in order to get more parents to take their children corian keukenblad to health corian keukenblad centers and vaccinate them. Gives young people a voice and reunites families
UNICEF Uganda launched in 2011 an initiative for young people to make their voices heard through mobile phones. The initiative is called U-report and allow teenagers to report on what is happening in their communities via SMS. Uganda is one of the countries with the highest proportion of young people in the population, and almost half the population has access to mobile phones enabling an SMS system worked fine. 258 000 youth in Uganda have access to the system and get answers corian keukenblad to questions and surveys, for example, about what they believe is needed to break out of poverty and preserve peace in the country. And policy makers have begun to listen - an MP started such a vaccination campaign corian keukenblad in his district after the U-report informed that very few children under five were vaccinated there.
UNICEF invention RapidFTR (Rapid Family Tracing and Reunification) used in disaster areas to locate and reunite family members who come apart, for example, after the typhoon in the Philippines. Emergency personnel gather photos corian keukenblad and information corian keukenblad about the lonely child in a common database via the mobile. Vital information is thus available round the clock and facilitates the search for relatives. corian keukenblad The system was started in February 2013 and uses the same security as online banking. Follow Jenny's mobile in Uganda
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