272047 K4Health Malawi: Implementing a system-wide Family Planning/Reproductive Health and HIV knowledge management program to meet information needs of health professionals in Malawi

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 12:58 PM - 1:08 PM

Natalie Campbell, MPA , Knowledge Exchange, Management Sciences for Health, Arlington, VA
Documentary focused on the work of K4Health and the Malawi Ministry of Health (MOH) in improving knowledge exchange for family planning/reproductive health and HIV services through mobile technology. The film captures the successful K4Health program in enabling communities and institutions to respond to critical health challenges in the hard to reach areas of rural Malawi.

Project team lead, Thokozani Bema, is the narrator in the film. He threads a coherent path through project activities and unpacks the results in a way that makes sense of the interventions at work in this project. We meet health workers, clinicians and we get to see — at the village level — what happens when a woman is sick and, because of K4Health, able to access immediate treatment.

Thoko explains the innovation here, how the commonplace technologies of Internet capability and mobile phones can reach families where they live with the information and health services they need to create smaller, healthier families. And empowerment — what happens when you provide the small miracle of an instantaneous connection between health workers in remote locations, and the very latest clinical data and care protocols.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Diversity and culture
Provision of health care to the public

Learning Objectives:
Describe how access to information through mobile phones can improve health services in rural Africa

Keywords: Health Information, Reproductive Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Natalie Campbell has over 14 years of experience in international development. She has worked to develop innovative approaches to sharing public health knowledge through programs in Honduras, India, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Natalie is currently Management Sciences for Health’s Knowledge Manager, for Community and managed the K4Health Malawi project from start to end, which used mobile phone technology to expand Family Practice and HIV services in Malawi. from San Diego State University.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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