By Jonathan M Mativo, Field Project Manager –Medic Mobile, Kilifi Kenya Barely a year after a successful fundraising campaign by Kilifi Kids in partnership with Rotary International and lead by the Rotary clubs of Vinings and Kilifi, lots of progress is starting to be made. Phase I has already been rolled out, much to the [...]
Text to Change, or TTC for short, is an mHealth project that was carried out in Mbarra region of Uganda for 3 months, from February to April 2008. The main aim of the project was to increase awareness about HIV/AIDS among the people of Uganda. Additionally, the developers of the Text to Change (TTC) project [...]
Our mHealth pilot is picking up steam. Phase 1 of our project began last July (2010), where we deployed cell phones to approximately 20 health facilities throughout the Kilifi District (about half of total) to improve the reporting of disease surveillance. Our Phase 2 has officially kicked off this past July (2011) and will go [...]
In my last post of a three-part discussion on our de-worming program, I believe it critical to emphasize that, even with our tremendous results, more work is needed to fight these devastating diseases (helminthes and schistosomiasis). With incidence rates below 1 percent for 50,000 pupils in Kilifi today, it would be easy to move on. [...]
The United Nations is currently meeting for its 66th session of the General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City. On Monday, September 19, the current President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, called on world leaders to embrace mobile technologies in their efforts towards disease control and prevention. Speaking at an awards [...]
If you’re like me and not a public health expert, you may not understand how much work goes into accurately measuring and analyzing the success of a de-worming campaign like ours. I thought it would be interesting to highlight some of the procedures undertaken in our recent study. Below are sections pulled from the report [...]
I am happy to report exciting news. Since 2008, Kilifi Kids and its partners, notably the Rotary Club of Kilifi and Kilifi District Hospital, have planned, raised funds, and deployed medication to a target population of 30,000 school-age students per year in the Kilifi District to fight the deadly parasitic diseases of helminthes and schistosomiasis. [...]
In July 2010, I had the honor of traveling to Kenya to meet with the Kilifi Kids team there and work on developing our mobile health care – or mHealth – pilot project. During our stay in Kilifi, we spent many days meeting in the town, where I met the amazing volunteer team from the [...]
Hi everyone! My name is Joshua Hoffman. I’m the new volunteer Community Director for the Kilifi Kids blog. If you’re a new visitor to Kilifi Kids, I’d like to welcome you, and thank you for joining us to learn more about the work of our organization in the Kilifi, Kenya community and around the world. [...]
Kilifi Kids has a remarkable 2010 and 2011 will be even bigger. In 2010, we kicked off our mHealth pilot by connecting rural clinics with mobile phones in late spring. After a successful fundraising drive, we sent a 4-person team to Kenya in July to meet the Ministry of Health and build our solution. In [...]