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	<title>Kilifi Kids :: Improving the Health for Kids in Kilifi, Kenya</title>
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	<description>Kilifi Kids is a nonprofit organization devoted to making high-impact investments in health to help poor kids thrive in communities like Kilifi, Kenya.</description>
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		<title>Preventing Soil Transmitted Helminths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kilifi Kids has worked for the past several years to reduce the burden of illness caused by soil transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis (hookworms in humans) by ensuring that the children of Kilifi, Kenya are provided with medication to combat these illnesses.  In addition to treating the problem, we hope to assist the Kilifi community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All aboard the M(obile) Health Express!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard of Kilifi Kids’ goal to raise $1 million for its mHealth pilot program, I wondered, &#8220;How can mobile phones be of any help to starving African children and in one of the world’s poorest countries?&#8221; Little did I know that, in the past decade, developing countries have surpassed the developed world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2012/02/17/all-aboard-the-mobile-health-express/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=all-aboard-the-mobile-health-express</link>
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		<title>An Introduction to mHealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While you were sleeping, a new concept in the medical care sector has kicked up a twister amongst medical professionals. It has been fondly named mHealth, short for mobile health. The term is used to describe medical services or healthcare carried out through the use of mobile phones or mobile telecommunication devices.  Among other things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2012/02/14/an-introduction-to-mhealth/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=an-introduction-to-mhealth</link>
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		<title>The Challenges &amp; Opportunities We Face with Introducing Cell Phones to Kilifi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March, Isaac Holeman of Medic Moble visited Kilifi and gave us an assessment of the health system in the District.  Here are some of his notes that paint a picture of the opportunities and challenges facing us with our mHealth work. &#8216; The health system in Kilifi District revolves around a district hospital co-located [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2012/01/15/the-challenges-opportunities-we-face-with-introducing-cell-phones-to-kilifi/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-challenges-opportunities-we-face-with-introducing-cell-phones-to-kilifi</link>
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		<title>A sigh of relief as Kilifi Kids mHealth project kicks off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2011/12/15/a-sigh-of-relieve-as-kilifi-kids-mhealth-project-kicks-off/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-sigh-of-relieve-as-kilifi-kids-mhealth-project-kicks-off</link>
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		<title>More mHealth Success with Text to Change (TTC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2011/11/07/more-mhealth-success-with-text-to-change-ttc/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=more-mhealth-success-with-text-to-change-ttc</link>
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		<title>Picking up Steam &#8211; What We’re Doing with Cell Phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2011/10/26/picking-up-steam-what-we%e2%80%99re-doing-with-cell-phones/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=picking-up-steam-what-we%25e2%2580%2599re-doing-with-cell-phones</link>
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		<title>56,313 Healthier Kids: More Work to Do (Part 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2011/10/18/56313-healthier-kids-more-work-to-do-part-3/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=56313-healthier-kids-more-work-to-do-part-3</link>
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		<title>UN Proclaims the Potential of mHealth at its General Assembly Session</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kilifikids.org/2011/09/29/un-proclaims-the-potential-of-mhealth-at-its-general-assembly-session/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=un-proclaims-the-potential-of-mhealth-at-its-general-assembly-session</link>
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		<title>56,313 Healthier Kids: Testing &amp; Evaluation (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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