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MEDITEL Services
To date, over 14,000 community health workers have been trained
Malaria Consortium has been implementing training in Mozambique, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia since 2009
Every year, an estimated 6.9 million children die before they reach the age of five
Train selected community members in the skills required to diagnose, treat and refer in serious cases
providing close to 3 million treatments for over 2.4 million cases.
Many deaths are attributed to preventable and treatable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria
Most conditions can be readily diagnosed and treated by people within the community, including those with limited education and medical training
MEDITEL Service User:
Community Health Workers in Rural Africa
Appropriate for basic mobile phones
Fast and easy to use – saving time
Identify potentially severe cases
which need immediate referral
Select options by typing a number
on the phone keypad to work
through the decision tree
Aim: Help community health workers make appropriate care decisions by guiding the process to diagnose, treat and refer patients based on the existence and severity of symptoms
Benefits of MEDITEL:
MEDITEL Service Capability:
Continually update centrally
located database
Resulting instructions summarised
in a text message to the recipient
USSD is appropriate for areas without internet
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Objectives:
- Bring health care to the most vulnerable
- Empower community health workers
- Enable fast decisions to be made
- Use appropriate technology
- Share knowledge
- Reduce the burden on overstretched health facilities
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