Cardo, HIPS and Text to Change showcased a poster of their work at the Global Health Goal & Metrics Conference June 14-18 Washington D.C. , is illustrating the work of the HIPS and Text to Change on their workplace SMS initiative, and is entitled “KAP Surveys with Text Messaging: Exploring a New Source of Information for Workplace Health Programs”

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Zain through its corporate social commitment joined other stakeholders in a bid to increase HIV awareness starting at its own workplace. The project involved creating HIV/AIDS & Health awareness among Zain employees and their relatives via SMS, and encouraging employees and their relatives to get tested for HIV and know their status. Zain partnered with Text to Change, a young dynamic organization that has strong knowledge and a track record in developing text messaging programs for the health sector, to achieve these objectives.

Family Health International (FHI)/PROGRESS is harnessing the power of mobile technology to improve access to family planning information and services across the globe. The growing use of mobile phones and text messaging in developing countries prompted FHI and Text to Change to develop and begin evaluating innovative ways to use this technology to improve family planning services. This low-cost approach to reaching contraceptive users has the potential of improving correct use, uptake, and continuation of chosen methods. How does it work?

In May 2010 a white paper on mHealth was published by the Center for Global Health and Economic Development Earth Institute, Columbia University in cooperation with the mHealth Alliance.

Donorland has been littered with pilot projects over the last ten years that took interesting technology and ideas and sought to make them work in the unforgiving African context. All too often they had little idea of what potential users actually wanted and once the funding ended, the water closed over them and that was that. There is now a second generation of ICT4D projects that seem to have learnt the lessons of these early failures.

Health Child, Uganda is partnering with Text To Change to use sms to improve health in Jinja District. Health Messages will be sent out to communities to inform them to which health centre to go for a particular health service. On 3rd December 2009 this project was launched at Masese- Landing site Jinja district. The project was conducted with the support of IICD.

For decades the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-BDT) is undertaking various activities related to the study of the potential benefit of eHealth and telemedicine solutions and services in the health care sector of developing countries as well as the demonstration of these applications by implementing pilot projects in different countries. In accordance with the decisions made by the WTDC in Doha (Qatar) in 2006, BDT began to study Mobile eHealth. The main goal of ITU-D SG2, Question 14 was formulated as Mobile eHealth.