Just got news of another great EpiSurveyor deployment: Internews just completed a survey of information needs among refugees in the Dadaab camps in northern Kenya using EpiSurveyor.

Continuing on the topic of "using EpiSurveyor for non-health activities" comes this article about use of EpiSurveyor in the refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya by the Norwegian Refugee Council and Internews.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (www.ieee.org) has organized a major workshop on e-Health in the EA region.The theme of the workshop is " The role of ICT in streamlining and increasing access to healthcare in the developing world. Its a two day workshop which started yesterday and ends today ( 28th - 29th July 2011 ) at the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE ) Nairobi Kenya.

"Business unusual" said the Provincial Nursing Officer of Western Province Matron Asumpta Mateke while officially closing the Five day Training supported by UNICEF Kenya Country office.The training targeted the DHMT members of 31 districts in the province.Over 90 participants were trained and due to the large number the participants were split in to two and trained for one and a half days.This was a TOT training whose main objective is to use Mobile Phone during support supervision on Child and Maternal visit to the facilities while addressing MDG 4 and 5.The province has integrated data co

The theme of Malezi Bora for the Month of May 2011 was "Improving the Healthy Mothers and the New Born Babies".Health workers at the National level led by Mr. Benard wambu the M&E Programme officer at the Division of Division of Adoloscence and Child Health used EpiSurveyor to monitor the critical indicators in the field.The officers were assigned to all the provinces of Kenya to collect data from the clients and the health workers in the field.

Excellent article on the WHO website talking about use of EpiSurveyor for polio eradication. 

As we all know by now, mobile phone use is skyrocketing.  In Columbia, for example, there are more mobile subscribers per 100 inhabitants than in the US (92 vs 87 as of 2008 data)! And in Africa, about 40% of the population owns a mobile phone –  from essentially zero ownership 10 years ago. 

There is a lot of talk these days about "mHealth", but there's another way that mobiles are affecting health: as a labor-saving device.

Datadyne and University of Nairobi have started collobaration which aims at promoting mHealth activities within the University and local communities.Saturday 19th/06/2010 marks the turning point as the first batch of lecturers and friends of Naiobi University were trained on EpiSurveyor.

Hot on heels of the just concluded malezi Bora week where Supervisors from MOPHs,UNICEF,WHO and other Partners monitored the activities on real time basis.The team conducted a total of 356 Exit Interviews and visited 116 districts during in the last two weeks.