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My name is Jackson Hungu and
I am the Deputy Country Director of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Kenya.
mHealth relates to leveraging the connectivity provided by mobile networks.
This presents an unprecedented opportunity in
the delivery of care and treatment, particularly for
diseases such as ***/AIDS, malaria, and other priority diseases.
In this particular instance, CHAI worked with HP to rejuvenate
the Early Infant Diagnosis which is an emergency test that's provided
to infants who are born of ***-positive mothers to
identify children fairly quickly and
get them onto treatment. The challenge was, that with the landscape, intractable
getting test results was going to be very difficult, so CHAI
with HP's help,
built infrastructure such as this
at the National AIDS/STD Control Programme in Kenya, where every
laboratory that tests an infant automatically uploads their data such that
a facility such as this can then be used to connect to the mobile networks to deliver a test result.
(Fernando Adungo): We receive samples from the health facilities.
We get request forms attached to a DVS
that has been collected from the head facility.
What we do is that we enter the samples into our computer
and we have software that
captures the details of each sample that we are going to test.
As you can see, once that has been done,
then we take these particular samples for processing in our safety cabinet.
The whole process for machine testing of DNA/PCR
lasts about 5 hours. After that, we'll have the results ready
and we transmit the results from the machine online to
our results computer
that will then be able to upload the results by email, send it in by
SMS printers to various facilities and also to the national
dashboard that shows the sites, facilities, and the type of disease that resulted from that particular test.
The Government is very excited to have the ability to
manage data about various services related to ***/AIDS, and to have access
to vaccines and even responding to disease outbreaks because they're now
able to connect to health care workers and health facilities. The work that we've done in Kenya with HP
can be replicated in other facilities.
which means we can essentially drive a new wave in the delivery of care and treatment of all priority diseases.