1. HEALTH 2.0 AROUND THE WORLD
Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons
MHEALTH IN AFRICA

2. Growth in Mobile Connections
Mobile-cellular penetration
rates are estimated at 95%:
128% in developed
countries & 89% in
developing countries.4.6 Billion
2009 20152011
6.0 Billion 7.8 Billion

3. Mobile Connections in Developing Countries

4. GSMA mHealth Tracker: mHealth Projects Worldwide

5. GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI)
• GSMA mHealth programme launched the Pan-African
mHealth Initiative (PAMI) in support of UN’s Every Woman
Every Child Initiative, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) and the
Global Nutrition for Growth Compact.
• Focus: to support the scale-up of mHealth in nutrition and
maternal and child health, in support of the Millennium
Development Goals 4, 5 and 6.

6. • Funded by Department for International Development
(DFID) and Norad
• Target Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and
Zambia.
GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI)

7. Zero Mothers Die: mHealth Project for Maternal Mortality
• Zero Mothers Die is a global partnership initiative to save the lives of
these women by giving pregnant women access to mobile
technologies to increase their access to information and healthcare.

10. • Country initiative in Senegal to use mobile
technology for DIABETES prevention and
control launching in November 2014.
1. Prevention using SMS based campaign;
2. mTraining program for health professionals and
community health workers;
3. Patient monitoring component using mobile
phones.
Partnership initiative
between WHO and ITU
using mobile technology to
improve NCDs prevention
and treatment.

11. Reports: Scaling Up Mobile Health
• Two key reports published on best practices for Scaling
Up Mobile Health in developing countries
• Author: Jeannine Lemaire

12. Key Success
Factors:
How to Build
Partnerships for
mHealth Project
Scale Up

13. MAMA – Bangladesh, South Africa, India

14. DR. JORDI SERRANO PONS
Founder & CEO, UniversalDoctor Project
jserranopons@universaldoctor.com
@UniversalDoctor