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The mobile healthcare has not yet come up and still is in the initial levels in most of the countries.
Many African countries are now looking upto the field of Telemedicine and experts in the same area, that would help overcome problems of limited health care skills and growing disease burden.
Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa.
As part of a UN programme for tackling poverty in rural Africa, 79 villages across 10 African countries will be hooked up to cellular networks. Around half a million people, described by the UN as “the poorest of the poor”, are expected to make mobile calls soon.
[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
There is a need to provide connectivity and access to the much needed and poorly distributed health knowledge and expertise within the health system in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Uganda has become the first country in the world to benefit from a healthcare information system that manages, measures and monitors the distribution of Anti retroviral drugs (ARVs).