Agriculture
May 15, 2018
Updated on September 18, 2018
·Created on June 25, 2018
MomConnect is a South African National Department of Health initiative which aims to support maternal health through the use of cell phone based technologies integrated into maternal and child health ser
MomConnect provides important information to pregnant women, mothers and health care workers and produce strategic information for Maternal and Child Health programmes.
MomConnect has three (3) main objectives:
1) Register each pregnancy at a government health facility;
2) Send stagebased, personalized short message service (SMS) texts to each mom in the registry;
3) Allow women to engage with the health system through help desk tools and feedback services.
*Â The services are free to the user, and messages are all 11 official South African languages.
Check out this video about MomConnect.
Distributors / Implementing Organizations
Manufacturing/Building Method
Software Development.
Intellectural Property Type
Other
User Provision Model
Users can dial a free USSD number ( *134*550# ) and their details will be held in a subscription database.
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Design Specifications
Technical Support
To report a technical or security issue, please contact techsupport@praekelt.org.
Replacement Components
N/A
Lifecycle
N/A
Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters
Vetted Performance Status
Unknown.
Safety
N/A
Complementary Technical Systems
None
Academic Research and References
Compliance with regulations
Unknown
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