Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria

Today, many health facilities suffer from stock-outs of essential medicines

Artemisinin:

• Plant• Grow• Harvest

Chemicalprocess:• Arte• Lume

Tabletting& packa-ging ofACT’s

Distri-bution tocountries

Ware-house

Countryware-house

Districtdistri-bution

HealthFacilities& HealthPosts

Pharmaceutical Suppliers

Procurement agents

Patient

National Malaria Control Programs

Solution/Process design criteria

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General process overviewCollect health facility medicine stock levels and surveillance data via SMS/text messageProvide reports via the internet, e-mail and mobile phone

Hospitals

Health Facilities

Dispensaries

“SMS for Life”

The system must accept SMS messages from any mobile network

District Management

"SMS for Life" l HF Training Kenya August 2011

The Tanzania pilot: dramatic reduction of stock-outs from 77% to 26%

• Pilot start: 29/129 facilities all 5 medicines in stock (77% stock-out)

• Pilot end: 96/129 had all 5 medicines in stock (26% stock-out)

• Pilot start: 26% of facilities had no ACT of any dosage form in stock.

• Pilot end: 99% of facilities had at least one dose form of ACT in stock.

District: Lindi Rural,% AL stock-out

All Districts:Quinine injectable

The Current Status of SMS for LifeTanzania Ghana Kenya DRC

Current status

National rollout for 5 antimalaria medicines completed in Oct/2011

Pilot running since 04/07/2011

Pilot running since 22/08/2011

Assessment in April 2011Pilot planning on-going

Facilities 131 Districts; 5070 Health Facilities1 Central and 8 Zonal stores

6 Districts90 Health Facilities

5 Districts87 Health Facilities

4 Zones15 Stores57 Health Facilities

Scope 5 antimalaria medicines; SP and rapid diagnostic tests for malaria to be added;Pilot with TB and Leprosy drugs in 5 Districts on-going since Aug/11

8 antimalaria medicines; rapid diagnostic tests for malaria; AmoxicillinBlood supply (1 Region since 8/11/11)

4 antimalaria medicines; rapid diagnostic tests for malariaSurveillance data (4 parameters)

6 antimalaria medicines; rapid diagnostic tests for malaria; bednets

Support Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Medicines for Malaria Ventures, Vodacom; Novartis Foundation for TB and Leprosy

Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteNovartis Foundation (blood supplies)

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Roll Back Malaria, Benelux Afro Center, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

System Vodafone Greenmash Greenmash tbd

Country

For further information see: www.smsforlife.comor send an email message to jim.barrington@novartis.comrene.ziegler@novartis.com

We believe that no one should die of malaria today.