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Malawi: Healthworkers use of Frontline SMS

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Written byElia Varela Serra
Posted 28 July 2008 7:02 GMT

Kiwanja describes some of the initiatives that are using the software Frontline SMS (an collective SMS service for NGOs), such as Josh Nesbit in Malawi who's using it “to drive field communications between a local hospital and its six hundred roaming community health workers (CHWs)”.

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Written byElia Varela Serra

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    16 January 2010, 2:51 am

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