Taking mhealth to Scale: Governing Tanzania’s Private Drug Outlets - In the private sector, Tanzania has more than 1,000 pharmacies, 2,500 pharmaceutical personnel, 6,000 accredited drug dispensing outlets (ADDOs), and more than 18,000 ADDO dispensers. The Pharmacy Council of Tanzania has overseen these facilities and personnel since 2011 but lacked a comprehensive system to manage regulatory information. Without such a system, basic facility and personnel MORE
MAMA Spotlight Case Study:Tanzania, Wazazi Nipendeni / Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby - The complete case study of how Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby Text Messaging Service in Tanzania has used the MAMA adaptable messaging including challenges, lessons learned, and future plans to scale up. MORE
mPESA Kenya - mPesa is a mobile phone-based money transfer, financing and microfinancing service, launched in 2007 by Vodafone for Safaricom and Vodacom, the largest mobile network operators in Kenya and Tanzania. It has since expanded to Afghanistan, South Africa, India and in 2014 to Romania and in 2015 to Albania. M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdraw, transfer money and pay for goods and services (Lipa MORE