WHO 2013.
Study characteristics | ||
Methods | Secondary objective: case study describing program implementation | |
Participants | Health facility workers Context: Tanzania, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo |
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Interventions | SMS for Life sent weekly SMS to health facilities requesting stock information. Facility‐based health workers used mobile phones to send information on relevant stocks using SMS messages, on a weekly basis. These data were made available as summary reports to the District Medical Officer and District Pharmacist, who could make decision about transfer of commodities. | |
Outcomes | N/A | |
Notes | The program described here is the same intervention as the one described by Barrington 2010; Githinji 2013; Mikkelsen‐Lopez 2014, with differences in the products about which stock data were reported. |