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Jackline Oluoch is a Regional Community Health Worker Program Coordinator. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Posted by Jackline Oluoch  |  Mar 3, 2010 | 4 Comments
Health • Millennium Villages Project

The MVP introduces enhanced mobile technology to reduce child and maternal mortality

Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites. The technology was presented to community health teams at a continent-wide workshop held in Nairobi in February 2010. The ChildCount+ application utilizes mobile phone technology to enhance maternal care and care for children under 5 . . . [more]

Posted by Jackline Oluoch  |  Sep 9, 2009 | 7 Comments
Dertu, Kenya • Health • MDG Centres

Community Health Worker Training in Dertu, Kenya

The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory). In this difficult, arid area where communities move in search of water and pasture, the role played by Community Health Workers (CHWs) is vital and helps save lives. Though Dertu has a dispensary with a functional six bed . . . [more]

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