I posted a youtube video of Cecelia Adah, Ghana's First CHPS nurse, talking about how MoTeCH could be used to increase compliance of Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) of malaria in pregnancy, using a drug called SP.
It is recommended that pregnant women living in areas of high malaria transmission take 3 doses of SP during their second and third trimesters of pregnancy to reduce the impacts of the malaria parasite on the mother and baby, resulting in a healthier pregnancy and healthier baby. In the Upper East, many women get their first dose of SP, but compliance drops off a lot for the second and third doses. With MoTeCH, we can proactively remind the nurses to follow up on pregnant women who are overdue for their next dose of SP, hopefully increasing the proportion of women who receive all 3 recommended doses.
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