Journal article

Reducing Stock-Outs of Life Saving Malaria Commodities Using Mobile Phone Text-Messaging: SMS for Life Study in Kenya

Health facility stock-outs of life saving malaria medicines are common across Africa. Innovative ways of addressing this problem are urgently required. We evaluated whether SMS based reporting of stocks of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) can result in reduction of stock-outs at peripheral facilities in Kenya.

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2013

Journal

PLoS ONE

Volume

1

Type

Journal article

Categories

  • Service delivery

Diseases

  • Malaria

Countries

  • Kenya

Tags

  • Data reporting
  • Mobile phone
  • SMS

WHO Regions

  • African Region

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