Download the ChildCount Kenya Initial Report
For the past 7 months, ChildCount+ has been in active use in Sauri, Kenya a community of 65,000 people. ChildCount+ is being used by 100 CHWs to actively monitor for the 9,500+ children under-five registered into the system for malnutrition, malaria and other childhood illness.
To learn more about this initial pilot please download the ChildCount+ Kenya report here.
“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people.” — Dr LEE Jong-wook, Former Director-General WHO (2004-2006)
ChildCount+ is an mHealth platform developed by the Millennium Villages Project aimed at empowering communities to improve child survival and maternal health. ChildCount+ uses SMS text messages to facilitate and coordinate the activities of community based health care providers, usually community health care workers (CHWs). Using any standard phone, CHWs are able to use text messages to register patients and report their health status to a central web dashboard that provides a real-time view of the health of a community. Powerful messaging features help facilitate communication between the members of the health system and an automated alert system helps reduce gaps in treatment.
ChildCount+ is free and open-source software built with RapidSMS both available under the LGPL.
