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When women are empowered to make informed decisions regarding their family planning needs, their families are more economically secure, educated, and healthy. Yet, it is estimated that worldwide there are 215 million women and girls whose family planning needs are not being met. As a result, 75 million unplanned pregnancies each year lead to negative health outcomes for both women and their families.
Dimagi and our partners have been working together to develop programs and technologies that increase women’s access to reproductive health care. By using mobile applications, CHWs are better able to share sensitive messages, track family planning commodities, & ensure safe & efficient follow-ups with patients after procedures.
Case management allows CHWs and supervisors to register & track patients, pregnancies, rates of contraception, and family planning commodities.
Data validations and display conditions, or skip logic,both reduce time spent and increase the accuracy and completeness of data collection at the point of entry.
Mobile apps support real-time data collection both online and offline, enabling counselors to provide appropriate messages based on the data collected.
Applications allow clinics to report on suppliesin real time, improving commodity procurement and resulting in fewer stock outs.
SMS features allow CHWs to communicate with patients to remind them of appointments and prescriptions and notify them of the stock outs.
Multimedia offers a more engaging counseling session and may help ease any discomfort around discussing the sensitive topics associated with reproductive health.
Mobile logisticians armed with CommCare manage the stock of all family planning commodities in 1,400 facilities across Senegal.
Community health workers use CommCare to track the performance of a postpartum IUD initiative for more than a year after delivery.
Community health workers use CommCare to monitor geographical demand for preferred methods of family planning across Tanzania.
Mobile logisticians armed with CommCare manage the stock of all family planning commodities in 1,400 facilities across Senegal.
IntraHealth and Dimagi have worked together to develop and deploy a CommCare application for the management of all family planning commodities in 1,400 facilities across Senegal. In this deployment, mobile logisticians equipped with commodities travel to each facility to perform inventory management tasks, track indicators, calculate resupply levels, and delivery commodities on the spot. Each logistician is equipped with a tablet running CommCare, which allows them to easily record, manage, and review stock information for hundreds of facilities. This intervention is currently being scaled nationally in Senegal.
Community health workers use CommCare to track the performance of a postpartum IUD initiative for more than a year after delivery.
The postpartum IUD initiative aims to address the postpartum contraceptive needs of women by training community midwives, health workers, doctors, and delivery unit staff in postpartum IUD counseling and insertion. As part of this project, project staff are using CommCare to collect baseline and intervention data, including data with women at the hospital after delivery, at nine months, and at 18 months after delivery.
Community health workers use CommCare to monitor geographical demand for preferred methods of family planning across Tanzania.
D-Tree International and Dimagi have developed a CommCare application that monitors geographical demand for specific kinds of family planning methods. CHWs collect information on which method of contraception a woman is using versus which method she would have chosen had it been available. This data can inform programs on which forms of contraception are preferred.
Watch as our team takes you through the design of a basic
app in CommCare
Updates and advice from our world-class partners and Global Services team:
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics are improving healthcare for over 214 million women looking to avoid pregnancy.
The Asociacón Corazón del Agua is using CommCare to implement the first university-level midwifery course in Guatemala.
The Coalition is an partnership of 333 members to increase access to affordable, quality reproductive health supplies in low- and middle-income countries.
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“We are ready to design
applications that are everything
from simple and straightforward to
those with challenging and unique
designs and use cases.”
- Ted Barlow, President
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control the experience of our fieldbased
data collectors, which
drastically reduced human error.”
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