Safer Deliveries project in Tanzania

Abstract

Steve Ollis Chief Operating Officer at D Tree International gave this presentation at the April 15 2014 meeting of the mHealth Working Group This presentation covers the results from the Safer Deliveries project in Tanzania In the first phase of the project 2010 2012 D tree used an open source mobile health mHealth application to reduce the informational logistical and financial barriers to in facility births and post partum care Steve s presentation includes project achievements lessons learned and scale up Through the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation s Grand Challenges Explorations Phase II D tree is building on the successes of the first phase to improve enhance and scale up the project