Health Phone [Videos, Website]

HealthPhone™ is a personal video reference library and guide to better health and nutrition practices, for families and communities, including the illiterate, in their language, distributed on mobile phones.

HealthPhone™ provides families with their own personal reference library and guide to better health practices. Available in real time, right to those who need it, when they need it and when a health problem is about to strike, where they are, and as they are.

There is no signal or connection required. HealthPhone’s™ over 1,400 health and nutrition videos are available on the following topics:

• Timing of Pregnancy
• Births
• Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health
• Child Development and Early Learning
• Breastfeeding
• Nutrition and Growth, Immunization
• Diarrhea
• Coughs, Colds and More Serious Illnesses
• Hygiene
• Malaria
• HIV
• Child Protection
• Injury Prevention
• Emergencies: preparedness and response

This knowledge, in 61 languages, is pre-loaded on microSD chips for popular low-cost models of mobile phones – no signal is required, nor cost to download videos and other media. Users choose what they want to watch and listen to and when, wherever they happen to be.

Source: HealthPhone

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019