Reducing stock-outs of life saving malaria commodities using mobile phone text-messaging: SMS for life study in Kenya.

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...

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Main Authors: Sophie Githinji, Samwel Kigen, Dorothy Memusi, Andrew Nyandigisi, Agneta M Mbithi, Andrew Wamari, Alex N Muturi, George Jagoe, Jim Barrington, Robert W Snow, Dejan Zurovac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3547931?pdf=render

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