The impact of the mHealth application on CHW attrition rates will be assessed comparing levels of motivation, supervision, and activity across three CHW intervention groups. The impact of the mHealth application on referral rates and follow up rates will be assessed by comparing the accuracy, completeness and timing of the monitoring information across the intervention groups.

This abstract presents a novel approach for North-South partnerships in human resources for health capacity building through development of an E-HL. The northern partner in this model is Sudanese expatriate health professionals in UK and Ireland.

Task shifting implies that health workers with limited training are able to assume responsibility for more complex care. In order for this to be successful, the training must be linked to an integrated support system that includes detailed specification of tasks required, real time monitoring and supervision, job aids to support point-of service (POS) care, and functioning referral networks. This talk presents both a conceptual model of this end to end support system and specific examples of how it works in practice.

To determine the geographical and skill mix distribution of qualified health workers in Uganda; identify the current efforts to improve the quality of available information on staff distribution; determine the level of integration of existing data on staff distribution; and identify the successes and challenges of producing high quality information on staff distribution.

We consider implementation of a national HMIS in four different African national settings, two in a production stage and the other two at advanced stages of rollout. Each has taken different approaches to the geographic architecture of the system.

A toll free mobile telephone intervention tested in one sub district of Bangladesh and prior to initiation and at project end qualitative assessments were conducted to understand the utility of mobile phone in increasing communication for maternal and neonatal complications.

In this case study, we present avenues where the use of mobile phone technologies may present an opportunity to deliver preventative and treatment healthcare information among communities and at workplaces within resource-low economies.