Information technology facilitate malaria eliminating

Using mobile internet and intelligent equipment facilitate malaria eliminating practice in reducing the cost. 

There is a best practice in eliminating malaria called  mass drug administration (MDA) recommended by WHO. 

One of MDA practices is located in the Comoros, Africa, operated by a Chinese team from Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) persisting 10 years. 

Through the communication with the team leader Prof. Song, we found that the effective execution and large-scale application of MDA mode still faces many problems. One of the most important problem is the cost of project operation and management is too high.

It is caused by several reasons.

1) MDA mode requires a large number of manpower. 

2) Employing local people is the only choice, however most of them are less-educated.  

3) paper report is hard to be preserved and analysed.

our solution is

1) using intelligent and iot equipment replaces manpower.

2) using mobile internet technology realizes remote and automatic monitoring and directing. 

3) using electric report replaces paper report.

Through our effort, we hope the cost of MDA mode can be dramatically reduced. And then this method can be applied in many other areas and save much more people in struggle. 

Due to the using of mobile internet and iot equipments, the process management of MDA is reengineered. 

1) The local agents can be managed and directed on remote meanwhile the quality of work will be well controlled. 

2) The data collection is digitalized at source, making the transmission, storage and analysis of data simple and normative.

Our solution is based on information technology.

1) Using face ID combining voice ID to make identification.

2) Using satellite positioning to locate the local agent.

3) Using mobile internet to transmit data.

4) Using microgrid technology to provide power for self-help iot equipments. 

Our goals with next 12 months including,

1) the research and development of  the Malaria prevention and control management information system based on mobile internet

2) the research and development of the self-help epidemic prevention station

3) training more than 100 local people to using the new system

1) help the Comoros achieve the goal of eliminating malaria by 2020.

the World Health Organization (WHO) listed Comoros as among the six African nations on course to eliminate malaria by 2020.

2) apply this system in other areas which have already adopt MDA mode in eliminating malaria such as  the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.

3) upgrade the system to apply to other infectious disease prevention and control.

Our partner from Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has worked in the Comoros more than 10 years. 

They helped the Comoros government establish the malaria elimination, prevention and control system including training a number of local people to be the antimalaria agents.

According to their  effective work, the malaria is almost eliminated in two islands of the Comoros, saving lots of local people's life.

Therefore, our project will obtain the supports from the Comoros government and local people.

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Our partner from Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has long-term good relationship with WHO

Our team come from Peking University, and we can obtain the support from it.

If our solution is proved practicable, we can obtain 3 things:

1) a system can effectively manage local agents with low-cost.

2) a suit of equipment can deliver self-help healthcare service.

3) digitization of the  work process including data recording, transmitting, storage and analysis.

Based on these, we can provide service for other organizations like  Gates foundation who want to carry out healthcare projects in the Africa. 

It is a win-win cooperation, which will promote the income of local people and reduce the cost of project execution at the same time.  And we get reasonable revenue according to the value we create. The final organization form could be no-profit organization or social enterprise.

We want to find the group who are making efforts in the same field and find the people with the same value. As a worldwide platform, Solve is one of the best for us without doubt.

Through solve we expect to find cooperator, advisor, partner and other stakeholders who can help us make our prototype become true no matter on technique improvement, business model design, organization mode design or any other aspect.

One of the key barriers for our solution is how to design and establish an affordable solution for communication and power supply in the area without basic public infrastructure.