In the health sector, IICD supports programmes that enhance the
quality of healthcare delivery. These benefit patients, health workers,
medical students, policymakers, and the general public. Our programmes
focus in particular on:
Strengthened capacity of health workers and healthcare
services.
We help healthcare professionals and rural health workers access
up-to-date health information, engage in peer-to-peer
consultations, and learn through tele-consultations and Internet-based
programmes.
Health efficiency. We improve the management of health
information through the use of ICT.
Health sensitisation. We support the use of ICT applications
that provide communities direct access to relevant health information,
in particular via text messaging.
Who did we reach in sector health?
What did we achieve?
In 2010, IICD:
was active in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Tanzania,
Uganda and Zambia
supported 19 health and hygiene projects and 5
health-related policy formulation processes and leveraging
programmes
reached some 5,000 end-users and more than 623,000
indirect beneficiaries, similar to 2009.
Our health programmes reach a broad section of society. The health
sensitisation projects for example reached out to the less
privileged– people living in rural areas, with little or no formal
education and a below-average income. The projects focussing on
improving health efficiency reached out to a wider public. Because most
of the hospitals participating in the health efficiency projects are at
the district level, they provide care to a broader cross-section of the
citizenry.
For an overview of our projects in the health sector, see the
project overview
list.
Our partners in health
Our work in the health sector is supported by various partners from
the public, private and non-profit sectors. In 2010, these included,
among others:
Case story Mali
The IKON project demonstrates how ICT can benefit the health care sector in developing countries.
Projects in sector health
These include leveraging programmes, policy formulation processes and projects on the ground. The project in Burkina Faso belongs officially to sector livelihoods, but is in fact about health sensitisation.
