Help 150 South African Nurses Treat AIDS

Summary

Provide 150 nurses in Port Elizabeth, South Africa with mobile, digitized libraries of essential medical information for treating HIV-infected and AIDS patients at the point of care. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The most important resources in the world today are information and knowledge. Even with technologies which have brought this wealth to many, medical information is not allocated equitably. Nurses, the frontline healthcare providers in South Africa, do not have access to the Internet or to medical reference materials. To provide all Port Elizabeth Health Complex nurses with reliable, relevant, and up-to-date information, we need to purchase 150 handheld computers and train nurses to use them.

Activities

We will deploy the 150 mobile computers with a library of medical information related to diagnosing and treating HIV/AIDS patients. Nurses will be trained to use the devices and apply the information in their work with patients at the point of care.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $200
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $40,800
Total Funding Goal: $41,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will provide 150 nurses with vital medical information needed to diagnose and treat an estimated 126,000 HIV/AIDS patients in Port Elizabeth and build the capacity of nurses and other hosptial staff to use information technology.

Project Message

Health workers in the developing world are starved of the information that is the lifeblood of effective health care.
- James Grant, Former Executive Director of UNICEF

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andrew Sideman,
Development Director
AED-SATELLIFE
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 02186
United States
6179269400
Email:

Project Sponsor

The Tech Museum Awards

Organization

AED-SATELLIFE
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 02472
United States
617 926 9400
http://www.healthnet.org

Learn more about AED-SATELLIFE and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Health.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 25, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Progress Report on Partnerships and Funding

By Andrew Sideman - Director of Development, January 25, 2008 03:19 PM

During a recent visit to Port Elizabeth and the Eastern Cape I was able to meet with the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and senior members of the School of Nursing faculty. I am pleased to be able to report their deep interest in the project and their eagerness to collaborate in these efforts to build the capacity of clinical nurses at PEHC, most of whom received their nurse training at NMMU.

In addition, I had a very fruitful meeting with the head of health informatics for the Eastern Cape Department of Health, who is very enthusiastic about building on this information dissemination project the functionality needed to use the system for the collection and reporting of vital public health information (including disease surveillance).

Significantly, a major developer of communications software and systems, has just granted us $100,000 to implement the first stage of the proposed project in Port Elizabeth. With this contribution, we now have sufficient committed funds to begin the project in earnest, and we are in the process of scheduling a stakeholders meeting in Port Elizabeth in early March 2008.

We still need to raise funds from the individuals and corporations who use GlobalGiving to help us achieve our goal of building the capacity of clinical nurses in South Africa.

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