{"id":2225,"date":"2011-05-24T10:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2011-05-24T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:59:52","slug":"project-mwana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/24\/project-mwana\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Mwana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2226\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/21-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>A collaboration between Frog Design, UNICEF and the Zambian government is part of a wider effort to deploy mobile technology for social innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Deployed in Zambia and, soon, Malawi, Project Mwana allows for the efficient testing of infants and gives reminders for followup care. Photo: Merrick Schaefer\/UNICEF<\/p>\n<p>For mothers and newborns, early medical diagnostic testing is critical to health, especially for detecting and treating HIV\/AIDS. But in some developing countries, sending and receiving a blood sample from an extremely remote location is an arduous task that can take between two and five months. Project Mwana, a collaboration between UNICEF Innovation Initiative, the Zambian government, Frog Design and other partners, is changing that by utilizing Rapid SMS technology to deliver the test results instantly. \u201cTest results have a significant impact on infant mortality, especially if retro-viral treatment is needed,\u201d says Erica Kochi, a communications specialist at UNICEF Innovation. \u201cTime is of the essence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaboration between Frog Design, UNICEF and the Zambian government is part of a wider effort to deploy mobile technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[212,641,258,347,299],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-profit-organizations","tag-children","tag-mwana","tag-malawi","tag-ngo","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}