Assessing women's empowerment through the Uganda Health Information Network

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2010

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Makerere University, Kampala, UG

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Six hundred women health workers at health centres in Uganda were equipped with mobile technology. They reported they could more easily access information regarding disease outbreaks, treatments, drugs and prescriptions, which also reduced unnecessary referrals. As PDAs lowered costs of personal and official communication, incomes of health workers grew. The project promotes increased accessibility through increased supply of equipment, more training of users, strengthening of monitoring and feedback so as to remedy emerging issues in a timely manner, and equipping critical project actors with gender skills so they are able to incorporate gender issues into the project sustainably.

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UGANDA, GENDER ANALYSIS, WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT, HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, ICT ACCESS AND USAGE, WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS (PDAS), COMPUTER LITERACY, CAPACITY BUILDING, PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL, MEDICAL PERSONNEL, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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