FoneAstra

Many health care facilities in South Africa do not utilize milk banks because of perceptions that the milk may be unsafe. Monitoring and verification of milk temperatures, which must reach high pasteurization temperatures to be effective, is a challenge in resource-limited settings. FoneAstra, a cell phone technology, is designed to accurately monitor and validate temperatures during flash-heating. It provides real-time, audiovisual feedback to users, allows automated supervisor monitoring, and archives results for review and audit. Flash-heating is a simple, effective way to pasteurize breast milk that is more affordable for human milk banks in low-resource settings than standard commercial-grade pasteurization.

http://sites.path.org/southafrica/maternal-newborn-and-child-health/human-milk-banking/

Local implementation: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal

Fully implemented and active from 07/11/2011

Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and the Human Milk Banking Association of South Africa.

• Children under 5
• New born

• Community health worker
• Family/care giver
• Nurse and midwife
• Self-use/patient

• Maternal, newborn, infant and child health
• Nutrition
• Patient safety
• Reproductive health

• HIV/AIDS
• Neonatal infections
• malnutrition

• Access to information and services
• Decision support systems
• accurately monitor and validate temperatures during flash-heating of breast milk

• Satellite
• Wired network
• Wireless network

• Audio-visual
• Computers / Servers / Tablets
• Mobile phones
• Sensors
• Smartphones

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This project is evaluated? Planned