Mobile phones for community health workers of Bihar empower adolescent girls.
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a Dimagi, Inc., 585 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 3, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Correspondence to Vikram Kumar (email: [email protected]) Ruby, a 16-year-old girl who has recently entered puberty, sits next to an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), named Sangeeta, who lives in Ruby’s village Kalua in Bihar and provides basic health services and education as a volunteer for India’s National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Sangeeta had recently finished a three-day training on using a new mobile phone application called CommCare as a job-aid tool for counselling adolescent girls and women on menstrual hygiene, sexually transmitted diseases, and family planning methods.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- WHO South-East Asia journal of public health
دوره 1 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012