nderfunding, but it helps make the most of the resources available. The fact that the handsets are so familiar and easy to use is almost certainly one of the reasons why it has taken off. Our programme is an example of “mhealth” – using mobile phones for health care. It’s a promising and rapidly growing area, though there are few examples of programmes of this scope and scale. The government has adopted our application as a pilot in the region for rabies prevention. We hope it will be rolled out across Tanzania, where the disease remains rampant. Elsewhere in the country, it has already been adapted for other uses including monitoring pregnancies and birth complications, as well as for malaria control. The more that cheap, easy to use, and familiar tools such as ours can become standard practice to support health workers, the better equipped they will be to deal with the entrenched disease problems of today – and for epidemics in the future.–
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