Anaemia project

** report 4-2010

Last middle July we started the project focused on reducing the prevalence of anaemia between all students from Santa Luzia do Itanhy to a level below 5%, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is financed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The main aspect of this project is to develop a social technology by using the low cost device developed by our partner company Exa-M. In this sense, the first step of the project was to present a draft of methodology to all local stakeholders in order to listen and discuss with then which needs to be improved and/or changed so that the technology can be used and appropriated by the local health system. From this process we got a lot of contributions which are making our work much easier, with lower cost and high community participation. We will send you more news about this project very soon.