Wireless Sensor Network to help monitor antiretroviral drug therapies in Ethiopia
I came across an interesting article on the deployment of a wireless sensors network from Intelesense Technologies in Ethiopia to monitor antiretroviral drug therapies for AIDS. The system is expected to replace paper-based handwritten data collection systems currrently used to track the progress of the disease.
Ethiopia with a population of about 70 million faces one of the direst AIDS epidemics in all of Africa with more than 2 million thought to be infected with HIV and with about one million AIDS orphans.
Health-care delivery in Ethiopia seems to face challenges like lack of power, lack of adequate telecommunication systems and widely scattered population. About 80 percent of Ethiopians seem to live outside it’s cities in remote villages and doctors travel from village to village by foot or by cart.
