• Director(s):

    BRACHET (PHILIPPE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2011

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Can mobile phones decrease infant mortality? Probably, if we are to believe the initiative launched in Bamako by the NGO Pesinet, which puts new technology at the service of preventive medicine.

For Pesinet, the observation is simple: in Africa, over half of deaths due to infectious diseases could be prevented if they were detected in time.

The NGO has therefore implemented a system of home visits, in which basic health data is transmitted to the dispensary by SMS.