BAOBAB HEALTH TRUST

Mrs Sabine Joukes

Ministry of Health Malawi HIV-AIDS department, Malawi

Ministry of Health (general), Malawi

St. Gabriels, Malawi

The Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France

Haukeland University, Norway

Dignitas, Belgium

Liverpool-Malawi Wellcome Trust, UK

Center for Disease Control (CDC), USA

Clinton Hiv-Aids Initiative, USA

sabine.joukes@baobabhealth.org

tel: +265 999988441

Baobab Health Trust Aims to Lead in the improvement of Health through Information and Communication Technology in the developing world.

Baobab achieves this, by building, deploying and maintaining, innovative, robust and sustainable health care information systems suitable for the developing world in collaboration with government and health care workers.

All Malawians visiting health care centres.

Touchscreen computer-technology for point-of-care health care support.

Barcode scanners used to scan bar-codes, identifying patients

Open Source Software e.g. Linux, MySQL, OpenMRS, Ruby on Rails, Firefox

Services: software development, system deployment and support, maintenance

At this moment, the Baobab Electronic Data System has been mainly used to support the HIV-AIDS centres/ patient care.

We are now expanding to include in-patient diagnosis and treatment

outpatient diagnosis and treatment

Diabetes and Hypertension clinic

Future developments:

HIV-AIDS testing system

Maternity support system

Pharmacy support system

30 employees currently,

40 by mid 2010