Increasing access for maternal/Child Hea

As technology transforms the healthcare industry, experts say digital health has the potential to reshape every step of health care delivery, including for maternal and child health.

Despite the documented benefits of antenatal, postnatal health and childhood immunization and nutritherapy; their coverage continues to stagnate, and we are off-track to reach the 2025 targets for coverage and equity articulated by both the Global Vaccine Action Plan, as well as the Gavi Alliance. We believe that "demand-side" factors have an increasingly important role to play in helping accelerate progress.

Problems include low antenatal and postnatal health access that increases maternal deaths and low vaccine coverage and lack of children growth monitoring that constitute barriers to childhood development.

"SaveLives.Net", The first social network for maternal and child health that mobilizes relatives/neighbors around personalized schedules to track antenatal, postnatal health and child-hood growth and immunization in order to increase their demand and access.

Problems include public sentiment toward vaccines and lack of public’s vaccine confidence, low vaccine coverage, weak surveillance for coverage of antenatal and postnatal health. For eg. in 2018, the WHO estimates that 19.5 million infants around the world did not receive routine immunizations.

Recent studies into the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of parents about immunization have been very informative and must be considered as new vaccine programs are planned. Parents have many misconceptions about vaccines.

A recent analysis, for instance, showed that of more than 700 new moms surveyed, the majority reported both depression and anxiety, while a full 40 percent experienced a mood disorder during pregnancy. And over half of those 700-plus women were not routinely screened for mental health at any stage of pregnancy or postpartum – a major gap in care for new mothers.

Then, SaveLives.net is an antenatal health and child-hood immunization tracker, a borderless big data registering all pregnancies and birth and mobilizing relatives or neighbor around personalized schedules in order to track antenatal and postnatal health appointments via mobile technology.

Savelives.net is a first social network and data management system for maternal and children health combining Artificial Intelligence and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) technologies that does not require the internet or a smartphone to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths rate and breakdown barriers to childhood development. Savelives.net is then a digital healthcare solution with 3 components including 3 features.

• The main components includes:

• Maternal and Child Health Management System: maternal and child health recording to digitalize their monitoring ;
• Social Media: connects maternal and child health providers to pregnant women/caregivers and these one to relatives/neighbors in order to track maternal and child health appointments;
• Appointment and Counselling Management Systems: SaveLives.net provides maternal and child health histories and Counselling  to improve maternal and child health and break barriers to these preventable services.

2. The main features includes: 

- Personalizing schedules,

- Track and remind of antenatal, postnatal health and children immunization schedules appointments: By mobilizing relatives around child personalized immunization schedules to track and amplify awareness.

- Personalized Nutritherapy counciling.

Our primary target audience consists of pregnant women, caregivers and their relatives. There is an estimated number of up to 150 million of birth yearly in the world yearly and 2,5 million in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or more pregnancies that we are required to follow-up yearly. Although we initially targets the populations of the DRC, our priority is to duplicate SaveLives.net in other 9 undeveloped countries (Angola, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa) were the maternal and child health coverage rate is very low (around 60% relating to the WHO).

We are using mobile technology to solve mothers, neonatal and infant lives by increasing demand and access to maternal and children health in undeveloped countries by:

Personalized Nutritional Strategy:  Our goal is to discover the causes of ADHD. After the diagnostic assessments we lay out an individualized nutritional strategy, including special nutritional supplements and suggestions for a proper way of life of the family, while avoiding bad habits.

By mobilizing relatives around child personalized immunization schedules to track and amplify awareness, SaveLives.Net alerts the caregiver and all relatives & informs them the attached importance and then they can remind the concern caregiver. Appointments or disappointments are automatically reported to her relatives then they can raise awareness until he / she do it.

An unconventional approach & a separate social media platform, that is interested on the child health from the mother's womb up to 5 years after childbirth. Unlike other platforms, based on the personalized schedule we send reminders even to caregiver's relatives or neighbors by utilizing SMS and voice technology to help reduce maternal mortality, child mortality and detect developmental abnormalities in early stages.

none of existing solution mobilizes relatives/neighbors around personalized maternal and child schedules health and any of them is interested on the child health from the mother's womb up to 5 years after childbirth.

Thus our solution wants to be unique by the mobilization of the caregivers / mothers and their relatives / neighbors in order to involve them in the tracking and monitoring of maternal and child health services. This in order to increase the demands and access of maternal and child health services and thus reduce the number of maternal and infant deaths.

Savelives.net is a first social network and data management system for maternal and children health combining Artificial Intelligence and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) technologies that does not require the internet or a smartphone to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths rate and breakdown barriers to childhood development.

There is increase hope that mobile phone technology will assist in overcoming barriers to health system functioning and service delivery
and many developing countries are integrating m-Health components (Labrique et al, 2013). m-Health is used to refer collectively to the use of mobile technology for health-related functions, including data collection and management, service delivery, health communication and diagnostics (WHO, 2019). Despite this growth, heterogeneity of m-Health study designs and contexts continue to hinder the determination of effects on maternal and child health  outcomes. A Study of m-Health interventions which targeted pregnant women reported improvements in antenatal and neonatal service utilization, but evidence of effects on maternal and neonatal outcomes was limited,  (Sondaal et al, 2016). Mobile phones are the primary m-Health technology and the most relevant to behavior change interventions. They have largely been use routinely for communications among many various communities. Then, SaveMe will able caregivers/mothers to attend antenatal, postnatal services and other scheduled reproductive services.

Our therory of chance is focused in Engaging Communities and Shaping Social Norms Evidence based social and behavioral change activities focus on improving community awareness and knowledge, creating and continually reinforcing positive social norms towards immunization, as well as providing individualized reminders on where/when to go for services and timely motivational ‘nudges’ to help bridge the ‘intention to action’ gap.
Tracking the portfolio is predictive rather than retroactive, thus tied to a synthetic understanding of long-term ecosystem trends:

• Customers: Where are there likely to be: a) emergent needs from today’s customers, and b) new-to-the-world customer segments with entirely different needs?
• Technologies: Which new technologies, as they are invented, are likely to impact the  current competitive landscape or create entirely new marketplaces?
• Ecosystem: Which new business models will be necessary to capitalize on shifting or evolving industry dynamics?

1. Currently we do not have any served number of people because we are at the prototype stage and searching for funds to execute the pilot project.
2. In the first year of the project launch, we intend to serve 1 million.
3. In the next 5 years we will duplicate our solution in other African countries with the goal of reaching 5 million.

At this stage we have four main objectives that we are pursuing:

• Firstly we expect to establish our product/service in the market the next 12 months;
• Secondly we need to expand the solution to accommodate other devices such as mobile, tablets running both windows and iOS operating systems by the mid quarter 2021.
• Thirdly we need to grow the business by growing the network effects from at least 1 million users the 12 months; 
•  Quarterly we expect to increase market share by replicating our technology in at least 5 African countries the next 36 months and more the next 5 years.

Our biggest barrier at the moment is money, mentoring, partnerships,

experienced advice and guidance, and getting the ball rolling. We have invested all of our resources to get the project to a prototype stage. 

Now we need financial support and mentoring in getting our project out there. We need further development on our current plateform, we need to market our solution so that we can reach more women and caregivers. We need to hire people to assist with our directory listing part of our business, we need to get a data science person onboard to direct and guide us in the right direction when it comes to Big Data. We need to be on the ground to learn more about different communities and needs. We need the right partnerships.

For financial, mentoring support we are applying to opportunities like these and also others. I am constantly looking and searching for open applications that fits our project and vision.

About technical issues, we still need to work on our other digital platforms, but we need money to invest in marketing on these platforms.

According patnership, we are seeking to work with both public and private partners to gain affordable access to such facilities.

Currently we are 2 persons seen as a full time employee. Because of

our solution being technology based its been easy for us to outsource all the
work to other contractors. We have a whole team of doctors, specialists and
advisors that has written and proof read all of our content and information. 

Our team prioritizes provision of technology-based solutions that improve system development, tackle problems and improve efficiency. The team’s diversity & experience working in public health field in DRC through the international organizations makes the team a perfect fit for purpose.

AS TECHNOLOGIST, we have access to excellent technical and professional networks.  Our peers are available to augment our core abilities.

AS LEADERS, we see where people are "stuck" in their lives and show up in a meaningful way.  We understand the value of being "present" and listening to others.

AS ENTREPRENEURS, we have a passion for seeing and understanding the big economic picture before building previously unimaginable technologies.  In the end, we want to SERVE! Our team of programmers and doctor volunteered their time and effort to develop this solution and made the decision to continue to make improvements based on the needs of users and the technological evolution that is always dynamic.

We have partnered with the KYESHERO Hospital that is advocating and facilitating the implementation of this solution.

Our goal is to build a business model with multiple revenue streams:

• Maternal and Child Health Management System

For this business revenue model there will be packages according to the number of mother/caregiver to manager grouped as follows:

- Value package: A free three months of trying

- Power package: Between 1 and 250 mother/caregiver for a bill of $120 a year,

- Deluxe package: Between 250 and 500 mother/caregiver for a bill of $190 a year,

- Ultimate package: Is the unlimited package for a bill of $ 290 a year.

For the revenue projections we consider an average of the three payable categories representing 50$.

• Maternal and child Health Data For this business revenue model the price is fixed to 400$ to access to maternal and child health data.

We are looking at a combination of all. We are currently busy with open applications for funding/grants, partnerships, mentors. 

We want to also approach bigger NGOs, medical companies, hospitals and clinics to come on board. We are also looking at approaching big corporate in the industry to come on board and sponsor goods.

The challenge 'Maternal & Newborn Health' is exactly what our

mission is all about. We are passionate about increasing demand and access for maternal health and under five children’s immunization and growth monitoring through digital health technology.
Through Solve’s global network, we want to learn from and meet with potential partners. We are applying to Solve because:

1. Solve can help us build sustainable partnership with potential partners,
2. Better develop pilot studies and clinical trials to collect and analyze appropriate data,
3. Define go-to-market strategy: first to private facilities, then to public facilities through the government.

We realize that our current business model will change, we do need some guidance and expert advice on that. 

When it comes to technology, we know there is so much more we can do and develop and we would also love to connect to brilliant tech minds that could give us more ideas and advice. 

We see that there is massive potential for our solution, now we just need to get it out there, our next phase is distribution and marketing. We definitely need support there. 

We self-funded our project, but are now at the stage where we are in serious need for financial support to help us reach all our goals. 

Exposure and marketing will help us get the word out there and hopefully the numbers up.

We would like to partner with governments, Public Health Ministries, UNICEF, UNFPA and Clinics. To bring their expertise to ensure the innovation is as effective and scalable as possible. They will advise on the feasibility, acceptability and accessibility of the innovation. They will also help to ensure evidence is used to inform policy and practice.

We are qualified for this prize because:

1. Our company is an innovation created and implemented by a 20 year old girl. In addition to that,

2. The main focus of our solution is to empower women and girls health.

the Innovation for Women Prize will give us that support and push that
we need to get our solution to as many pregnant women in Africa and rest of the
world as possible. It will give us the opportunity to do the work that we so
passionately want to do and achieve. We have showed determination and
resilience, and we have already overcome many obstacles in getting our project
done. The Innovation for Women Prize will help us achieve many goals as a
start-up, women owned company with a social cause. With our current global
pandemic eHealth has become more important than ever. We feel that our solution
fills many gaps in the market and that we speak to many women and girls that
other solutions are not doing. Being part of this amazing prize will open up
many opportunities and give us some freedom to be more innovative and create
more innovative ways to improve our current technology.

Our solution targets the 10 undeveloped countries (Angola, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa) were the maternal and child health coverage rate is very low (WHO). Most of the targeted countries people lives under $2 PPP a day.

This Prize will help us achieve many goals as a
start-up, women owned company with a social cause. With our current global
pandemic eHealth has become more important than ever. We feel that our solution
fills many gaps in the market and that we speak to many women and girls that
other solutions are not doing. Being part of this amazing prize will open up
many opportunities and give us some freedom to be more innovative and create
more innovative ways to improve our current technology.

We are qualified for this prize because our solution will contibute to end maternal and children deaths.

This Prize will help us achieve many goals. We feel that our solution
fills many gaps in the market and that we speak to many women and girls that other solutions are not doing. Being part of this amazing prize will open up many opportunities and give us some freedom to be more innovative and create more innovative ways to improve our current technology.