Mobile Health Advisor System: For Sexually Transmitted Infections (Moha System)
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2011-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are major public health problems in Ethiopia. Because of
the clinical problems and complications that STIs cause in individual patients, STIs require
attention. This fact becomes even more worrying if we view STIs as a proxy indicator of
behaviours placing our people at higher risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV infection.
Currently there are no sophisticated laboratories for examining STI infections in Ethiopia. The
patients are diagnosed based on proper analysis of patients back ground (history taking) and
physical examinations with or without laboratory support. Due to the shortage of laboratories and
health service providers the patients could not receive efficient and effective treatment with low
cost in a short period of time.
In this work, we have proposed a Mobile Health Advisor system (MoHA system) for STI.
MoHA system for STI provides mobile and personal computer based advice on STI. MoHA is
simple to use, reachable, fast and confidential system. It incurs no extra cost for mobile users and
PC users who have Internet access. The system allows the users to select the symptoms they are
experiencing from a list of symptoms and send the symptoms to the server to get an advice on
the particular health problem identified by the system. The symptoms are sent from mobile to the
server through the GPRS mobile network and from PC through Internet connections. The server
side web application provides advice to the users based on the knowledge stored in Ontology
through reasoning process.
Keywords: MoHA system, STI, STI Ontoogy, Mobile Health
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MoHA system, STI, STI Ontoogy, Mobile Health