## MomConnect Connecting Women to Care, One Text at a Time
### MomConnect: Connecting Women to Care, One Text at a Time
#### Metadata
* Author: [[jnj.com]]
* Full Title: MomConnect: Connecting Women to Care, One Text at a Time
* Category: #articles
* URL: <https://www.jnj.com/our-giving/momconnect-connecting-women-to-care-one-text-at-a-time>
#### Highlights
* MomConnect empowers new and expectant mothers to seek the care they need by leveraging the widespread use of mobile phones in South Africa. It includes three key components: A stage-based weekly text messaging service A national pregnancy registry A help desk for mothers to ask questions and provide feedback A link between the feedback and the health services, to improve quality of care.Since August 2014, over 933,666 women have received MomConnect messages; over 738,777 confirmed pregnancies have been registered with the national database to date; and 34,887 health workers have been trained on MomConnect.
* In 2011, Johnson & Johnson was a founding member of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), a public-private partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Johnson & Johnson, the mHealth Alliance, the United Nations Foundation and BabyCenter that brought information to expectant mothers on their mobile phones who otherwise had limited access to prenatal care.
# MomConnect: Connecting Women to Care, One Text at a Time
## Metadata
- Author: [[jnj.com]]
- Full Title: MomConnect: Connecting Women to Care, One Text at a Time
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.jnj.com/our-giving/momconnect-connecting-women-to-care-one-text-at-a-time
## Highlights
- MomConnect empowers new and expectant mothers to seek the care they need by leveraging the widespread use of mobile phones in South Africa. It includes three key components: A stage-based weekly text messaging service A national pregnancy registry A help desk for mothers to ask questions and provide feedback A link between the feedback and the health services, to improve quality of care.Since August 2014, over 933,666 women have received MomConnect messages; over 738,777 confirmed pregnancies have been registered with the national database to date; and 34,887 health workers have been trained on MomConnect.
- In 2011, Johnson & Johnson was a founding member of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), a public-private partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Johnson & Johnson, the mHealth Alliance, the United Nations Foundation and BabyCenter that brought information to expectant mothers on their mobile phones who otherwise had limited access to prenatal care.