Pesinet uses mobile technologies and the proximity work of health agents from the communities served to reach families where they live and work and drive demand for early-treatment.

The service encourages families to get to the doctor as soon as the first symptoms occur and facilitate access to affordable care by partnering with existing community-based public healthcare structures.

>> A unique package of healthcare services
From prevention to early-treatment and follow-up, Pesinet offers a comprehensive healthcare service for low-income families.
>> Innovative use of mobile and internet technologies
Pesinet uses mobile and internet technologies and the work of proximity health agents trained in house to bypass the lack of medical resources.

Pesinet offers a unique package of healthcare service including prevention, early-detection, treatment and follow-up as well as a financing mechanism that allows affordable access to healthcare.

• A periodic health follow-up backed to a distant database

Proximity agents visit children every week, twice a week for children under one. The visit is either made at home or in an everyday place like schools or markets where people gather and where the agent can easily find mothers and children. Gathered data is sent daily to a secure, centralized database.

In case an emergency is identified by the agent, it is indicated in the mobile application and an «emergency ticket» is given to the patient to come and see the doctor the very same day.

• A medical examination for free in case of illness and access to discounted medication

Patients in Mali usually come to the doctor when it is too late. It is too resource-intensive for the practitioner to do a frequent tour to follow-up on families’ health because homes are dispersed and medical personnel is scarce. With Pesinet, the doctor has access to hundreds files in less than 2 hours every day, right from his working place. This multiplies one doctor’s capacities and bypass the lack of trained medical personne

• A mutual health insurance system

Subscribers pay a monthly fee of less than a euro to get access to the whole service: periodic health check-up by agent, remote monitoring, medical examination and access to discounted medication. This is less than current average health budget per person and builds the basis for a new perception of prevention’s value.

• A hygiene and sanitation awareness-raising program

Agents are trained to spread good practices on hygiene and sanitation. They lead by example in their daily work, encourage simple changes like hand-washing, sleeping under mosquito nets and raise awareness of mothers on the importance of breast-feeding for young children’s nutrition.

>> See the key steps of the Pesinet health monitoring service

>> Watch how it works in the field

For a monthly fee of less than 1 euro, the equivalent of a day of earning for 90% of Malian, families access:

• a weekly health check-up of their child by our agents
• free medical examination whenever the doctor remotely identifies abnormalities
• discounted medication to treat the child
• free follow-up examination if needed

In countries where most people do not benefit from social security and where 70% of the cost of healthcare relies on families, offering an affordable mutual insurance system to facilitate access to treatment can dramatically change perception of the value of prevention and encourage families to get to the doctor as soon as the first symptoms occur.

Pesinet is a paying service to allow financial self-sustainability of the service on the ground and job creation in the communities covered. Monthly fees paid by families cover the cost of the program when 1000 subscribers are reached. Start-up funds, training and technical assistance for each sites are paid thanks to grant-funding from our donors.

Watch the flash animation and read a summary of the key steps of the Pesinet health services.

>> Our proximity health agents periodically weigh children, check symptoms of generic diseases on pregnant women and spread hygiene and sanitation practices.

>> Health data is transferred in real-time and presented to the doctor of the nearest Community Health Center through a website that flags abnormalities.

>> Families access free doctor examination and half-price medication within 24 hours after check-up.

>> Subscribers pay an affordable monthly fee for the service – less than 1€, the equivalent of a day of work for 90% of Malian people.

>> Each Pesinet site allows to follow-up on the health of over 1000 subscribers.

Pesinet is a not-for-profit international organization delivering a simple prevention and early-care system to support the improvement of healthcare policies and practices in countries lacking medical resources.

Pesinet was designed to offset the weaknesses of existing public healthcare systems and provide affordable healthcare services to help prevent, detect and treat diseases in time thanks to the periodic and cost-efficient monitoring of key health data.

Pesinet defines itself as a public service partner that strengthens existing public health policies and community structures in their attempt to tackle endemic child and maternal mortality.

Pesinet works in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Mali to deploy Pesinet in primary care structures across the country.

>> Social Impact
Our social outcomes: reduced mortality, reduced spending on benign diseases, increased awareness of prevention and sanitation, job creation.
>> Images from the field
Watch some images of our pilot project in Bamako Coura.