VOA慢速英语:Using a Mobile Phone to Improve Mother and Child Health

Different groups around the world are working to expand the uses for mobile technology in health care. Patricia Mechael is executive director of an organization called the mHealth Alliance.
世界各地的不同组织都努力推广手机技术在医疗中的使用，帕特里夏•米歇尔是移动健康联盟的总裁。

"In the world, there are six billion mobile phone subscriptions in a population of seven billion people. And the most rapidly growing markets are those in developing countries. Africa, as a continent, you have widespread adoption, where three or four years ago the penetration rates were 20 percent or 30 percent, and now they're getting upwards of 60 percent in some countries."
“全世界70亿人口中有60亿人使用手机，发展最快的市场是发展中国家。整个非洲大陆的手机使用很普遍，三四年前这里的使用率为20%到30%，现在一些国家有60%的人在用手机。”

She says a lot of work is being done to use mobile technology for mother and child health.
她说目前在母亲和儿童健康方面很多地方都用到手机技术。

"Earlier work had been to look at mobile technologies and HIV and AIDS. And so we have some great evidence on the use of mobile for things like treatment adherence and compliance and care management."
“早期的工作着力于手机技术和艾滋病毒及艾滋病，有证据表明，利用手机可提高治疗依从性、用药依从性和医疗管理。”

More than 4,000 people from 50 countries have been meeting near Washington this week. The meeting is the fourth annual mHealth Summit. It brings together experts from what the organizers call the mHealth ecosystem. This includes nongovernmental organizations, governments and the technology industry.
来自50个国家的4000人本周参加了华盛顿附近的会议，即第四届移动健康峰会。组织者称，来自移动健康生态系统的专家汇聚一堂，包括非政府组织、政府和科技行业。

In 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched a public/private partnership called the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, or MAMA. It includes the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Johnson & Johnson company, the United Nations Foundation and the mHealth Alliance. Kirsten Gagnaire is the global director of MAMA.
2011年国务卿希拉里克林顿发起了名为“移动联盟孕产妇行动”(MAMA)的政府与民间伙伴关系，其中包括美国国际开发署、强生公司、联合国基金会和移动健康联盟。

"There's about 800 women a day globally, and about three million babies every year, that die from pregnancy and childbirth-related causes."
“全球每天有约800名妇女、大约每年有三百万婴儿死于怀孕和生产相关事件。”

She says the MAMA program sends messages to mobile phones to educate women about their health.
她说MAMA项目通过手机向妇女进行卫生教育。

"We have a set of messages that cover pregnancy and the first year of a baby's life."
“我们提供怀孕相关的信息，也就是婴儿生命的第一年的信息。”

She says health messages may also be sent to a pregnant woman's husband and mother-in-law, for example. That way they too can understand what needs to be done.
她说卫生短信还发给孕妇和丈夫和婆婆，这样他们也可以了解怎么做。

Patricia Mechael of the mHealth Alliance says messages can be text or voicemail.
移动健康联盟的帕特里夏•米歇尔说这样的信息可以是文本短信或声音邮件。

"For example, you can have a pregnant woman in Bangladesh registered into a system that provides messages that are timed to her pregnancy that can help her know what to do, when to do certain things. And then when to go in for specific treatment issues, or prevention care like immunizations and that sort of thing."
“比如，孟加拉国的孕妇在提供与自己孕期对应信息的系统上注册后，就可知道怎么办了，什么时候该做什么，何时进行特定的治疗，以及诸如免疫这样的预防手段。”

Even simple text messages can be important sources of information to people without Internet access. And Kirsten Gagnaire of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Health says even online users may not understand all the information available.
对那些无法上网的人来说，即使很简单的短信也会成为重要的信息来源。移动联盟孕产妇健康的Kirsten Gagnaire说，甚至那些网络用户也无法理解所有接触到的信息。

"You have to be able to read through thousands of entries that come back to you on Google, for example, and then figure out what that information means to you. And that's not something that someone in a poor, illiterate or semi-literate kind of situation can do."
“比如，我们必须能浏览完谷歌上数千条条目后才明白有关信息，而对于那些贫困、文盲或半文盲的人来说，就很难了。”