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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis technical report was produced by the African Strategies for Health (ASH) project in collaboration withthe United States Agency for International Development’s Africa Bureau (USAID/AFR). Funded by USAID/AFR, the overall objective of ASH is to contribute to improving the health status of populations across Africathrough identification of and advocacy for best practices, enhancing technical capacity, and engaging Africanregional institutions to address health issues in a sustainable manner. ASH provides information on trendsand developments across the continent to USAID and other development partners to enhance decisionmaking regarding investments in health.Gayle Mendoza, Sarah Konopka, Lungi Okoko and Edna Jonas all contributed to the production of thisdocument. We extend our thanks to USAID, in particular, Senior Health Adviser Ishrat Z. Husain, andProgram Analyst Kaitlyn Patierno from the Africa Bureau, as well IT/KM Advisor Peggy D’Adamo and AdamSlote from the Global Health Bureau, for their support and inputs.We are grateful for both the mHealth Working Group and the mHealth Alliance and their staff. The mHealthWorking Group provided a readily available platform for engaging with project implementers and forexchanging mHealth project information, and the mHealth Alliance recommended projects to be includedand shared valuable information about mHealth interventions not featured in the first two editions.Our thanks also goes to the people and organizations whose mHealth applications are featured in this paper.They are pioneers in creative and useful mHealth applications that are designed to improve health systemsand achieve health goals. We realize that there are many more people world-wide who are actively involvedin mHealth applications for health. While time and budgetary constraints did not permit a more extensivereview, we would like to acknowledge them for their own contributions to the field.