Skin diseases currently pose a threat on the general population in the global arena. Both inrndeveloping and developed countries, controlling the prevalence of skin problems is a currentrnpublic health challenge. Teledermatology studies the use of information communicationrntechnologies to deliver dermatology care from a remote distance. This project designs andrnimplements a secure, efficient and reliable mobile based teledermatology system for situationsrnwhere the mobile phoneâ€™s internet connection is slow and intermittent.rnIn order to achieve efficient data transmission over limited-bandwidth connections the systemrnkeeps the data transmitted over the network to a minimum. The application requests andrnresponses were formatted as binary messages. And in situations where the connection fails in thernmiddle of sending an image only the unsent part of the image is transmitted to the server whenrnconnection is reestablished. Thereby, achieving in efficient bandwidth usage. Security whilerntransmitting data is achieved by using secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connections.rnThe project addresses intermittent connectivity, by making use of the mobile deviceâ€™s storage tornstore the data temporarily. When a connection is reestablished the data is automatically sent tornthe server.rnThe system was tested for connection failures by programmatically closing the connection in thernmiddle of data transmission at random points. An emulator was used to simulate the mobilernapplication. The system successfully recovered from all the failures.rnThis project demonstrated the use of mobile applications to deliver teledermatology services inrnsituations where the network is slow and unreliable.