Team Member Spotlight: Thomas Bonzo
Jun 1, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Thomas Bonzo, Driver from the Tanzania office.
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Creativity: The Key to Developing Tanzania’s Electronic Immunization System
May 27, 2015
Posted in Products
Creativity doesn’t always come to mind when one thinks about software design and development. Creativity is typically reserved for the arts. Innovation on the other hand is often used to describe new software. But I have always found creativity to be an essential part of the custom software development process, particularly when deployed in low-resource environments. Working with PATH on the BID Initiative’s development and launch of an immunization registry in Tanzania is a good example.
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Team Member Spotlight: Breese Arenth
May 25, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Breese Arenth, Project Specialist from the Digital Health Solutions team in the Seattle office.
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Reaching the Hard to Reach: The Maasai in Tanzania
May 22, 2015
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In the last 10 years, the Maasai have been among the most affected communities by measles. Pastoral communities like the Maasai in the rural Arusha region of Tanzania are very hard to reach, making it even harder to provide the necessary second dose for the measles vaccine to be effective. In fact, the presence of this community played a part in our decision to start the BID Initiative in Arusha as our pilot region. Angela Cheche, a health worker at Kaloleni Health Facility in the Arusha region, recalls how measles previously took the lives of many children, but the introduction of vaccines has made a big difference.
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Team Member Spotlight: Esther Mushi
May 18, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Esther Mushi, Senior Program Assistant, from the Dar es Salaam Tanzania office.
Read MoreBLN Design Collaborative Preview, 25-28 May 2015
May 13, 2015
Posted in BID Learning Network (BLN)
As a part of these ongoing efforts, the BLN will host a Design Collaborative meeting from 25-28 May, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. This meeting will bring managers of national immunization programs and logisticians from 15 West, East and Southern African countries to focus on evaluating requirements and systems for logistics data generation and management.
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Team Member Spotlight: Abdallah Shamte
May 11, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Abdallah Shamte, Senior Project Administrator from the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania office.
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Honoring the Role of Mothers
May 8, 2015
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When we think about Mother’s Day globally, you might think of flowers or a nice gift to show how you appreciate your mother. However, in some countries, like our demonstration country, Zambia, it is often being thankful for healthy children and the opportunity to spend time with family.
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Health Workers Successfully use WhatsApp to Solve Problems
May 7, 2015
During the testing phase of interventions in four health facilities in the districts of Meru and Arusha, we established a WhatsApp group as a communication forum for healthcare workers.
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BID Initiative April 2014–March 2015 Annual Report
May 6, 2015
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The month of March marked the end of year two for the BID Initiative! Our Annual Report is now available detailing our progress over the year and what’s to come in year three. Year two saw us fully staff two national offices, establish key partnerships in our demonstration countries, Tanzania and Zambia; as well as align with global partners, and start work in two test regions.
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