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Tanzania achieves digital transformation as it transitions two new regions to fully paperless immunization system

Jun 21, 2021

Digital tools are only as powerful as the individuals using them, and only meaningful if they can translate to time savings and better health data. In Tanzania, where the country’s electronic immunization registry has been in use since 2017, the country has hit a critical milestone by starting the transition to a fully paperless immunization process. Now that more than half the country has adopted the Tanzania Immunization Registry (TImR), with a commitment to scale nationally, the government has begun retiring the paper-based tools that were once used side-by-side with TImR. In the past few months it’s expanded the number of health facilities now fully transitioned to a paperless process.

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BID expands to five more regions in Tanzania, accelerating progress

Jun 13, 2019

In Tanzania, the government expanded data quality and use interventions to five more regions, including Mwanza, Njombe, Morogoro, Geita and Lindi. The Tanzania electronic immunization registry (TImR) is now being used in nine regions and 2,060 facilities in 66 districts across the country. It’s an exciting milestone for the BID Initiative because it represents the largest number of regions to implement data quality and use interventions in the shortest period of time.

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