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Apr 13, 2015

Vaccines, our shared responsibility

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Global

The Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers’ Network (DCVMN) held its fifteenth annual meeting from October 27–29, 2014, New Delhi, India. The DCVMN, together with the co-organizing institution Panacea Biotec, welcomed over 240 delegates representing high-profile governmental and nongovernmental global health organizations from 36 countries. Over the three-day meeting, attendees exchanged information about their efforts to achieve their shared goal of preventing death and disability from known and emerging infectious diseases.

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Mar 3, 2015

BLN Webinar: Introduction and Formation of User Advisory Groups in Arusha

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Tanzania

The Better Immunization Data Learning Network (BLN) recently hosted a webinar entitled “Introduction and Formation of User Advisory Groups (UAG) in Arusha”. This webinar focused on the engagement of groups that are composed of users at different levels of the health system, who have a certain level of authority that enables them to validate the project. These users provide leadership for iterations of interventions as well as champion the process of improving immunization information systems.

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Dec 31, 2013

BID Initiative Tools Developer Summit Report

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In December 2013, the Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative hosted a Tools Developer Summit at the PATH office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought information and communication technology (ICT) developers together with the BID Initiative team, partners, and donors to explore the challenges in immunization systems in Africa. The participants focused on how ICT could be used to address three key challenges: beneficiary interfacing, patient identification, and supply chain management. Over the course of two days, participants shared their expertise and ideas, and discussed opportunities for ongoing collaboration in order to solve these problems.

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Dec 1, 2014

BLN Design Collaborative Preview, 1st-4th December 2014

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Global, BLN Design Collaborative Preview, 1st-4th December 2014

As a part of these ongoing efforts, the BLN will host a Design Collaborative meeting from the 1st- 4th of December, 2014, in Lusaka Zambia. The meeting will bring together eHealth personnel from Ministries of Health in ten countries in West, East, Central and Southern Africa, to evaluate requirements and systems for immunization data generation and management.

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Oct 10, 2014

Toolkit: Bridging the Gap between Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance

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Global

In many countries, Ministries of Health (MOHs) and Ministries of Finance (MOFs) determine which health services are delivered, when, where, and for whom. MOHs are responsible for setting national health policy and managing the day-to-day delivery of public health services, but they are dependent upon MOFs for establishing funding levels and releasing the necessary funds to finance MOH operations. Designed for health sector managers, the new Toolkit for Ministries of Health to Work More Effectively With Ministries of Finance, presents four different tools to help MOH staff better manage their resources and communicate more effectively with their MOF counterparts.

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Sep 10, 2014

Q&A with the BID Learning Network Director: Part 2

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Tanzania, Zambia, Q&A with the BID Learning Network Director: Part 2

We recently sat down with Chilunga Puta to learn more about her new role as the BID Learning Network (BLN) director. In the second part of her Q&A, Chilunga shares more details about the BLN and why it’s important to BID’s overall success.

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Aug 1, 2014

Understanding the needs and wants of Community Healthcare Workers

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South Africa

This work builds on the recently published End Consumer Primary Research and aims to inform health and mobile stakeholders about the users of mHealth services in the public sector. The GSMA expects this market knowledge to lead to product design that is more aligned to the needs of users (consumers and health workers), greater adoption and achievement of economies of scale and sustainability, and robust partnershipsbetween public and private sector stakeholders that ultimately reduce the widespread fragmentation of mHealth services in South Africa.

 

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Aug 21, 2014

Q&A with the BID Learning Network Director: Part 1

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Tanzania, Zambia

As the BID Initiative rapidly expands its team to gear up for country implementation, we welcome Chilunga Puta who will serve as director of the BLN, based in Zambia. We recently sat down with Chilunga to learn more about her role and what she looks forward to as she steps into this critical position. Stay tuned for part two of her Q&A series where Chilunga will share her thoughts and insight around the importance of peer learning and how the BLN is critical to success.

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Jul 2, 2014

The Use of mHealth for Material Health Care in Ethiopia

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Ethiopia

"For the research in this thesis, we mainly followed a phasebyphase evaluation and usercentered approach. Crosssectional surveys were initially conducted to assess the role of HEWs and identify gaps in improving maternal health care service delivery. Then, considering mobile technologies as a potential solution for improving the performance of the health workers, we developed and evaluated a set of appropriate smartphone mHealth applications using open source components, including a local language adapted data collection tool, health worker and manager userfriendly dashboard analytics and maternalnewborn electronic forms/protocols. This thesis includes the technical details of the application and electronic protocols."

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