Implementing DHIS 2 As The National Disease Surveillance Database in Guinea: Results and Lessons Learned from the Pilot Phase (June- October 2017)
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Research Poster Presentations Through the U S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC funded Global Health Security project in Guinea 2015 Present RTI International provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Health MoH to strengthen the disease surveillance system to better prevent detect and respond to outbreaks Guinea lacks a national database shared across the different stakeholders that enables tracking of weekly aggregate disease surveillance reports and individual cases and their laboratory results Instead each stakeholder maintains their own databases in parallel leading to duplication of effort difficulties in harmonizing data and lack of information sharing RTI is working with the MoH and key partners including the CDC and the World Health Organization WHO to implement DHIS 2 as the national disease surveillance database This poster presentation will review results from the pilot phase in 2017 and key lessons learned Presented by Eileen Reynolds Senior IT Project Manager RTI International
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Global Digital Health Forum Presentations, Global Digital Health Forum Presentations, Global Digital Health Forum, Surveillance