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This is the second session of the "Capacity Development & Professionalization" TechNet-21 webinar series.
JSI, VillageReach (VR) and CHAI collaborated across several countries and
supply chains to explore the challenges of dissemination, interpretation and
use of global technical goods.
Dado que COVID exige tamaños de sesión más pequeños, es más importante que nunca considerar un tamaño de vial de vacuna más pequeño para adaptarse mejor a los tamaños de las sesiones.Esta...
Le COVID exigeant des sessions de plus petite taille, il est plus important que jamais de réduire la taille des flacons de vaccins pour mieux les adapter à la taille des sessions.
Cette...
With COVID demanding smaller session sizes, it is more important than ever to consider smaller vaccine vial size to better tailor to session sizes.This presentation will share results from an...
PATH’s Living Labs Initiative used human-centered design methods to gather feedback on proposed labels for COVID-19 vaccine vials and cartons. Healthcare workers in Kenya and Zambia interacted with...
PATH’s Living Labs Initiative used human-centered design methods to gather feedback on proposed labels for COVID-19 vaccine vials and cartons. Healthcare workers in Kenya and Zambia interacted with...
Frontline immunization workers play a critical role in improving vaccine access and equity. A new initiative aims to leverage their firsthand experience to co-create innovative delivery solutions.
Health care workers in Kenya and Zambia are helping design vaccine preparedness and distribution plans.
PATH’s Living Labs Initiative accelerates the pace of health innovation by co-creating with users to rapidly design, test, and scale solutions to their long-standing challenges. We apply...
In order to unify the labeling requirements for COVID-19 vaccines that will be supplied through the Access to COVID-19 Tools (Act) Accelerator, draft models for the vial labels and packaging have...
From January 2017 through July 2018, the DPCP conducted implementation research using quantitative and qualitative methods in Central and Luapula provinces in Zambia. The country was selected to...
This executive summary details the key findings from the 5-dose MCV research in Zambia: improved coverage, reduced wastage, no cold chain constraints, and healthcare workers were more willing to open...
This case study describes the impact of changing to 5-dose measles containing vaccine in Zambia with improved coverage, lower wastage rate and no cold chain constraints.
As part of the work the BID Initiative undertook starting in 2013 to improve countries’ collection, quality, and use of immunization data, PATH partnered with countries to identify the critical...
Led by PATH, in partnership with the governments of Tanzania and Zambia, the BID Initiative is grounded in the belief that better data, plus better decisions, will lead to better health outcomes. BID...
The BID Learning Network invites you to view a webinar presentation on The Data Use Partnership. The use of reliable information from a well-designed health information system is critical for:...
Between 2013 and 2018, BID designed, developed, and introduced an electronic immunization registry in three regions in Tanzania and one province in Zambia. The Initiative’s financial records were...
The governments of Tanzania and Zambia identified key data-related challenges affecting immunization service delivery including identifying children due for vaccines, time-consuming data entry...
Global and national stakeholders have acknowledged that routine immunization programs face significant challenges related to the collection, availability, and use of data for planning, management,...
This webinar focuses on the practical aspects of managing the cold chain for a vaccination program in an environment that is less than ideal. The presenter highlights the successes, challenges,...
Sustainability has been a core principle of the BID Initiative from its earliest days. Planning for sustainability focuses on four key areas: policy, institutional factors, technical issues, and...
The BID Initiative embedded a peer learning network within its structure to ensure that countries collaborated to identify shared problems and test shared solutions. The BID Learning Network (BLN)...
Although electronic registries are a critical intervention to improve data availability, quality, and use, they are only one piece of the equation. The change management process ensures that digital...
Oliver is a nurse in a busy, urban facility. She’d spend hours sifting through dense registry books to find which children were due for vaccination and ensuring she had enough stock. Once kids were...
Digital health interventions have rapidly expanded our ability to record health data, which can lead to improved health systems and better decision-making. In this lightning talk from the Global...
The BID Learning Network (BLN) invites you view a webinar presentation on “Building Capacity in Immunization Data Quality and Use through Mentorship: Introducing the BID Regional Mentors.” In its...
L’histoire de l’initiative BID illustre la valeur de la planification collaborative sous la conduite des pays, celle du leadership et de l’appropriation, de la conception centrée sur...
The BID Initiative Story highlights the value of collaborative, country-driven planning; local leadership and ownership; user-centered design; and continuous learning and adaptation when developing...
The BID Initiative has released its midline monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report for Zambia. This report presents the evaluation findings from data collected at baseline and midline of BID...
The BID Initiative took a holistic approach to address immunization data challenges by packaging together information system products, data management policies, and evidence-based practices with...
In this webinar, the presenters share the lessons learnt in Tanzania and Zambia during the implementation of data quality and data use interventions at district and sub-district levels. The audience...
The BID Initiative’s rollout strategy builds health workers’ awareness, access to information, motivation, and empowerment to act, as well as the skills they need to improve data quality and use...
Tanzania’s and Zambia’s national EIRs were one of the most significant and intricate interventions developed to address critical data-related challenges. The creation of a national-level...
Electronic immunization registries (EIRs) have been central to the BID Initiative’s work. EIRs help produce and manage data, providing people who use them in their daily work with better access to...
Global stakeholders and national governments openly acknowledge that routine immunization programs and new vaccine introductions face significant challenges related to the collection and use of...
Routine immunizations and new vaccine introductions are two best buys in global health. While immunization coverage has increased dramatically in the last decade, more must be done to ensure every...
The BID Initiative Annual Report: April 2016-March 2017 details progress and activities between 2016 and 2017 in Tanzania and Zambia. In year five of the BID Initiative, data quality and use...
The BID Learning Network (BLN) hosted a webinar which elaborated on RED-QI (Reaching Every District incorporating Quality Improvement approaches). The “RED-QI” approach is a process that supports...
The BID Initiative Learning Network (BLN) hosted a webinar which elaborated on the establishment, use, and added value of a web-based Immunization Information System (IIS) in Albania. The talk...
The BID Initiative Learning Network (BLN) recently hosted a webinar which outlined the basics for understanding and developing health enterprise architecture. Aimed at both technical and...
The BID Initiative has released midline and endline monitoring and evaluation (M&E) reports for Zambia and Tanzania. The Zambia midline M&E report presents the evaluation findings from data collected...
This literature review was conducted to identify, review, and analyze published and grey literature to inform the behavior, organization, and practice activities to be conducted as part of the BID...
This BID Initiative Theory of Change document focuses on Primary Outcomes 3 and 4 of the BID Initiative. This narrative elaborates on the BID Initiative hypotheses related to scaling and diffusing of...
This BID Initiative landscape analysis of existing projects reviews past and current approaches, strategies and interventions employed to drive the use of data among managers and decision makers for...
The BID Initiative conducted a literature review to support the development of a theory of change model that enables effective monitoring and evaluation of the activities related to the goal of...
The BID Initiative has partnered with countries in Africa through the BID Learning Network (BLN) to design information system products and introduce new practices that can be tested in a few...
Digital tools play an important role in supporting front-line health workers who deliver primary care. This journal article explores the current state of efforts undertaken to move away from...
The BID Initiative presented at the 2017 Global Digital Health Forum in Washington DC regarding the design, roll out, and scale up of electronic immunization registries in Tanzania and Zambia.
The BID Learning Network (BLN) met in Lusaka, Zambia in November 2017. This slide deck includes the presentations from throughout the BLN meeting.
The BID Initiative presented at the NetHope Conference in October 2017 regarding the project's measurement, sustainability, and scale up of data quality and use interventions.
A data use culture describes the customs, dispositions, and behaviors of a particular group or organization to support and encourage the use of evidence to inform their decision-making. If...
The BID Initiative Annual Report: April 2016-March 2017 details progress and activities between 2016 and 2017 in Tanzania and Zambia. In year five of the BID Initiative, data quality and use...
The BID Learning Network (BLN) Design Meeting brought together Ministry of Health representatives from 15 sub-Saharan African countries. The BLN participants included those involved in country...
The BID Initiative Theory of Change (ToC) document includes a graphic and this narrative explaining the challenges identified by the BID Initiative demonstration countries, the hypotheses behind the...
The BID Learning Network (BLN) is a platform for peer learning and information exchange intended to enable strong collaborative links between peers from different countries in support of improved...
The BID Learning Network (BLN) is a platform for peer learning and information exchange intended to enable strong collaborative links between peers from different countries in support of improved...
The BID Initiative Annual Report: April 2014-March 2015 details progress and activities between 2014 and 2015 in Tanzania and Zambia. In year two, BID fully staffed two national offices, established...
Guide for health managers and service providers on HPV vaccination in the context of a (3 doe schedule ) demonstration programme in Zambia
Guidelines for the health works involved in the HPV vaccination in the Zambian demonstration programme (Note: 3 dose schedule)
Objective To describe the implementation and feasibility of an innovative mass vaccination strategy – based on single-dose oral cholera
vaccine – to curb a cholera epidemic in a large urban...
This document summarises the current state of the country’s immunisation supply chain and how additional value and efficiency can be achieved. It specifically examines overall costs, health worker...
Growing interest in integration of logistics management information system (LMIS) and health management information system (HMIS) data to improve supply chain performance and service delivery led...
The approach to review interagency collaboration in medicines supply chain examined the subject in the context of current literature and evidence in effective collaboration. As such, it did not focus...
Zambia had a population of just over 13 million in 2010 of which 60.5% lived in rural areas. The total fertility rate is high at 5.9 per woman and higher in rural areas. Zambia is classified as a...
Background
Significant progress has been made to increase access to vaccines in Africa since the 1974 launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Successes include the introduction of...
BACKGROUND:
Introduction of new vaccines in low- and lower middle-income countries has accelerated since Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance was established in 2000. This study sought to (i) estimate the...
Introduction: Under five mortality in Zambia is unacceptably high and diarrhoea is the third leading contributor. The Programme for Awareness and Elimination of Diarrhoea (PAED) sought to support the...
Objective
To characterize the impact of widespread inventory management policies on stock-outs of essential drugs in Zambia’s health clinics and develop related recommendations.
Methods
Daily...
As BID’s third year closes, this report outlines its progress and many lessons learned to date.
This evaluation assesses the extent to which the Advanced Market Commitment (AMC) pilot has achieved its stated objectives and the overarching goal to “reduce morbidity and mortality from...
The BLN is a platform for peer learning and information exchange intended to enable strong
collaborative links between peers from different countries in support of improved data...
BACKGROUND: Defining the number and location of sprayable structures (houses) is foundational to plan and monitor indoor residual spray (IRS) implementation, a primary intervention used to control...
This flyer briefly describes the use and benefits of an eLMIS system in Zambia.
This report highlights the achievements made in expanding access to vaccines in Africa and discusses some of the remaining challenges to achieving universal access to vaccines. The timing of this...
This report, prepared by the Secretariat for the Decade of Vaccines Global Vaccine Action Plan, serves as the basis for the independent review. As was the case in 2013 and 2014, this report reviews...
The Gavi Full Country Evaluations was a prospective study from 2013 to 2016 in four countries: Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia. The study aimed to understand and quantify the barriers and...
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for both populations and healthcare systems are vast. In addition to morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, the pandemic also has disrupted local health systems,...