"Business unusual" said the Provincial Nursing Officer of Western Province Matron Asumpta Mateke while officially closing the Five day Training supported by UNICEF Kenya Country office.The training targeted the DHMT members of 31 districts in the province.Over 90 participants were trained and due to the large number the participants were split in to two and trained for one and a half days.This was a TOT training whose main objective is to use Mobile Phone during support supervision on Child and Maternal visit to the facilities while addressing MDG 4 and 5.The province has integrated data co

The theme of Malezi Bora for the Month of May 2011 was "Improving the Healthy Mothers and the New Born Babies".Health workers at the National level led by Mr. Benard wambu the M&E Programme officer at the Division of Division of Adoloscence and Child Health used EpiSurveyor to monitor the critical indicators in the field.The officers were assigned to all the provinces of Kenya to collect data from the clients and the health workers in the field.

We here at DataDyne are excited to be teaming up with our Peruvian partners to use MIP technology to support their ongoing efforts to protect the health of children in Peru.

The public health community recently received some great news about child mortality rates, as reported by the New York Times: the child mortality rate, the number of deaths per 1,000 children under the age of five, has dropped 28% since 1990 according to a new report published by UNICEF.

It is extraordinary to see that, even in the most resource constrained environments, progress is being made in protecting children.

Well, the Malezi Bora ("child health") week training and implementation starts tomorrow here in Nairobi at the Ministry of Health.  The activity, which involves a whole host of child health interventions, including vaccination, deworming, bednet distribution, and others, is extensively monitored and evaluated by the Ministry.

Kenya's Division of Child Health will be Using EpiSurveyor for Data collection purposes in the Survey to be carried out  between 4th and 15th / 05/2009. I instructed a team of 13 National Logisticians during a two day training (pictured) on how to collect data Using both PDAs and the new EpiSurveyor Cellphone Version.