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Guest Blog: Smithsonian Using EpiSurveyor for Emerging Disease Surveillance
Today's blog posting comes from Dr. Isabelle-Anne Bisson of the Migratory Bird Center of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC. You can see photos of the project here.
Cell Phone Access in Low Resource Settings
IT News Africa reported that Smile Telecom is launching an innovative new business model in Uganda. It is a subscription service that allows consumers to buy minutes and receive a PIN that they can then use to make calls on a payphone handset. It eliminates the need to purchase a handset, which can be prohibitively expensive for some.
WHO/AFRO EpiSurveyor Rollout
Since 2006, regional/provincial health officers in every country of sub-Saharan Africa continue to be trained in the use of EpiSurveyor mobile electronic data collection software. The officers are using EpiSurveyor for the collection of information regarding clinic supervision, as well as any other data need that arises: vaccination coverage, outbreak response, etc.
Countries already trained and using EpiSurveyor include Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Uganda, Cameroon, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
