DHIS2 Newsletter - August 2025 Highlights

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The August 2025 edition of the DHIS2 Highlights newsletter is now available!

You can read the newsletter here: DHIS2 Newsletter - August 2025 Highlights
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Highlights:

  • DHIS2 recognized as a Global Good for Climate and Health by PATH Digital Square, joining only two other open-source platforms supporting climate-resilient health systems, based on its global reach and recent climate-health integration innovations.

  • Featured in UNICEF’s Digital Tool Selection Guidebook for Health Campaigns, highlighting DHIS2’s flexibility, interoperability, and readiness for national-scale deployment.

  • New collaboration between HISP UiO and IIIT Bangalore to explore integration between DHIS2 and MOSIP for linking national health information and identity systems.

  • Research from Ethiopia shows DHIS2 significantly improved maternal and child health (MCH) data use, leading to better antenatal care, skilled birth attendance, immunization rates, and service delivery.

  • Climate & Health updates:

    • Presentations in Brazil on integrating climate and dengue data in DHIS2 and using Chap Modeling Platform for forecasting.

    • Featured in Africa CDC’s Climate Change and Health: Strategic Framework 2025.

    • Studies from Mali, Uganda, and Tanzania on DHIS2 and climate data for malaria modeling.

    • DHIS2 project in Nepal featured in Wellcome Collection’s Thirst: In Search of Freshwater exhibit.

  • Policy brief on DHIS2 for Education published by GESCI, summarizing lessons from 4 years of national-scale implementation in 5 countries, showing transformation possible for as little as $2,300 USD per school.

  • HISP activity highlights:

    • Jamaica launched its first national cancer registry based on DHIS2.

    • Ethiopia exploring DHIS2 for modernizing agricultural data.

    • Sierra Leone began DHIS2 implementation for education data management.

    • Uganda launched a mental health data digitization project using DHIS2 and AI.

    • Philippines held training on its new DHIS2-based Multi-Sectoral Nutrition system.

    • Regional vaccine data training in Kyrgyzstan with multiple Central Asian and Caucasus countries.

  • Additional community updates:

    • Saint Lucia launched a DHIS2-based event-based surveillance system for public health threats.

    • Guatemala trained health workers on NCD patient tracking with DHIS2.

    • Papua New Guinea strengthened HIV data systems by integrating case-based data with surveillance.

  • Call for papers for a DHIS2-themed special issue of SSM - Health Systems (deadline: 31 August).

  • We’re hiring: Senior Frontend Software Engineer on the DHIS2 core team.

  • Two new disease-specific modules added to the DHIS2 Neglected Tropical Diseases Toolkit: Buruli Ulcer and Schistosomiasis.

  • Software updates: DHIS2 v42.1, v41.4.2 (Hotfix), v40.8.2 (Hotfix), v39.10, and Android Capture v3.2.1.

  • Academy announcements:

    • Data Visualization in DHIS2 Academy – 11-15 August, Kigali, Rwanda.

    • Server Administration Academy – 18-22 August, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

    • DHIS2 Asia-Pacific Conference – 15-17 October, Bali, Indonesia.

    • Data Use and Triangulation Academy – held in June in Oslo.

    • Francophone Academies: Data Visualization (15-19 Sept, Bamako, Mali) and Server Administration (20-24 Oct, Lomé, Togo).

  • copmonthly: Share your activities, discover top topics, and engage with the DHIS2 Community of Practice.

  • Developer meetup on 14 August featuring FlexiPortal for building customizable public DHIS2-powered web portals.

  • Watch July’s developer meetup recording on building Flutter mobile apps using the DHIS2 Android SDK.

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