Each year during the DHIS2 Annual Conference, we conduct interviews with attendees who volunteer to tell us their thoughts about DHIS2, and how it supports the work that they do. We publish these interviews in a video series called “What Does DHIS2 Mean to You?” and we’re looking forward to sharing them with you! Follow along as we publish all of the videos from this year’s series.
For @peterkaberia Peter Kaberia, a statistician with the African Population and Health Research Center, DHIS2 enables his organization to support ministries of health in 37 countries to analyze reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) indicators.
“I would look at it in the context of the changing global health funding landscape,” he said. “DHIS2 provides a platform where you can access routine health facility data, which helps in monitoring and analyzing RMNCAH indicators, and we are able to help ministries of health make timely decisions by using that routine data.”
Learn more about his experiences with DHIS2, and how he hopes to examine the impacts of climate change on maternal health.
Dr. Andrew Kwiringira, a senior epidemiologist with Uganda’s Ministry of Health, says that DHIS2 provided a lifeline for the country in the wake of funding cuts from the U.S. that disrupted health data reporting.
“We had a crisis across the whole country,” he said. “DHIS2 was already there for us. We’ve been able now to digitize more than 30 registers within DHIS2 using Tracker.”
Learn more about how Uganda is using DHIS2, and how he hopes to expand its use across the country.
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What does DHIS2 mean to you? For Khlood Fahti Alnaeem @Khlood_Alaneem, a case management officer for the Sudan National Malaria Control Program, DHIS2 means targeted interventions in a large country with resource constraints.
“By having locality level, facility level information, you can tailor your interventions at a very micro level,” she said. “So that’s very useful when you have limited resources to work on in a big country.”
Watch the full video to learn more about her work how Sudan uses DHIS2 for malaria control.