Publications by authors named "Yves-Rolland Kouabenan"
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- - VillageReach, in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health in Kinshasa, DRC, launched an initiative in July 2022 to integrate COVID-19 vaccinations with routine immunizations at two healthcare facilities, aiming to boost vaccination coverage during the pandemic.
- - A case study utilizing key informant interviews and data analysis showed that this integration effectively maintained COVID-19 vaccine rates while significantly improving routine immunization, especially for under-immunized and zero-dose children.
- - The success of this initiative was driven by community health worker involvement, targeted strategies, accessible locations, and strong data management, indicating that similar approaches could enhance immunization efforts in urban communities.
Background: The Ministry of Health in Côte d'Ivoire and the International Training and Education Center for Health at the University of Washington, funded by the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, have been collaborating to develop and implement the Open-Source Enterprise-Level Laboratory Information System (OpenELIS). The system is designed to improve HIV-related laboratory data management and strengthen quality management and capacity at clinical laboratories across the nation.
Objective: This evaluation aimed to quantify the effects of implementing OpenELIS on data quality for laboratory tests related to HIV care and treatment.
Purpose: Côte d'Ivoire has a tiered public health laboratory system of 9 reference laboratories, 77 laboratories at regional and general hospitals, and 100 laboratories among 1,486 district health centers. Prior to 2009, nearly all of these laboratories used paper registers and reports to collect and report laboratory data to clinicians and national disease monitoring programs.
Project: Since 2009 the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Côte d'Ivoire has sought to implement a comprehensive set of activities aimed at strengthening the laboratory system.
Background: The Ministère de le Santé et de l'Hygiène Publique in Côte d'Ivoire and the international community have invested in health information systems in Côte d'Ivoire since 2009, including electronic laboratory information systems. These systems have been implemented in more than 80 laboratories to date and capture all test results produced from these laboratories, including HIV viral load (VL) testing. In 2018 the national HIV programme in Côte d'Ivoire requested international support to develop real-time tools such as dashboards to aggregate and display test-specific data such as HIV VL testing to support the country's programmatic response to HIV.
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