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Weak health information systems across Africa are undermining efforts to track preventable deaths, identify emerging health threats and direct essential healthcare services to populations that need them most, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report has revealed. The assessment, covering 40 countries in the WHO African Region, identifies significant weaknesses in death registration, health data...

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Quality health data can help authorities to identify emerging threats and take lifesaving action, but a new report reveals critical gaps in Africa’s health information systems.

2 days ago · news.un.org

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A health worker in a busy facility has patients to attend to, medicines to monitor and records to update. But when different health programmes operate separate reporting systems, the work of documenting patient and service information can become repetitive. Information collected once may have to be submitted several times through different platforms to meet the […]

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Every day, health facilities across Africa generate information about patients, diseases, medicines, births, deaths and the delivery of healthcare services. As more of this information moves into digital platforms, questions about who controls it, how it is used and who benefits from it are becoming increasingly important. For Dr Benson Droti, Team Lead for Health […]

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