ALERT-Action Leveraging Evidence to reduce perinatal Mortality and Morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa is a hospital maternity-based quality improvement and implementation science project in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda-coordinated by Karolinska Institute. alert.ki.se
Join us on a journey to Malawi as we showcase the transformative redesign of maternity wards to enable companions to be present during labor and birth. Discover how these changes are enhancing the birthing experience and supporting families!
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We are thrilled to share a digital photo gallery showcasing our stakeholder engagement efforts in Uganda as part of the ALERT project. Explore the different activities we conducted to foster impactful collaborations and community participation!
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Data for whom? Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania
🔗Read full paper gh.bmj.com/content/9/11/e016…@JilMolenaar
*WE ARE LIVE*
Welcome to today’s event:
Closing the Gap to reduce perinatal mortality- Lessons learned from the ALERT project to improve intrapartum care in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.
Horneres to have the opening by director if @ITMantwerp Prof @lutlynen
Dr Effie Chipeta from Malawi explaining how the co-design process to design interventions is context related for the different settings, but that many themes were common across multiple countries e.g. pain management. #ALERTdisseminationevent
Prof Hussein Kidanto presenting the ALERT perinatal E-registry that contains data from over 150 000 births across 16 hospitals in Benin, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania.
Join us tomorrow for our event: Closing the gap to reduce perinatal mortality.
14:00 Presentations
15:30 Interactive sessions around the @ITMantwerp campus.
For online participations, sign up here:
itg.zoom.us/webinar/register…
You won't regret joining this event!
**Tomorrow** at the ITM Rochus campus or online.
14:00 - presentations
15:30 - interactive spaces
Zoom registration shorturl.at/ooMXe
“Implementing a policy is something else”: Governance of complex health information systems in Tanzania.
🔗medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Our research on governance aspects of the health management information system in Tanzania revealed the following:
3. The current health management information system therefore relies on individual motivation and negotiation, with institutional enforcement of accountability was weakened by limited resources.