Malaria
Demo of EpiSurveyor to Nigerian Government
Today Yusuf Ibrahim (in photo, with staff from HealthBridge and Canadian Red Cross watching in the back) and I demonstrated EpiSurveyor on both PDAs and mobile phones to Dr. Iyam Ugot and his colleague Mr. Ndem A. Ndiyo. Dr. Ugot is a Special Advisor to the Nigerian government for the Roll Back Malaria program, and Mr. Ndiyo is an economic advisor to the government. Both expressed great interest in using EpiSurveyor on mobiles for ongoing work, which would be great. Both indicated frustration with paper-based survey methods, and the long delays with getting data entered from paper.
Strategic Meeting: Axari Hotel, Calabar, Nigeria
Representatives of Canadian Red Cross, DataDyne, and HealthBridge met for a series of strategic meetings at the Axari Hotel in Calabar, Nigeria. This week there will be a PDA-based survey done using EpiSurveyor to determine the coverage rate of insecticide treated bednets among children less than five years old and pregnant women. The group as a whole was eager to proceed, as evidenced by the photos attached.
Evaluation of Bednets After 38 Months of Household Use in Northwest Ghana
Scientific article in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene by Stephen C. Smith, Uday B. Joshi, Mark Grabowsky, Joel Selanikio (of DataDyne.org), Theresa Nobiya, and Thomas Aapore
Abstract. A total of 255 bednets were collected 38 months after distribution in Lawra District of northwest Ghana to examine their physical condition and residual insecticide levels. Physical condition varied from nearly pristine to highly damaged. In 50 selected nets, 2023 holes
DataDyne's co-founder, Dr. Joel Selanikio, spent a month providing medical care to tsunami victims in Indonesia with the International Rescue Committee.
Dr. Joel Selanikio spent January 2005 in Aceh, Indonesia, caring for victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), he was dropped by helicopter in a remote village on the west Sumatran coast and set up a clinic treating both children and adults with traumatic injury as well as malaria and other common tropical diseases.
