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School Malaria Parasitaemia Survey (SMPS) in CMIS

Summary

Tanzania National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) conducts School Malaria Parasitological Survey (SMPS) every two years, the most recent survey was conducted in July, 2023. The survey involved about 800+ selected primary schools across the country, in which approximated 60,000 students were interviewed and some were tested for malaria. Following deployment of the Malaria Composite Management Information System (CMIS) which is a DHIS2 based system, NMCP wanted to use DHIS2 for collecting and managing data in the 2023 SMPS survey. Therefore, UDSM DHIS2 Lab proposed the use of Android DHIS2 Capture app as a tool for field data collection. Based on the analysis of the requirements, the UDSM DHIS2 lab designed and customised the SMPS tools in the CMIS system and made necessary configuration to enable the designed tools to be accessed in DHIS2 capture app for use.

Impact & Output

The survey teams successfully managed to use the DHIS2 Capture app in the 2023 SMPS survey. The DHIS2 capture app enabled the survey team to record responses from 64463 students from 885 schools which is almost 100% of the projected sample size across the entire country. Furthermore, 6618 households were visited in which the responses were also recorded by using DHIS2 capture app during last year’s SMPS survey.

Partners

NMCP

Stakeholders

Project Status

Completed

Implementation Year

2023

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