IMMUNIConnect Health e-Mind service

SATION

IMMUNISATION

Many programmes have been implemented by a myriad of actors.These are programmes in which vaccination is considered parents

responsibility to their children. In spite of these efforts, much is left to be desired,as the threshold is yet to be crossed into success.

THE CULTURE OF ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION (RI)IN THIS PART OF THE WORLDHAS DEVELOPED CONSIDERABLYOVER THE LAST 10 YEARS.

Nigeria continues to lose infants at one ofthe highest rates in the world

indicating thatMUCH MORE

NEEDS TO BE DONE.

Nevertheless,

Nevertheless,

IMMUNISATIONALERT

NOTIFICATION

THAT IS THE PROBLEMWHAT IS THE SOLUTION

SOFTWARE MESSAGING SERVICE THAT REACHES MOST IF NOT ALL MOTHERS IN

LAGOS STATE TO GIVE TIMELY REMINDERS OF THEIR INFANTS SCHEDULED IMMUNISATION

THROUGH A MEDIUM THAT IS CLOSE, PER-SONAL AND UNRESISTED

WHAT IS THISSOFTWARE?Riding on existing institutional frameworks, and relying heavily on political will and state government support, basic demographic data of mother and child will be col-lected in delivery rooms around the state. Since all infants must undergo the same standardised immunisation programme, an immunisation schedule is generated for each child by our proprietary software. The mother, (and key influencers like the grandmother and father) then receives reminders of each scheduled immunisation by SMS and robo call. With Nigeria having reached over 100% teledensity, the ma-jority of Lagosians (including the urban and rural poor) will be reachable by their

cell phones or the cell phones of close family members. It is well known that vaccination (i.e Expanded Programme on Immunization -EPI) is one of the most cost-effective and successful public health initiatives to improve child health. However, todays vaccination delivery system continues to prove insuf-ficient in terms of distribution and coverage. Published literature in the field sug-gests that the most effective strategies to increase coverage hover between using

community health workers and personal canvassing/outreach to the concerned.

HOWTOIMPLEMENT

Our approach is Direct Outreach using modern infor-mation and communication technology. It starts from organising data collection of the target audience, then structuring the data for more effective and efficient RI and finally, following up with adequate monitoring and evaluation. It is a researched-based consultative pro-cess of addressing knowledge, attitudes and practices through identifying, analysing and segmenting audienc-es and participants in programmes and by providing them with relevant information and motivation

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Deeper outreach penetration that will lead to increasedimmunizationcoverage.

Higher success rate isguaranteed as a result ofthis individual directone-on-one reach.

Given the significant burden of vaccine-preventable diseases in Nigeria, improving RI coverage would reduce child mortality and accelerate progress towards the MDG 4 target.

The data collection processes related to the use of the e-Mind service creates avenues to dramatically improve data collection, validation and analysis with respect to immunisation, birth, and maternal health. Direct monetary benefits for economy can also be realized

through averted treatment costs and productivity losses. Its been said that vaccines can bring economic benefits as well: according to recent research projections conducted by IVAC (International Vaccine Access Centre at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), achieving 90% immunization coverage in the next decade could add $17 billion to the Nigerian economy, 40% of which is Lagos.

A successfulimplementationof this project in Lagos State will demonstrate best practices to bereplicated in the rest of Nigeria and the developing world.

THERE WILL BE BOTH GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL DONOR ORGANISATIONS AS PARTNERS AT VARIOUS LEVELS FOR VARIOUS ROLES. THESE WILL BE SIGNED ON AS PROJECT

IMPLEMENTATION MATURES.

ProjectPARTNERS

Dr. Tosan Mogbeyiteren08057827418

tosanmogbeyi@gmail.com

Oluseye Bassir08095154155

seyebassir@me.com