OPT-SMC: Guinea-Bissau project
Strengthening health management information systems to assess the impact of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in three regions in Guinea Bissau
Guinea-Bissau has been implementing SMC in four regions (Bafata, Bolama, Gabu and Tombali) since 2016. DHIS2 is a global public health information management system, developed by the HISP Centre at University of Oslo. Although Guinea-Bissau has been using the DHIS2 system since 2015, there is a need to improve the implementation of this data collection system for malaria, including operationalization of the SMC dashboard, and augment capacity to access and handle data resulting from DHIS2.
The OPT-SMC project in Guinea-Bissau aims to evaluate the impact of SMC by strengthening capacity in the use of DHIS2 to evaluate routinely collected programmatic data in Guinea-Bissau. This study will use retrospective data collected using the DHIS2 platform to assess the impact of SMC given in three regions (Bafata, Gabu and Tombali) on children aged 0-59 months. The project will start in 2024.