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In places with limited testing capacity, environmental surveillance of sewage and surface water may offer early warnings of outbreaks.

Learn about the new approach that is moving the country closer to ending local transmission of the preventable disease.

Johanes N. Rwenyagira remembers what it used to be like to conduct supervisory visits in his region of Morogoro. As the country’s second largest region, located in Eastern Tanzania, supervisory visits were a necessary part of assessing the performance and current health trends of the area. But the fragmented, paper-based process was riddled with challenges.

While the hypothesis that better data use will lead to better health seems simple, Marty Gross, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, knows just how complex it is—because most investments in better data use start with technology, and the real impact comes from building and understanding the needs of the data users.