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The application of digital health technologies has the great potential to make a health system more responsive to health needs of the population. Thus, the Government of Tanzania, through the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC), is committed to the effective application of digital technologies to improve population and individual health outcomes by facilitating evidence-based actions at all levels of the health system. The National Digital Health Strategy 2019–2024 outlines how Tanzania intends to leverage digital health technologies, build on the achievements, and experience from the implementation of the National eHealth Strategy 2013–2018. This strategy outlines what needs to be done from 2019 to 2024, to fast-track progress towards attainment of universal health coverage and the health-specific sustainable development goals. The strategy will also address challenges encountered in the digitalization of the health sector in Tanzania.

PATH has been a trusted partner to Vietnam’s Ministry of Health for four decades. We’ve supported its work to expand sexual, reproductive, maternal, and child health services, and to address infectious and vaccine-preventable diseases. Today, as rapid social and economic changes transform Vietnam, we are leveraging our thought leadership with the government, the private sector, civil-society organizations, and social entrepreneurs to advance equitable access to good health. Specific efforts include developing sustainable responses to diseases like HIV and tuberculosis (TB); supporting local stakeholders to develop their own health solutions, like domestically produced vaccines; and acting quickly to address new and emerging health threats, such as non-communicable diseases, hospital infections, drug resistance, and environmental dangers.

PATH has been contributing to Myanmar’s health care transformation since 2012 and supports the government’s commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. PATH works with the government, nongovernmental actors, and the private sector to leverage partnerships, policy advocacy, new technologies, and innovative approaches to address inequities in key health areas—nutrition, vaccines and immunization, sexual and reproductive health, infectious diseases, and noncommunicable diseases.

This national strategy is to be used to guide elimination of human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This document describes the methods and procedures that were determined to provide the optimal results. The methods and procedures described in this document have been utilized by PATH and other researchers with favorable results that correlate well with ELISA results and/or microfilaria staus. The goal of this document is to broadly disseminate these methods and procedures as best practices for utilizing DBS specimens with the rapid tests to the onchocerciasis community.