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Strategies for Building National-Scale Longitudinal Patient Monitoring Systems for HIV Treatment and Care in PEPFAR Countries
October 2-5, 2007
Lusaka, Zambia
For more information please email Zambia-EPMS@macrointernational.com

Time

Topic

Location Presenter(s)

DAY 1: TUESDAY, OCT. 2

AMALILA

0815 – 0845

Registration

0845 – 0855

Introductions and welcome

Dr. Marc Bulterys
Country Director, CDC-Zambia

0855 – 0915

Opening remarks
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Mr. Osward Mulenga
M&E Director
National AIDS Council

0915 – 0930

Meeting goals, agenda, and expected outcomes; Purpose of the work groups; purpose of the site visits
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Xen Santas
CDC/Global AIDS Division

0930 – 0950

Global context for strengthening health information systems
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Dr. Michael St. Louis
CDC/Coordinating Office for Global Health

0950 – 1010

Longitudinal HIV data for decision making at local through global levels
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John Aberle-Grasse
CDC/Global AIDS Division

1010 – 1030

BREAK

1030 – 1110

Case Study Country – Zambia
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Smart Care Development Team

Derrick Muneene
Mark Shields
CDC-Zambia

1110 – 1150

Unique IDs—1

  • Overview and terminology
  • Clinical needs for unique IDs (a use-case approach)
    • Retrieving data from patients seen at different facilities
    • Analytical/statistical issues

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Dr. Shaun Grannis
CDC-Zambia

1150 – 1220

Unique IDs—2

  • Methodologies for generating/assigning unique IDs
  • National policy implication—Health ID vs. National ID

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Suzanne Cloutier
BOTUSA

1220 – 1400

LUNCH

1400 – 1440

Case Study Country—Cote d’Ivoire
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Dr. Salam Gueye
CDC-Côte d’Ivoire

1440 – 1530

Case Study Country—South Africa
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Dr. Chris Seebregts
Medical Research Council,South Africa

1530 – 1610

Case Study Country—Botswana
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Organizational Chart

Suzanne Cloutier
BOTUSA

1610 – 1630

BREAK

1630 – 1710

Case Study Country—Malawi
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Amy Gottlieb
CDC-Malawi

1710 – 1730

Review of workshop bibliography: summary and synopsis of key background documents
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Chris Bishop
Macro International Inc.

1730 – 1800

BREAK

1800 – 1830

Facilitators, country leads, workshop organizers only: Preparation for work group discussions

1830 – 2000

Reception

The Lawns

2000

CLOSE DAY 1

 

Time

Topic

Location Presenter(s)

DAY 2: Wednesday, OCT. 3

AMALILA

0900 – 1000

Security and confidentiality

  • Record linkage, de-identification, privacy issues, etc.
  • Concrete steps to make security/confidentiality work in individual countries

Guidelines Presentation
Guidelines Document
Applied Secutiry and Confidentiality Elements

Xen Santas
CDC/Global AIDS Division

Dr. Mark Shields
CDC-Zambia

1000 – 1030

Architectural Considerations for National Health Information Infrastructures in Resource Poor Settings
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Bill Lober
I-TECH

1030 – 1100

Selecting and implementing information systems to support HIV care
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Dr. Mark Spohr
World Health Organization

1100 – 1120

BREAK

1120 – 1145

Data preparation and analysis: issues at the facility, district, national, and international level

  • Tools and strategies for preparing public use data
  • Basic techniques for analysis of anonymized and pseudo-anonymized data
  • Record de-duplication
  • Ethical and legal issues in data use

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Chris Bishop
Macro International Inc.

1145 – 1215

Case Study Country—Rwanda
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Eddie Kariisa

1215 – 1230

Instructions to the work groups

Xen Santas
Dr. Steven Yoon

1230 – 1345

LUNCH

The Lawns

Afternoon: Five Concurrent Work Groups (Session I)

Room
Facilitator
Country lead

1345 – 1515

Following a prepared outline, each group will work with a facilitator and country lead to draft an implementation plan for a national-scale longitudinal patient record system for the country assigned to that group.

Case study 1: Zambia

Amalila
Lela Baughman
Derick Muneenee

Case study 2: South Africa/Botswana

Mupani 1
Chris Bishop
Heidi O’Bra

Case study 3: Rwanda

Baobab
Mark Spohr
Suzanne Cloutier

Case study 4: Cote d’Ivoire

Insaka
Steven Yoon
Salam Gueye

Case study 5: Malawi

Board Room (first floor)
John Aberle-Grasse
Amy Gottlieb

1515 – 1535

BREAK

1535 – 1715

Continue work group session I

Room
Facilitator
Country lead

1715 – 1815

Facilitators, country leads, workshop organizers only: Review of work group session I

Amalila

1800 – 2000

Market Place

  • Malawi – Baobab System
  • OpenMRS
  • SmartCare
  • ACONDA (CI)
  • South Arica – Electronic TB Registry (ETR)
  • University of Washington/I-TECH (Haiti)
  • Malawi–Taiwan Medical Mission
  • CareWare
  • TRACnet

Amalila

2000

CLOSE DAY 2

 

Time

Topic

Location Presenter(s)

DAY 3: THURSDAY, OCT. 4

AMALILA

0900 – 1000

Plenary – SmartCare Demonstration/Discussion AMALILA
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MOH CDC EGPAF team

Morning: Five Concurrent Work Groups (Session II)

1000 – 1300

Review of key steps, action items, and plans from day 2 sessions. Continuation of work group deliberations.

Room
Facilitator
Country lead

Same as Day 2

1300 – 1430

LUNCH

The Lawns

Afternoon: Site Visits

1430 – 1700

Each work group will travel to a separate facility to review first hand the work of Zambia’s patient care system

1700 – 1800

Facilitators, country leads, workshop organizers only: Review of work group session II

Amalila

1800

CLOSE DAY 3

 

Time

Topic

Location Presenter(s)

DAY 4: FRIDAY, OCT. 5

AMALILA

Morning: Reports from the work groups and next steps

Facilitator Country lead

0900 – 0930

Group I: Zambia
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Lela Baughman
Derick Muneenee

0930 – 1000

Group 2: South Africa/Botswana
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Chris Bishop
Suzanne Cloutier

1000 – 1030

Group 3: Rwanda
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Mark Spohr
Eddie Kariisa

1030 – 1050

Discussion

1050 – 1110

BREAK

1110 – 1140

Group 4: Cote d’Ivoire
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Steven Yoon
Salam Gueye

1140 – 1210

Group 5: Malawi
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John Aberle-Grasse
Amy Gottlieb

1210 – 1230

Discussion

1230 – 1245

Wrap Up and Next Steps
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Xen Santas, Dr. Steven Yoon

1245 – 1300

Closing Remarks
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Dr. Marc Bulterys
Country Director, CDC-Zambia

1300

CLOSE DAY 4

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