Parallel Interactive Sessions 1

Subtheme 1: Technologies supporting data for health system decision-making

Interactive session 1: Screen #1
Chair: Happiness Kumburu, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  1. Establishing Clinical Trials Registries in Africa: The Tanzanian Perspective.
                     Alambo Kanduru Mssusa, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  2. Data quality and use interventions for improved immunization services at primary health care level in Arusha and Tanga regions.
                     Saumu Juma, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  3. The Prevalence, Distribution of Diarrheagenic E.coli Categories using colony PCR and their Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns in Cross-Border

                      Counties in Kenya.
                     Willie Sang, Kenya

15:45-16:45  4. Assessment of Factors Influencing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records in Public Health Facilities in Kisumu county, Kenya.
                     Christine Semo Isemeck, Kenya

15:45-16:45  5. Expanding home-based management of malaria to all age groups in Rwanda: analysis of acceptability and facility-level time-series data from Rwanda-                              HMIS data warehouse.
                     Aline UWIMANA, Rwanda

 

Interactive session 2: Screen #2
Chair: Nkurunziza Sandra, Burundi

15:45-16:45  1. Biometrics4Healthcare: ban or embrace? A discussion around beneficiary-centred operations, privacy, and design.
                     Sebastian Manhart, United Kingdom

15:45-16:45  2. Improving the Availability of Evidence for Health Systems Strengthening Using Comprehensive iHRIS in Uganda.
                     Allan Agaba, Uganda

15:45-16:45  3. Understanding the reasons for the use and non-use of natural contraceptive methods among young unmarried sexually active men in Moshi, Tanzania:

                      a qualitative study using SMS and in-depth interviews.
                     Martha Oshosen, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  4. The use of postmarketing surveillance management information system in streamlining regulatory decision-making process: Tanzania experience.
                     Sophia Ally Mziray, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  5. A Computerized Hospital Management System: Case Study “Gitwe Hospital”.
                     Gatete Marcel, Rwanda

 

Interactive session 3: Screen #3
Chair: Olipher Makwaga, Kenya

15:45-16:45  1. Development of National Health Client Registry within a health sector as step toward enhancing continuity of care: Experience from Tanzania.
                     Hermers Sotter Rulagirwa, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  2. Evaluation of Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors among Patients Managed for Tuberculosis in Vihiga County, Kenya, 2012‐ 2015.
                     Paul Waliaula Wekunda, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. Identifying the underlying cause of death in Rwandan hospitals: Computerized method of recording, analysis, interpretation and comparison of mortality                         data collected in different clinical services and at different times.
                     Jean Paul Hategekimana, Rwanda

15:45-16:45  4. Web-based database is essential for HIV AND AIDS program management.
                     Victor Katemana, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  5. Microbiology Lab Patients Database (MLPDB).
                     Habert Tumwesigye, Uganda

 

Interactive session 4: Screen #4
Chair: Naasson Tuyiringire, Rwanda

15:45-16:45  1. The feasibility and effectiveness of evriMED for enhancing adherence to treatment among TB patients in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
                      Francis Maganga Pima, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  2. Determination of the level of congruence between GeneXpert laboratory management information system and the TIBU database for Kiambu county

                       TB patients, 2014 – 2016.
                     Carolyn Magoma, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. Characteristics and modes of discharge of patients admitted in level four health facilities in Vihiga County, Kenya 2017.
                      Paul Waliaula Wekunda, Kenya

15:45-16:45  4. Towards A Health Workforce Common Market: Standardization of Processes and Systems in the Regulation of Health Care Workers in the East African                               Community.
                      Kevin Odhiambo Lanyo, Kenya

15:45-16:45  5. Improve reporting of Adverse Drugs Reaction in Tanzania: The Use of Electronic Reporting System.
                     Alexi Fabian Nkayamba, Tanzania

 

Interactive session 5: Screen #5
Chair: Ikiriza Hilda, Uganda

15:45-16:45  1. Feasibility of using V-DOT to improve adherence to TB medication, A pilot study among TB patients in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
                      Francis Maganga Pima, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  2. Use of RP-HPLC in determining the quality of amoxicillin formulations in Nairobi, Kenya.
                      Lilian Chepngetich Koech, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. Molecular Characterization of Mycotoxigenic Aspergillus species from Kenyan cereals.
                     Christine C Bii, Kenya

15:45-16:45  4. Whole genome sequencing reveals high clonal diversity of Escherichia coli isolated from patients in tertiary care.
                     Tolbert Baltazary Sonda, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  5. Malaria patterns in Afromontane ecotone in Uganda.
                     Aggrey Siya, Uganda

 

Subtheme 2: Technologies for Disease Surveillance, Disease Outbreak Detection and Response, and Cross border mobility and disease tracking.

Interactive session 6: Screen #6
Chair: Ndizeye Zacharie, Burundi

15:45-16:45  1. Evaluation of Enriched Rapid Diagnostic Method for Vibrio cholerae Detection Against Culture in Juba, South Sudan.
                      Lameck Nyangena Ontwek, Kenya

15:45-16:45  2. PfHRP2-PfHRP3 diversity among Kenyan isolates and comparative evaluation of PfHRP2/pLDH malaria RDT with microscopy and nested PCR                                             methodologies.
                     Maureen Sarange Otinga, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. The impact of missing data on estimating HIV prevalence, incidence and causal effects for demographic sentinel surveys.
                     Neema Ramadhani Mosha, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  4. Electronic health system for morbidity surveillance in health and demographic surveillance site in rural Eastern Uganda.
                     Collins Gyezaho, Uganda

15:45-16:45  5. Monitoring of health quality using multiple Gini indices.
                     Saibal Chattopadhyay, India

 

Interactive session 7: Screen #7
Chair: Asiko Ongaya, Kenya

15:45-16:45  1. Feasibility of Using SMS to collect data on Contraceptives Use among Young, Unmarried sexually active Men in Moshi, Tanzania and Addis Ababa,                                     Ethiopia.
                     Marion Sumari-de Boer, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  2. Hygienic Practices and Prevalence of Foodborne Pathogens from Money and Cellphones among Food Handlers in Food Outlets in Nairobi, Kenya.
                     Richard Kipserem Korir, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in children with diarrhoea in slum areas of Nairobi.
                     Cecilia Mbae, Kenya

15:45-16:45  4. Indoor Residual Spraying in Northern Tanzania; its implication against malaria.
                     Alphaxard Manjurano, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  5. Reporting of MOH 731 Care and Treatment Indicators to DHIS 2 Using Kenya EMR, a case of Mbale Rural Health Training Centre, Vihiga County.
                     Esekwa Carolyne, Kenya

 

Interactive session 8: Screen #8
Chair: Ella Larrissa Ndoricyimpaye, Rwanda

15:45-16:45 1. Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of bacterial isolates from TB smear-negative and retreatment cases in selected high TB prevalence counties in Kenya.
                    Christine C. Bii, Kenya

15:45-16:45  2. Spatial distribution, prevalence and potential risk factors of tungiasis in Vihiga county, Kenya.
                     Ruth Monyenye Nyangacha, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. A survey of influenza subtypes in olive baboons in selected areas in Kenya.
                     Emmnuel Bunuma, Kenya

15:45-16:45  4. Molecular Xenomonitoring of Trypanosome in tsetse for prioritizing vector control and HAT elimination in northern Tanzania.
                      Imna Malele, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  5. Prevalence of Pfcrt and Pfmdr-1 mutations in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Chulaimbo Hospital, Kisumu County Kenya after withdrawal

                       of chloroquine.
                     Edwin Too, Kenya

 

Subtheme 3: Innovative technologies and solutions for application in, and improvement of healthcare service delivery and health outcomes

Interactive session 9: Screen #9
Chair: Irene Mremi, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  1. Implementing a kidney and urology clinical information system; context and evolution of the implementation process.
                     Elesban Kihuba, Kenya

15:45-16:45  2. Systematic review and meta-analysis, a technology tool for diseases surveillance: A case study of selected acute viral respiratory infections in East

                       Africa community.
                     Therese Umuhoza, Kenya

15:45-16:45  3. Enforcement of the laws regarding production and labelling of trans-fatty acids in fat products could reduce the occurrence of cancer,

                       cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimers disease - a study of trans-fatty acid levels in Kenyan margarines.
                     Jasmine Nehema Aloise, Kenya

15:45-16:45  4. Assessing the Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone-Based Referral System for Tuberculosis Patients in Western Kenya.
                     Robert Magomere, Kenya

15:45-16:45  5. Vijana-SMART: Piloting a WhatsApp-based support group for youth living with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya.
                      Irene Inwani, Kenya

 

Interactive session 10: Screen #10
Chair: Ms. Lina Sara Mathew Alonga, Uganda

15:45-16:45  1. New algorithm for tuberculosis sepsis diagnosis and early treatment in people living with HIV with life-threatening illness; Tanzania.
                      Kenneth Cleophace Byashalira, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  2. Development of Tanzania Health Sector Enterprise Architecture.
                     Oswald Luoga, Tanzania

15:45-16:45  3. SMS to remind pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV to take antiretroviral treatment in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania: a pilot feasibility-study.
                       Kennedy Michael Ngowi,Tanzania

15:45-16:45  4. Objective real-time feedback improves quality of manual bag and mask ventilation.
                     Santorino Data, Uganda

15:45-16:45  5. New technology for improvement of maternal, neonatal and child health care, the case of Mutaho Health District in Burundi.
                     Roland Willy Niyibizi, Burundi