Parallel Interactive Sessions 2
Subtheme 3: Innovative technologies and solutions for application in, and improvement of healthcare service delivery and health outcomes
Interactive session 11 : Screen #1
Chair: Tolbert Sonda, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 1. Experience on the use of “Damu-Sasa” as a digital blood service information system to improve service delivery at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Meggie Mwikali Mwoka, Kenya.
14:00-15:10 2. Envisioning a sustained digital patient navigation system (PNS) for effective delivery of Palliative Care in resources limited settings: case study of University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda.
Prosper Karame, Rwanda
14:00-15:10 3. Interactive voice response calling to increase the knowledge and accessibility of fertility and family planning methods: A case study of the Maasai living in Esilalei , Monduli District, Arusha Region, Tanzania.
Kennedy Michael Ngowi, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 4. A paperless system for quality provision of maternal and child healthcare in Tanzanian health facilities.
Gloria Kahamba, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 5. Impact of the 2016-2017 healthcare worker strikes on facility delivery in Kenya.
Keshet Ronen, University of Washington, Kenya
Interactive session 12 : Screen #2
Chair: Aber Jacqueline, Uganda
14:00-15:10 1. EID Point of Care Technologies: A comparison of it’s efficiency with Taqman HIV-1 Qualitative centralized testing a case of TASO Soroti-Uganda.
Simon Ojore, Uganda
14:00-15:10 2. Use of e-devices in Establishing the Risk factors for MDR TB in Bujumbura, Burundi, 2017.
Alexis Niyomwungere, Burundi
14:00-15:10 3. Improving healthcare service delivery through health information technology: A review of leadership challenge project.
Tecla Chelagat, Kenya
14:00-15:10 4. Detection of human papillomavirus DNA in tumors from Rwandese breast cancer patients.
Thierry Habyarimana, Rwanda
14:00-15:10 5. Harmonization and digitalization of facility supervision processes and tools.
Jacqueline Patrick, Tanzania
Interactive session 13 : Screen #3
Chair: Nyandwi Ramadhan, Burundi
14:00-15:10 1. Validation of Bio-rad Geenius Qualitative Assay for Confirmation and Differentiation of HIV-1/2 At Mbeya, Tanzania.
Twasime Mwang’onda, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 2. Active Reporting of ADRs of ARV drugs among adults PLWHIV in East Africa: a proposal for a pilot study on using SMS.
Marion Sumari-de Boer, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 3. Geographic patterns of referral for TB evaluation with introduction of Xpert MTB/RIF at regional referral hospitals in Uganda: Evidence for countrywide roll out.
Winters Muttamba, Uganda.
14:00-15:10 4. Cryptococcal antigenemia among HIV infected patients at a Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.
Awoke Derbie Habteyohannes, Ethiopia
14:00-15:10 5. The use of CT Scan in Burundian healthcare facilities.
Clovis Paulin Baramburiye, Burundi
Interactive session 14 : Screen #4
Chair: Ng’ang’a Murima, Kenya
14:00-15:10 1. Diagnostic comparison of urine and sputum Xpert MTB/RIF Assay for detection of TB in HIV infected patients, Mbeya, Tanzania.
Clement Wilfred Mwakabenga, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 2. Molecular Bacterial Load Assay: a NALC/NaOH decontamination free test for rapid detection of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Emanuel Dickson Sichone, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 3. Heme oxygenase-1 and neopterin plasma levels and their role in distinguishing active from latent TB in HIV/TB co-infected patients.
Esther Uwimaana, Uganda
14:00-15:10 4. Can quanti-feron-TB gold (qft-g) kit be used to monitor TB treatment in Kenya?
Asiko Ongaya, Kenya
14:00-15:10 5. Role of news technologies of communication in zoonotic TB surveillance in Chadian health centers and abattoir.
Didi Lamireou, Chad
Interactive session 15 : Screen #5
Chair: Umuhoza Thérèse, Kenya
14:00-15:10 1. Detection of RSV and other respiratory viruses using the FTD 33 multiplex PCR in febrile children in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.
Lwitiho Edwin Sudi, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 2. A template-based mHealth approach to digital record keeping from paper documentation for Sickle Cell Disease.
Bernadette Kleczka, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 3. Increasing the demand for diabetic retinopathy services by use of technology: Experiences from the Kenya DR screening project.
Stephen Gichuhi, Kenya.
14:00-15:10 4. Is task-shifting of screening for diabetic retinopathy from eye specialists to technicians accurate?
Jefitha Karimurio, Kenya.
14:00-15:10 5. Mobile Platform for Maternal Health.
Desire Habonimana, Burundi
Interactive session 16 : Screen #6
Chair: Robert Kaaya, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 1. Improved HIV patients care through proper implementation of EMR; case of Iyabe hospital.
Milliam Wakonyo Ngungi, Kenya
14:00-15:10 2. Does Mobile Phone Ownership Improve Access to EID Services in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania?
Erika Joey Kafwimi, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 3. The Policy Environment for Cross-Border Health Service Delivery: A Case Study of East African Community (EAC) Border Areas.
Missie Oindo, Kenya
14:00-15:10 4. Technology Value Proposition to improve geriatric care in philanthropic social homes in Kenya.
Mary Njeri Ngaruiya, Kenya.
14:00-15:10 5. The Emergency Transport System: Leveraging the sharing economy to reduce mortality.
Gloria Kahamba, Tanzania
Interactive session 17 : Screen #7
Chair: Ruby Mcharo, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 1. A cohort on HIV transmission rates in relation to specific ARVs uptake among infants born to HIV infected mothers.
Olipher Makagwa, Kenya
14:00-15:10 2. Antimicrobial activity of essential oils of tephrosia vogelii.
Brenda Atieno Okoko, Kenya
14:00-15:10 3. Risk and correlates of HIV Infection among Men Aged 50 to 75 Years using Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Attending at Kenyatta National Hospital: A Case Control Study, Kenya
John Kyalo Muthuka, Kenya
14:00-15:10 4. Why should I chew sugarcane and spit out its water instead of swallowing?” A Qualitative study using SMS and in-depth interviews on condom use among sexually active young unmarried men in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania”.
Francis Maganga Pima, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 5. NMR spectroscopic approach for exploring Acacia Mellifera Metabolites.
Charles Mutai, Kenya
14:00-15:10 6. Perceptions of the E-learning programs in the Burundi Health System: an online survey conducted with health personnel.
Richard Ndayishimiye, Burundi
Interactive session 18 : Screen #8
Chair: Geoffrey Mutisia, Kenya
14:00-15:10 1. LC-MS technics in Drug Discovery.
Sabina Wangui Wachira, Kenya
14:00-15:10 2. The Impact of Viral Load Samples Management System on Improving Healthcare of HIV Patients in Rwanda: Reduction of Total Turn Around Time of viral load results.
Celestin Musabyumuremyi, Rwanda
14:00-15:10 3. A Digitally-enabled Pay-For-Performance and Supervision Scheme For Managing Community Health Volunteers in Zanzibar.
Jalia Tibaijuka, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 4. A National Health Worker Registry For Universal Health Coverage.
Jamiru Mpiima, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 5. Evaluation of the use of social media by students of medicine in internship in Burundi.
Joseph Nyandwi, Burundi
Interactive session 19 : Screen #9
Chair: Geoffrey Mutisia, Kenya
14:00-15:10 1. Experiences, Challenges and Lessons Learnt in the Development of KEMRI Research Visualization Dashboard.
Gikuni Margaret, Kenya
14:00-15:10 2. Residents’ perspective on attending postgraduate’s lectures via vsee among obstetrician and gynecologist residents rotating in two distant university teaching hospitals in Rwanda.
Theodomir Sebazungu, Rwanda
14:00-15:10 3. Impact of Population History on the Reliability of Mosquito DNA Barcoding for Species Identification.
Fortunate Shija, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 4. Community and Stakeholder Engagement for Scaling up Basic Health Care Information.
Wanyama Elinor Chemonges, Uganda
14:00-15:10 5. Free access to e-health information in Iringa, Tanzania: Development, provision and testing the effect of digital health messages to rural communities.
Christine Holst, Norway
14:00-15:10 6. Mobile Data Collection Using Open Data Kit: Effect of a training conducted during a thesis data collection in Kiganda District - Burundi 2018.
Adolphe Ndoreraho, Burundi
Interactive session 20 : Screen #10
Chair: Emanuel Peter, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
14:00-15:10 1. Utility of the Makerere University dissertation digital platform: Productivity and citations of post–graduate students’ research.
Ekwaro A. Obuku, Uganda
14:00-15:10 2. Medical East African young researchers and technology usage.
Azarias Nkengurutse, Burundi
14:00-15:10 3. Enhancing System Security, Knowledge Privacy, and Knowledge Confidentiality of e-Health Care Records with Digital Technologies and Solutions towards Achievement of UN-SDGs.
Atieno Anne Ndede Amadi, Kenya
14:00-15:10 4. Adaptation of the DHIS 2 to Manage Program Data on Most Vulnerable Children in Tanzania.
Willis Odek, Tanzania
14:00-15:10 5. Teachers’ perceptions on the level of integration of ICTs in health sciences education in Bujumbura.
Joseph Nyandwi, Burundi
14:00-15:10 6. eHealth Initiatives and Systems Inventory for better eHealth coordination.
Elaine Baker, Tanzania