In Tigray, Ethiopia, Tsadekan, who is seven months pregnant with her fifth child, is at the Hawelti Health Center for what should be her third antenatal care (ANC) visit after skipping her second appointment. “I didn’t know that I needed to come back. I thought I only come back [to the health center] if I felt unwell,” says Tsadekan. She was not alone in her assumption. In fact, mothers missing ANC visits was recently a top problem for the Hawelti Health Center. Read more…
Partnering for a Cultural Transformation in Information Use: Reflections on DUP’s Journey in Strengthening Ethiopia’s Health Information System
In February, after six years of working with the Ministry of Health (MOH), regional health bureaus (RHBs), universities, and partners to implement the MOH’s Information Revolution (IR), the Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP) concluded its first phase of...
