{"id":6474,"date":"2023-05-10T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T06:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2023-05-31T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:21:36","slug":"reach-out-mbuya-wins-best-innovation-award-for-e-health-hiv-service-delivery-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"Reach Out Mbuya wins Best Innovation Award for E-health HIV Service Delivery during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The E-health for HIV Service Delivery program has emerged as the winner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sph.mak.ac.ug\/\">Makerere University School of Public Health<\/a>\u00a0\u2014MakSPH&#8217;s innovation challenge focused on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. The program outshone five other innovations to earn the coveted award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/\">Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative \u2014ROM<\/a>, a community-based non-governmental organization working with urban and rural poor communities across six districts, won a prize of Shs.14.3 million to further develop their innovative solution implemented under the E-health for HIV Service Delivery program.<\/p>\n<p>ROM implemented an electronic community health information system and the Uganda EMR mobile during the pandemic, enabling community-based surveillance and access to equitable health services. These eHealth solutions capture real-time data on community ART services, home-based care, TB screening, and more, enabling community health workers to provide remote patient support and data management. The panel of 13 multisectoral and multi-disciplinary members highly scored the E-health for HIV Service Delivery program based on these innovative solutions.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.go.ug\/\">Ministry of Health<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tasouganda.org\/\">TASO Uganda<\/a>, and MakSPH, with funding from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobalfund.org\/\">Global Fund<\/a>, called for innovative designs from individuals and organizations, including community-based and civil society organizations, to ensure continuity of HIV, TB, or malaria health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The innovations were expected to take the form of new services, practices, processes, service delivery models, or technology, implemented between March 2020 and November 2022,&#8221; said Dr. Dinah Amongin, a health scientist and lecturer at MakSPH, who served as the Principal Investigator of the innovation documentation study. &#8220;They did not necessarily have to be scientific, but rather have social impacts, be people-centered, and target community people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sph.mak.ac.ug\/news\/reach-out-mbuya-wins-best-innovation-award-e-health-hiv-service-delivery-during-covid-19\">For more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The E-health for HIV Service Delivery program has emerged as the winner of\u00a0Makerere University School of Public Health\u00a0\u2014MakSPH&#8217;s innovation challenge focused on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. 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