Paper: Putting health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa on the map

We published a(renewed) call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in sub-Saharan African countries.

Published in BMC Medicine

- We discuss why the availability of health facilities databases (HFDBs) remains a challenge in SSA and the way forward.

- The lack of progress in curating HFDBs is no longer due to technical issues but due to a lack of financial resources , political will, and coordination needed to create and maintain HFDBs.

- HFDBs will be achievable if there is a regional commitment from countries and health system stakeholders.

- Open data sharing will be key

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Paper: When health data go dark

The importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future

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Event: Second stakeholder meeting in Conakry - Discontinu_Cities February 2025

The second stakeholder engagement meeting for the “Discontinu_Cities” project took place in Maferinyah on 31st January and 1st February 2025. The research team gathered with the technical advisory group to discuss and finalize the research protocol of the second work package.