The immunisation report in AI-SDHMS Data Quality Module

Every month the South West Region’s EPI data review needs a Word report or a PowerPoint deck. The doses are already in DHIS2. The work is putting them into the format the review already uses.

That report is one of the four documents in AI-SDHMS Data Quality Module. You choose Word or PowerPoint, the region or one health district, and English or French. One format is built per run.

The denominators are the ones the program already offers: the district microplan, or the CIS population from DHIS2.

It does not log in for you

The program works offline once the files are on the computer. It never connects to DHIS2 and it holds no password. You save the export from your own browser, while you are logged in, and then you import those files.

It does not invent a number

Anything the export does not carry prints in red brackets, so the EPI unit can see the gap and complete it. A blank is not stored as zero.

The district action plan has a cause column. The report leaves it empty. If a vaccine ran out and coverage fell, both can appear. The review meeting decides whether one explains the other.

Priority actions are ranked by the number of children behind each finding, so the largest gap is first. Each line names the officer responsible and the indicator to watch.

Where to get it

The download is free. A new computer can produce four reports with no key. After that, the program opens the activation page. The key is 10 000 FCFA. It opens that computer for one year.

The same program also writes the malaria data review, the reproductive health review, and the district health report.

The Pro Library still lists the SW EPI Report Generator as its own download. This article is about the immunisation report inside AI-SDHMS Data Quality Module.

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— Dr. Nzozone Henry Fomukong