[afro-nets] Software to manage data and needs of people on antiretroviral treatment

["Hilbrand Haak" <haakh@chd-consultants.nl>]

Software to manage data and needs of people on antiretroviral treatment
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Dear colleagues,

I work with Global Fund financed HIV/AIDS initiatives in many countries, and a question I frequently get is whether good software exists to manage data and needs of people on antiretroviral treatment.

Many programmes have developed their own database package. However, I was wondering whether comprehensive software packages exist that are being used by more than one programme, and whether they have been systematically compared. Are such packages for use at the national level? Or also for regional/district level or maybe institutional (hospital or health centre) levels? Are these systems based on proprietary software? Are they free for developing countries? Based on opensource (Linux) software? Do they depend on service contracts from international consulting firms? Should international agencies (WHO? UNAIDS? Others?) provide support here?

Hilbrand

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