Information Technology To Improve Epidemiological Data

The recent downward revisions of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s malaria estimates[1] in September 2008 and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)'s HIV/AIDS estimates in late 2007 have demonstrated the unmet need for accurate epidemiological data to underpin health interventions. BMI highlights the work of the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, which is harnessing information technology in an attempt to address the scarcity of accurate, timely epidemiological data in

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