Three Partnerships Help Jamii ni Afya Scale up
Despite the challenges that health systems and communities have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Zanzibar’s Ministry...
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Erica Layer
- Jul 6
- 3 min
D-tree joins Community Health Impact Coalition
Since 2010, we have been working with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health to improve maternal, newborn, and...
Tracey Li
- May 24
- 6 min
Data as a Global Good
Technological advances over the past two decades have led to an explosion in the amount of data that is produced and collected all over...
Tracey Li
- Apr 19
- 5 min
Machine Learning for Personalized Care
How can we personalize health services so that clients receive the care that they, as individuals, need? At D-tree, this question has...
Stefanie Kot
- Jan 11
- 4 min
DelphiCare: A Comprehensive Digital System for Pediatric HIV Care
As countries worldwide work to combat the HIV epidemic, the diagnosis, treatment, and management of HIV continue to present significant...
Lena Kan
- Dec 10, 2020
- 4 min
Afya-Tek, a people-centered digital referral system: Strategies for success
Since its launch in August of 2020, Afya-Tek, a fully digitized and people-centered primary healthcare referral system, has already begun...
Lena Kan
- Dec 3, 2020
- 3 min
D-tree launches digitized referral system, Afya-Tek, in Tanzania
In August 2020, D-tree and a consortium of partners launched the Afya-Tek digital system in Kibaha, Tanzania. Afya-Tek strengthens the...
Erica Layer
- Jul 30, 2020
- 8 min
Digital Spark #5: Implementing responsive digital health systems: Lessons from COVID-19
In early 2020, when COVID-19 emerged as a global pandemic and urgent public health crisis, countries all over the world scrambled to...
Heiko Hornung
- Jul 23, 2020
- 9 min
Digital Spark #4: Ensuring data protection and privacy
The field of digital health is rapidly changing.
As we begin seeing more and more rollouts of national-scale digital health programs...
David Hershberg
- Jul 16, 2020
- 7 min
Digital Spark #3: Embracing collaboration to achieve sustainable health system transformation
To achieve their fullest potential and truly help transform health systems, digital health programs require collaboration and partnership...
Rachel Hofmann
- Jul 9, 2020
- 9 min
Digital Spark #2: Employing a health systems strengthening approach
Over the past 20 years, the world has made incredible progress. Since the year 2000, over a billion people have risen out of extreme...
Taylor Craig
- Jul 2, 2020
- 8 min
Digital Spark #1: Setting digital health apart
Lela carries her 6-year-old son, Khari, to the health center for the fourth time this month. His fever keeps returning and, although he...
Erica Layer
- Jun 25, 2020
- 4 min
Introducing: The Digital Spark Series
One year ago today, I woke up to the news that Marc Mitchell, D-tree’s founder and digital health pioneer, had died suddenly and...
Isabel Fulcher
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Errors in estimated delivery dates: explanation, impact, and a path forward
Imagine you were told you would deliver your baby on November 19, but you go into labor on October 19 – a full month before you...
Taylor Craig
- Feb 19, 2020
- 8 min
Introducing Jamii ni Afya: Zanzibar’s national digital health program for Universal Coverage
This month, the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health (MOH), together with the local government authority, launched...
Taylor Craig
- Dec 10, 2019
- 6 min
Afya-Tek: a people-centered digitized healthcare system to strengthen the continuum of care
In a sparsely furnished room on a side street in the Kibaha district outside of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ally Maandiko shuffles through...
Rebecca Litner
- Dec 2, 2019
- 7 min
Tuberculosis management among migrants using Near Field Communication technology
A year ago, I visited western Thailand with American Refugee Committee at Alight , a nonprofit organization working to improve lives of...
Salum Mbaruok
- Feb 20, 2019
- 5 min
Support, counselling, and follow-up: Leveraging digital tools to encourage new health behaviors
I was born and raised in Pemba, the second largest island in the Zanzibar archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. Growing up in Pemba, I...
Rachel Hofmann
- Dec 20, 2018
- 4 min
Community Health Toolkit Selected to Support Zanzibar’s National Community Health Volunteer Program
As announced in June 2018, D-tree International is thrilled to have received support from the Fondation Botnar and Human Development...
Makee Cross
- Dec 17, 2018
- 5 min
Working with Zanzibar's Government to Develop a Digitally-Enabled Emergency Referral System
The provision and use of emergency transport for emergency referrals is inhibited in many low- and middle-income countries by a range of...
