Happy New Year

As we welcome a new year, we are delighted to share this edition of the Dure Technologies Newsletter with you. This moment offers an opportunity to reflect on the progress we have achieved together through meaningful partnerships, impactful events, and dedicated efforts. The past year has been marked by strong collaborations, impactful training initiatives, and steady progress toward building smarter, data-driven solutions for health and development. In this edition, we highlight key activities, share insights from the field, and reflect on notable achievements made alongside our partners and stakeholders.
As always, our focus remains on leveraging technology and innovation to strengthen systems, empower communities, and drive sustainable, positive change toward a brighter and more equitable future for all.

Events

HIV/AIDS Data Ecosystem Rolls Out: Strengthening Command Centers, Driving Interoperability, and Enhancing Data-Driven Decision Making Across States.

Following the successful design of the HIV/AIDS Data Ecosystem, Dure technologies took the initiative to commence rollout training across six (6) selected states in Nigeria in collaboration with the National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) and deployed interactive dashboards at the state level. The initiative aims to strengthen the NACA Command Center by integrating data from health and non-health sectors, surveys, creating room for predictive analytics, and other sources into a unified repository. Key objectives include developing a Health Information Exchange platform, eliminating data duplication, establishing a Data Quality Review (DQR) framework, Signing of MOUs and the official handover of the interactive panel to the Head of the State Agency for the Control of AIDS.
With robust IT infrastructure, user-friendly configuration, and capacity-building through functional and technical training, the system promotes seamless data exchange, real-time access, and data visualization. This milestone enhances national and sub-national decision-making, fosters data democratization with controlled access, and ensures optimized reporting systems for improved HIV/AIDS response.

One Data Connect, A Multi- Disease Data Ecosystem: Stakeholder Training and Engagement.
Where Data Works Together

Dure technologies joining forces with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) recently convened a training to introduce stakeholders at the sub-national level to the rationale behind developing the Multi-Disease Dashboard and to present the project overview for feedback. The training aimed to build shared understanding and ownership of this innovative platform.
Currently, several challenges hinder effective data use: siloed systems across HIV, TB, Malaria, PMTCT, OVC, research, and non-health sectors; persistent data quality issues such as duplication of client records due to lack of a standardized unique identifier; and multiple unintegrated data systems that increase costs and complicate reporting. Additionally, limited case-based monitoring prevents seamless tracking of clients across the continuum of care from registration to treatment adherence particularly for key populations.
The Multi-Disease Data Ecosystem seeks to address these gaps by creating a centralized situation room that integrates data across HIV, TB, Malaria, Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, Immunization, NCDs, Neglected Tropical Diseases, and national surveys. This centralized platform will enable real-time insights, eliminate duplication, and provide a comprehensive view of Nigeria’s public health landscape ultimately strengthening evidence-based decision-making at both national and sub-national levels.

Snapshots from State-Level
Trainings on the Multi-Disease
Dashboard

Building Skills for Impact: Community DR-TB and BPaL/M Training.

We were thrilled to participate in the training on Community DR-TB and BpaL/M organized by TB Network, an incredibly enriching experience that provided profound insights and case studies on Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB). The Training of Trainers (ToT) on Community DR-TB and BPaL/M was both insightful and inspiring, with strong emphasis on identifying and supporting DR-TB risk groups. The training aimed to strengthen the capacity of healthcare workers and program implementers in managing Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) while integrating gender, human rights, and patient-centered care principles. Key objectives included enhancing participants’ knowledge and skills in the diagnosis, treatment, care, and support of DR-TB patients using the BPaL/M regimen, in line with national and WHO recommendations. The sessions also focused on promoting adherence counseling, addressing stigma, and providing standardized, context-specific tools to ensure quality and consistent training delivery across all levels.
A major takeaway from the training was the reaffirmation that bacteriological diagnosis remains the gold standard for detecting DR-TB. Participants also engaged in valuable discussions on incorporating gender perspectives, PSEAH, stigma reduction, and discrimination prevention paving the way for a more inclusive and responsive TB program.

Implementation of the CSS Assessment at State Level

The assessment aimed to evaluate the existing infrastructure, community systems, and institutional capacities required for the successful implementation of the Community System Strengthening (CSS) project. This included reviewing the availability and functionality of digital tools, data collection processes, coordination mechanisms, and human resource capacities at both community and health facility levels. The exercise also examined the readiness of community structures to support Community-Led Monitoring (CLM), identify gaps and challenges, and inform targeted interventions that will strengthen systems, enhance data quality, and ensure effective, sustainable CSS implementation across states.

CSS Stakeholders Orientation Meeting

The CSS Stakeholder Orientation Meeting was convened to review and deliberate on the presentation of Community System Strengthening (CSS) assessment findings across states, as well as the design and functionality of the integrated CSS platform. The meeting brought together key stakeholders to examine system readiness, data flows, governance structures, and operational requirements for effective CSS and Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) integration. Participants emphasized that data quality remains a critical concern, particularly for client-entered data, highlighting the need for well-trained personnel to collect, validate, and verify data feeding into the CSS dashboard from the respective applications across the TB, Malaria, and HIV disease programs.

Handover Ceremony of FMOHSW Multi-Disease Situation Room & Data Ecosystem

The Directorate of Public Health of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), in partnership with Dure Technologies, formally convened to hand over the Multi-Disease Situation Room and Data Ecosystem. The initiative is designed to strengthen unified, real-time, and actionable disease surveillance across Nigeria, supporting evidence-based public health decision-making at national and sub-national levels. Developed by Dure Technologies with support from NACA through the Global Fund, the ecosystem consolidates data on HIV, TB, Malaria, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), NTD’s etc. into a single integrated platform. By providing comprehensive visibility across multiple disease areas, the system enhances situational awareness, early warning, and coordinated response.
The handover meeting demonstrated core system capabilities, including interactive descriptive dashboards, predictive analytics, survey data ingestion, and AI-powered indicator search.

Dure Technologies Nigeria – 2025 Year-End Retreat

The Year-End DURE Nigeria Retreat provided a strategic platform to review organizational performance in 2025, assess progress across ongoing and completed projects, align leadership, staff etc around shared priorities. The retreat reaffirmed DURE Technologies’ vision and mission in Nigeria, clarified its unique positioning within the data and digital health ecosystem, and identified opportunities to strengthen impact through scalable, innovative solutions. Key outcomes included agreement on strategies for expanding operations at state and national levels, strengthening internal alignment, and defining clear, actionable priorities to guide implementation and accountability in 2026.

Taking CSS to the Field: Testing, Learning, and Validation

The Community System Strengthening (CSS) Field Testing was conducted to demonstrate and validate the functionality, navigation, and data visualisation features of the CSS dashboard across three selected states and within the three priority disease programmes such as HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria. The field testing exercise provided a practical, hands-on opportunity for stakeholders to interact with the dashboard, assess its usability, and understand how data captured from community-level interventions can be translated into meaningful insights for planning, coordination, and decision-making.
Through real-time demonstrations and guided walkthroughs, the exercise showcased the dashboard’s capacity to integrate multi-disease data, present information in clear and user-friendly formats, and support evidence-based monitoring of community systems and service delivery. The field testing also enabled implementers and partners to validate the relevance of the indicators, identify gaps, and provide feedback to inform further refinement of the platform. Overall, the CSS Field Testing reinforced the dashboard’s potential as a unified tool for strengthening community systems, enhancing accountability, and improving programmatic outcomes across HIV, TB, and Malaria interventions.

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