This document analyzes the malaria indicators reporting system and data use for malaria management in Ayawaso District, Ghana. It finds that while reporting completeness and timeliness have improved over five years, private facilities do not consistently report data. It recommends that the National Malaria Control Program establish guidelines requiring private facilities and quasi-government institutions to report, and that the Ayawaso Health Directorate extend its database to facilities and provide IT equipment to improve reporting.

1. Tracking of Malaria indicators reporting
system and Data use on Malaria
management in Ayawaso District
Dr. Yves Lucien Hakorimana
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2. BACKGROUND
• Global estimates of 214 million cases of malaria, 88% of
which occur in the WHO African Region (WHO, 2015)
• Ghana 11.3 million cases of out patients malaria in 2013
(NMCP, 2013)
• Ghana had to achieved the malaria targets of 85% by the
end of 2014, for populations at risk (children & pregnant
women)
• The incompleteness of malaria indicator reports was the
results of challenges of case management (J. Cox, 2013)
• Inadequate documentation on the influence that indicator
reports have on health systems structures for malaria
control practices
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3. OBJECTIVES
Analyse and track
malaria indicators
reporting system and
data-use on malaria
management in Ayawaso
district
Describe the system for malaria
data collection and management at
district level
Assess the data-use on malaria
management at the various levels
of the health care system in
Ayawaso district
Specific objectivesGeneral objective
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Analyse reporting system from the
health facility to the district level in
Ayawaso district

4. METHODS
Qualitative Methods:
(Primary data)
 Key informants interviews:
Health district Director; DDNS;
Malaria focal point; DCO; PHO;
& HIO
 Interview guide & note taking
Quantitative Methods:
(Secondary data): Facilities
Reports from Jan. 2012-May 2016
6 out of 51 indicators
Exploratory
Mixed Methods
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5. RESULTS
• Malaria data collection, management, report and use
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37 Military Hospital
Legon Hospital
Maamobi General Hospital
Nima Government Clinic
Mallam Atta clinic
10 private hospitals;
60 private clinics
Ayawaso District
Health Directorate
Public Facilities
Quasi- Government
Institutions
Private Facilities

6. RESULTS
• Reporting records and data trends: Reporting timeliness rate
from January 2012 to May 2016

7. RESULTS
• Reporting records and data trends: Reporting completeness
rate from January 2012 to May 2016

8. CONCLUSION
• The malaria indicators data are particularly useful to
various stakeholders
• There is a lack of appropriate tool for reports accuracy
measurement
• The coverage, completeness and timeliness of malaria
indicator reports improved over 5 years covered by
the study
• The private facilities do not collaborate to track and
provide data about malaria indicators
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9. RECOMMENDATIONS
• To NMCP:
Policy guidelines to the private facilities and Quasi-
government institutions regarding the reporting system
There is a need for private and public coordination
partnership
• To Ayawaso Health Directorate
There is a need for DHIMS database extension at Health
facility level
The district should provide power-saving IT equipment
• To Private Health Facilities
Ensure traceability of malaria indicator records and other
diseases
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10. Thank you
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