DHIS2
MLC Vanguard | Created by HISP Centre, University of Oslo
DHIS2 is a free and open-source software platform helping low-income countries digitize their health, education, and other public sector programs for more effective management and data-driven decision making. It helps governments make the most of limited resources, empowers local workers, and supports better and more equitable outcomes for vulnerable populations.
1,000,000,000 Lives Impacted
The use of DHIS2 generates numerous impacts at different levels of the health system. For the target population, it supports better health outcomes, by helping health workers follow up with individual patients, such as testing, monitoring and providing treatment for infectious diseases; conducting routine testing, vaccination, and follow-up during and after pregnancy, guiding allocation of medications and preventative measures (bednets, etc) to populations most at risk, etc. Administratively, it helps ministries of health in low-income countries work more efficiently and effectively, by providing immediate access to data and improving data quality, making it easier to make planning and budgetary decisions for health programs, to identify population trends, and plan and carry out large-scale interventions such as immunization campaigns and malaria control programs.
DHIS2 is used on a national-scale for public health system management in more than 70 low- and middle-income countries (including all but 5 countries in Africa). The total population of all countries where DHIS2 is used to manage health programs is estimated to be more than 3.2 billion people.
The Innovation
DHIS2 supports effective, decentralized health system management in low- and middle-income countries. DHIS2 is used by national ministries of health in more than 80 LMICs to plan and carry out lifesaving health programs, such as immunization, ante- and postnatal care, and screening and treatment for infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, ebola, Covid, etc. DHIS2 is specifically designed to function in remote/low-resource environments, helping it serve populations in the poorest areas of the world. Some LMICs also use DHIS2 for program management in education, agriculture, and other sectors.
The most innovative aspect of DHIS2 is its customizability, which enables ministries of health and other organizations to take ownership of the platform and adapt it to meet their local needs. All key aspects of the system can be customized directly through the user interface, without the need for programming skills. We also foster the sharing of innovations between countries through our online community, HISP network, and App Hub, reducing the need for countries to “reinvent the wheel.”
Implemented in
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ecuador, Eswatini, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda
Get in touch
Max Krafft, DHIS2 Training & Communication Lead
max@dhis2.org
About HISP Centre, University of Oslo
The HISP Centre supports countries and regions to strengthen their information systems and information architecture in a sustainable way to achieve the SDGs in the health sector and beyond. We pursue this goal through DHIS2 platform development, capacity building, action research, local ownership, and innovation sharing through the global community.
