Grand Challenges Explorations Grant Enables Further Reveal Development
We are thrilled to announce Akros has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant, an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation! Grand…
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Anticipating Continued COVID-19 Needs: Lessons from Yesterday
At the time of writing, 33.7 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide. Regardless of socioeconomic standing, health systems around the world have…
Reveal and GRID3 Bring Geospatial Data to the Ground for Malaria Prevention
Zambia, along with a handful of countries within Southern and Eastern Africa, is on track to reduce malaria cases 40% by 2020. Relative to…
Reveal—spatial intelligence for planning, targeting, and real-time management of interventions in low-resource settings – A Case Study
The Denominator Challenge Accurate quantification of a population, and the ability to locate this population with precision, are fundamental requirements for reporting the true…
When good leadership meets smart technology for malaria prevention
On a sweltering summer day in Siavonga, a lakeside jewel of Zambia’s Southern Province, I sat down with Mr. Bisael Phiri, the District Surveillance…
Reveal takes aim at malaria parasite through mass drug administration campaigns in Southern Province, Zambia
Deep in Zambia’s Southern Province, in a town a three-hour drive away from the district’s largest city and economic hub (Siavonga), lies Manchamvwa Health…
Operationalizing spatial intelligence means saving lives
As a spatial epidemiology PhD student, I was drawn to questions about how the environment relates to and facilitates vector-borne disease (diseases that are…
The Inside of Context is King
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Akros is a bit different than most development NGOs. Instead of a large corporate office in a distant setting, Akros bases its team in…
It’s all about the maps
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out big goals and targets—and countries are making real progress in some cases. Under five mortality has reduced…
Five steps to wrap technology and optimize impact: community malaria surveillance for elimination in Zambia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Image caption: Community health workers (CHWs) provide malaria testing and treatment; line-lists in paper registers and aggregated by “data” CHWs and submitted to the…