The malaria vaccine’s global debut and the road that lies ahead
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) sent joyous shock waves through the global health community and the Global South by officially recommending that…
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Spatial intelligence platform Reveal empowers Angola NMCP, MENTOR Initiative, and E8 to achieve impressive IRS coverage in Cuando Cubango Province, Angola
In recent years, countries within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region of Africa have been making outstanding strides toward the challenging goal of…
“No One is Safe, Unless Everyone is Safe”—Reaching Zero-Dose Children with Reveal
Maximal coverage defines the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns. Over one year after the start of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the globe are…
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…
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…