Akros entries selected in photo competitions
Over the past few months, two photos by Akros Communications Lead Andy Prinsen have been selected as winner and honorable mention in their respective…
Blog Archive
The Elimination 8 Regional Surveillance Database (ERSD)
To achieve malaria elimination, an understanding of neighboring country malaria situations is critical for the prevention of introduction of parasites. Malaria parasites don’t stop…
Mobile Platform Enables Unprecedented Sanitation Uptake in Zambia
CLTS has been shown to be an effective method to combat malnutrition and stunting in children under five. In this study, a mobile-to-web platform…
Gavi Pacesetter organizations
GAVI is an international organization – a global Vaccine Alliance – bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal…
Chipo’s Story
Akros is proud to be working with Sightsavers, an organization working in more than 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with…
Piloting Zambia’s first mobile-to-web education monitoring system
About two years ago, Zambia’s Ministry of General Education (MoGE) approached us with an idea: let’s build a more routine, faster method for capturing…
Building one of the world’s largest data surveillance platforms
Leveraging a massive network of community volunteers, Akros works with the Zambian government and UNICEF to manage one of the world’s largest data surveillance…
Akros-led consortium to develop Elimination 8 regional malaria database
We are excited to announce that an Akros-led consortium has been selected to develop a regional malaria surveillance platform for a coordinated, eight-country effort…
Fighting trachoma in Zambia
There isn’t much to the town of Namwala itself – an assortment of mobile phone “talk time” sellers and wholesale farmer feed stores. But…
Akros partners with College of William and Mary’s AidData, selected as one of DREAMS Challenge winners
On July 18, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief (PEPFAR), announced the provisional winners of its $85 million DREAMS innovation challenge to reduce HIV/AIDS…