Program Success Story

ScanForm in Malawi

2020-2024 & Onwards

In collaboration with the Malawi Ministry of Health, Directorate of HIV, STI and Viral Hepatitis (DHA), three scannable routine registers have been scaled nationally scaled to capture HTS, HIV Self Test, Syphilis and Hepatitis B individual client encounters  

11.6+ MILLION

records digitized in 2 years 

99.97%

correct adherence to 3-test algorithm to diagnose HIV

98%

of providers recommended that ScanForm be adopted by the DHA for HTS data collection

Saves Money

✔ 35x cheaper than EMR per health observation

✔ Sustainable at $0.25 / record fully-loaded in MW

✔ Cuts M&E costs for MoH and IPs by at least 50%

How Does ScanForm Strengthen Malawi’s HIS?

Saves Time

✔ Over 25% for HCW

✔ Over 100,000 auto-generated site-level summaries and DQAs

✔ Automatic upload to DHIS2

Timely, complete, and accurate individual data at national scale for decision making

Easily expanded to PrEP, STI, OPD, Lab Request Forms

Supports the achievement of eHealth goals and HSSP III Objective 6 

Secure & Fully Owned by MOH

✔ Compliance with MW 2024 Data Protection Act and EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Expansion

2024-onward

Project Timeline & Highlights

  • Launched PrEP + achievement metrics.  

  • Ongoing update of national STI guidelines which will include the launch of a scannable STI register (with support from WHO).

  • Ongoing development of scannable lab sample form.

Scale Up

2022-2024

  • Implementation focused on highest testing burden sites in Lilongwe first, resulting in 56% of national coverage achieved in 3 months

    • Over 861 sites and +2,238 facility and community service delivery points

  • 99.97% correct adherence to 3-test algorithm to diagnose HIV

    • 735 clients saved from HIV misdiagnosis

Evaluation

2021

  • Very high user acceptance, 95% (40/42) rated ScanForm as good or very good.

  • In focus group discussions, 95% of providers reported that ScanForm saves time and 100% of providers reported that data collection is faster with ScanForm.

  • 98% of providers recommended that ScanForm be adopted by the DHA for HTS data collection.