Improving GHS in transitional communitie

Immigrant countries need vaccination certification which reassures them that people crossing their borders do not pose a public health hazard in their countries. Unfortunately! The vaccination cards issued by the public health administration are not reliable and have no authentication; anyone can make it.

Then we developed SAFELY that is a standard public health big data authenticating migrants/travelers’ immunization by connecting immunization stakeholders and border control officers to establish a vaccine reliability bridge between immigrant and transitional/receiving communities in order to prevent disease outbreaks and public health threats. Safely is using Data and AI technologies to find, rapidly stop, and prevent disease outbreaks and other public health threats.

Immigrant countries need vaccination certification which reassures them that people crossing their borders do not pose a public health hazard in their countries. Unfortunately! Vaccination cards issued by the public health administration in developing countries are not reliable and have no authentication; anyone can make it. The use of false vaccination cards exposes transitional/receiving communities to disease outbreaks and public health threats.

SAFELY is a standard public health big data authenticating migrants/travelers’ immunization by connecting immunization stakeholders and border control officers to establish a vaccine reliability bridge between immigrant and transitional/receiving communities in order to prevent disease outbreaks and public health threats.

Safely is using Data and AI technologies to find, rapidly stop, and prevent disease outbreaks and other public health threats.

The main features are:

1.            PUBLIC HEALTH DATA COLLECTION: enabling the public health worker to safely collect and store immunization data and deliver a stamp that can be stamped either behind the ID card, or inside the International passport to facilitate the migrant officer’ control.

2.            HEALTH CONTROL:

Registered migration branch officers have access to all public health data related to immunization.

The control can be made either online or offline thanks to the stamp reader that will be affixed on the passport or any other identity document in offline communities. The officer at the border crossing enters either the serial number (stamp) or the name of the beneficiary or is displayed with the reader of the serial numbers, then his profile is displayed and checks the vaccines to which the traveler / immigrant has benefited.

Although health security must be comprehensive to ensure the absence of epidemics worldwide;

We first target the populations of the DRC and those of neighboring countries in the DRC because they are the most exposed to the contamination of this kind of epidemic because of the mobility of the population of the DRC who immigrates the neighboring countries either by fleeing insecurity or in search of goods.

Gradually, our solution will be deployed in other African countries which have a weak health system and thus represent a danger for the populations of the world.

There is a myth about vaccination that makes people wary of vaccination in developing countries. Because of this myth, the fraudsters have implemented strategies to obtain yellow cards to avoid vaccination. This increases the risk of spread of epidemics.

Safely will thus be able to limit this risk by identifying the healthcare provider empowered to issue yellow cards.

No other digital solution has yet been developed to authenticate vaccination to ensure global health security.

The vaccination cards (Yellow cards) issued by the public health administration are not reliable and have no authentication; anyone can make it.

More seriously, the forms issued to certify vaccination against the Ebola virus are simple papers that are not reliable and anyone can make it.

Thus, the use of false certificates or vaccination cards that expose the populations of the immigrant country / city has a serious public health danger as viral hemorrhagic fevers virus.

None of these means of attestation of vaccination against this or that other epidemic gives the migration control agents the means of control to authenticate the said certificates.

Safely value proposition:

- Fight against fraud,

- Reduces the cost of printing vaccination cards, - SMART: facilitates the migratory / travelers not to be encumbered with a lot of papers (notebook) and protects the environment by the reduction of use of the papers.

Safely is using Data and AI technologies.

By using Data and AI technologies to connect diseases’ immunization stakeholders and border control officers to establish a vaccine reliability bridge between immigrant and transitional/receiving communities; Safely will develop and maintain capacity to find, rapidly stop, and prevent disease outbreaks and other public health threats.

Safely will thus be able to limit this risk of fraudsters by identifying the healthcare provider empowered to issue the serial number (stamp) in stand of yellow cards.

Our theory of change is based on:

• Health threats have no borders: The SAFELY strengthen receiving communities’ abilities to control diseases that cross borders at ports, airports, and ground crossings.

• Travel and trade made safer: The SAFELY promote trade and tourism in countries and prevent economic damage caused by disease outbreaks.

• Global health security is enhanced: The SAFELY establishes an offline control system not only for diseases but for anything biological and other threats to human health and livelihoods.

Currently we do not have any served number of people because we are at the prototype stage (building our technology).

1. In the first year of the project launch, we intend to serve 5 million.
2. In the next 5 years we will duplicate our solution in other African countries with the goal of reaching 25 million.

By December 2020, launch and execute the pilot project with the mission to reach 3 countries using our platform.

Expand facility enough to process and store produce.

Increase market share by replicating our technology in at least 10 African countries the next 36 months. Increase market share by replicating our technology in at least 25 African countries the next 5 years.

The main risks are:

1) financing.

 2) securing strategic partnerships to offset development and acceptance test costs.

The former can be de-risked significantly through the latter. For the latter, construction or lease of dedicated facilities for one-off or short-term use such as: irradiation facilities; high-power electric propulsion vacuum chamber facilities;

We are seeking to work with both public and private partners to gain affordable access to such facilities.

1. Full-time staff: 5
2. Part-time staff: 3
3. Other workers separately: 1

Women and Children First develops community-based innovations for the global health problems facing women, children and global people in developing countries. 

Our team has implemented Xantonn (www.xantonn.com), an electronic patient recording software that is currently getting a lot of traction in the health sector in Nairobi Kenya. In Goma DRC we have also implemented SOS-PlanFam (www.3grdc.com) which is a digital healthcare. 

 The successful implementation of the above software in the health sector has given us enough experience to implement large scale projects and the diversity of our team allows us to work easily in various countries.

. We believe PERCY has the potential to be our next flagship innovation.

Our team prioritizes provision of technology-based solutions that improve system development, tackle problems and improve efficiency. The team’s diversity and experience working in public health field in DRC through the international organizations (UNICEF and Hope in Action) makes the team a perfect fit for purpose. We will work with these entities to facilitate engagements, requirement gathering and implementation of the project. We have Immunization Specialist Andrew KASOGO who implements simple sustainable strategies using various quality improvement approaches to address public health problems, Ngongo Guylain epidemiologist and Medical Director at Kyeshero Hospital. The Health Informatics team leaded by Bubala Clovis will lead the requirement gathering session and the enhancements.

We are planning to collaborate with:

• -International Organization for Migration,
• -Public Health Ministries,
• -And local communities.

We would like to partner with them to bring their expertise to ensure the innovation is as effective and scalable as possible. They will advise on the feasibility, acceptability and accessibility of the innovation. They will also help to ensure evidence is used to inform policy and practice.

Our goal is to build a business model with multiple revenue streams:

Our business model is B2B.

Our key customers are Governments, NGOs and scientific research entities to whom we are going to provide data through our application.

And international travelers how must get the serial number (stamp) in stand of yellow cards.

 And currently it is difficult to start charging directly for this. We must first create the need, as soon as users have experienced the benefits of our solution after a certain period, they will be required to pay access subscriptions according to control agents to manage.

Government and NGOs to whom we are going to provide data through our by contributing with a small amount of money. And to get the serial number (stamp) international travelers must contribute with a small amount of money.

Through Solve’s global network, we want to learn from and meet with potential partners. We are applying to Solve because:

1. Solve can help us build sustainable partnership with potential partners,
2. Better develop pilot studies and clinical trials to collect and analyze appropriate data,
3. Define go-to-market strategy: first to private facilities, then to public facilities through the government and,
4. Define how to monetize data and services.

Be connected to investors in order to take the business to the series A,

To partner with the International Organization for Migration to distribute the product to other African countries.

We would like to partner with governments, International Organization for Migration, UNICEF, Public Health Ministry and Clinics. To bring their expertise to ensure the innovation is as effective and scalable as possible. They will advise on the feasibility, acceptability and accessibility of the innovation. They will also help to ensure evidence is used to inform policy and practice.

Safely will be providing for scientific and AI data to improve decision making for the Global Health Security.

Based ond our theory of change as detailed bellow, our solution will improve the Global Health Security and pandemics as wanted by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Health threats have no borders: The SAFELY strengthen receiving communities’ abilities to control diseases that cross borders at ports, airports, and ground crossings.

• Travel and trade made safer: The SAFELY promote trade and tourism in countries and prevent economic damage caused by disease outbreaks. • Global health security is enhanced: The SAFELY establishes an offline control system not only for diseases but for anything biological and other threats to human health and livelihoods.