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What does AVADAR add?
Read content compiled by the STRIPE collaboration about the vaccination surveillance tool AVADAR (Step 2.9)
What is AVADAR? How does AVADAR work?
To find answers to these questions, read AVADAR (Auto-Visual AFP Detection and Reporting): demonstration of a novel SMS-based smartphone application to improve acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance in Nigeria
The article outlines the importance of a sensitive AFP surveillance system, which is able to promptly identify and report all suspected AFP cases. Therefore:
- What does AVADAR add to AFP surveillance conducted by healthcare workers?
- In what contexts might AVADAR be particularly helpful?
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