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Public Health

The Public Health module is built for clinical programme management, the structured, longitudinal care that defines HIV, TB, and maternal health services. It tracks patients across many visits over months and years, manages care cascades, and produces the programme indicators that health authorities and oversight bodies require.

HIV services​

HIV Testing Services (HTS): Pre-test counselling, the test session itself, result recording, and post-test counselling are all captured in the HTS form. Reactive results trigger an enrolment pathway automatically.

Index Contact Tracing: When a client tests positive, the counsellor can record their known contacts (partners, children) and track whether each contact has been reached, tested, and their result. This is linked to the index client's record without duplicating data.

ART Enrolment and Care: From WHO staging and CD4 count at enrolment through treatment initiation, routine visits, viral load monitoring, and adherence counselling. Every visit is recorded against the patient's ART care card.

Enhanced Adherence Counselling (EAC): For patients with unsuppressed viral loads or identified adherence challenges, the EAC module tracks the structured counselling sessions required before a regimen change.

ART Discontinuation: Transfer out, loss to follow-up, and death are recorded with dates and reasons. This feeds directly into programme retention indicators.

Prevention​

PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis): Eligibility screening, initiation, follow-up visits, and discontinuation. The system tracks active PrEP clients and flags those due for follow-up.

PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis): Initiation date and completion tracking for post-exposure cases.

PMTCT: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission, integrated with the MCH module.

Tuberculosis​

TB screening captures whether a patient has presumptive TB, the basis for suspicion, and the outcome of investigation. For confirmed TB patients, treatment initiation and monthly follow-up are tracked through to treatment outcome.

Viral Hepatitis​

Hepatitis B and C enrolment, baseline investigations, follow-up visits, and treatment outcomes are managed in the hepatitis module. The care cascade, from screening to treatment to suppression, mirrors the HIV programme structure.

MCH and Family Planning​

Maternal and child health includes antenatal care, delivery records, postnatal care, and child health visits. Family planning records the chosen method, dispensing, and review visits.

Immunization​

Routine childhood immunisation schedules and tetanus top-up records for women of childbearing age, with automatic scheduling reminders.

Programme reporting​

All programme data feeds into the reporting module. HIV, TB, PMTCT, and other programme indicators are calculated from the transactional data, staff do not need to complete separate tally sheets or reporting forms. Aggregate reports can be generated for any period, broken down by site, age group, sex, or other variables as required by programme standards.

Data sensitivity​

The Public Health module records some of the most sensitive health information a person can have. HIV status, sexual history, and contact tracing records are stored with the same access controls that govern all clinical data, visible only to staff at the patient's registered facility who have the appropriate role.