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Gallery The Nurses and Doctors behind NoviGuide

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People are doing things with confidence and calculating dosages accurately because the NoviGuide does it for us… And at the end of it you get a very beautiful summary of your case. Where sometimes nurses were defeated in making a clear report about a patient, you find in our files these days people can summarize their data very well.

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Nurse, Koboko General Hospital

Nurse Euphrasie Cinkunda uses NoviGuide to assess a baby at Centre Hospitalier Muungano, DRC

Nurse Judith Miaka,
HEAL Africa, DRC

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When you show parents the video on discharge, they really appreciate it. Once they start watching the videos, they see how the baby attaches to the breast. The dangers of fever, septic cord and eye infection — they open their own eyes and they are like, ‘Wow.’ And then, they are very much sensitized that when we see these danger signs, we are supposed to come back. So, that has been very helpful to the community.

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Nurse, Tororo General Hospital

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NoviGuide has helped me with warning signs. For example, with a preterm baby, once you input the temperature, it will warn you whether the baby needs extra warmth. When the glucose levels are low, it will warn you. I didn’t know the normal ranges but NoviGuide guides you. And when the newborn needs fluids, it will tell you.

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Nurse, Mukujju Health Center

Nurse Justin Sivyolo, HEAL Africa, DRC

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Dr. Nakakeeto Margaret and Dr. Mutaka Joel, Kidera HCIV, Uganda

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“We were anxious that NoviGuide was going to add more work to us but when we received it, we realized that the opposite was true: work became easier.”

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Nurse, Koboko General Hospital

Nurses assesses newborn undergoing phototherapy in Maracha, Uganda

Mothers watch educational video on NoviGuide, Rwenzori region, Uganda

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With discharge, mostly we thought about the mother but with the NoviGuide we’ve been able to identify that every baby needs to be discharged. So now we assess these babies to make sure that they fall in the discharge criteria, and with this we have been able to register few readmissions in the unit.

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Nurse, Moyo General Hospital

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We realize especially some of these babies who are brought with a history of crying too much, not breastfeeding, you find that by the time you go and check, their levels of sugar are really too low and it guides you on what to do. It reminds us about our protocol.

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Nurse, Koboko General Hospital

Nurse trains on NoviGuide at HEAL Africa, DRC

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FACT SHEET

MILESTONE

Clinicians in Uganda and the DRC have voluntarily used NoviGuide, our point-of-care tablet application for neonatal medicine, to complete more than 100,000 baby assessments

ASSESSMENT CONTENT

Each assessment helps clinicians perform structured observations of a newborn to detect danger signs, identify their cause, and treat illness according to evidence-based guidelines.

TIMELINE

NoviGuide 1.0 was completed in the mid-2010s, piloted in the Tororo region of Uganda, and studied as part of a UCSF initiative; with version 2.5 in 2023, NoviGuide began to scale up to dozens of clinics; it is now in version 2.6 and its adoption continues to expand to more clinics

GOALS

We want to reach 1,000,000 newborn assessments per year and we want to expand NoviGuide to more areas of medicine, starting with obstetrics and women’s health

WHO WE ARE

Global Strategies is a California-based nonprofit organization that empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare. The inspiration for NoviGuide came from the organization's programs and partners in the eastern Congo

FOUNDED

Founded 1999 by Dr. Arthur Ammann, merged in 2014 with International Pediatric Outreach Project founded by Dr. Theodore Ruel and Dr. Sadath Sayeed

PRESIDENT

Dr. Joshua Bress, MD

HEADQUARTERS

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MEDIA CONTACT

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