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[Seid Hussein <seid.hisp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Here in Ethiopia we have Community Health Information Systems focusing on
"family folders" whereby health services provided to members of families
are registered and kept collectively in "folders". Despite being paper
based, this system seems to be working well especially in the rural setting.

While the families in rural areas are set and do not move much which makes
tracking them easier, it looks to be much more difficult in an Urban and
Pastoralist settings where members of the community move either by changing
rental houses or looking for new pasture lands which makes tracking the
people to deliver health services difficult.

Since Ethiopia doesn't yet have a social security system or national
identification, identifying each person has become much more difficult.

Hence it has been suggested by various people at the ministry to employ
bio-metric identification to track these people.

However, DHIS2 currently doesn't seem to support bio-metric data. Is there
any plan to do so in the future? I understand that there are privacy and
security issues to consider but incorporating this feature will make it
more complete.

Regards,


Seid,