Ademola Oladipo, Ibrahim Dalhatu, Stephen Taiye Balogun, Moyosola Bamidele, Ayodele Fagbemi, Isah Ahmed Abbas, Nannim Nalda, Richard Ugbena, Jude Orjih, Timothy A Efuntoye, Brooke Doman, Sadhna Patel, Herman Tolentino, Daniel Rosen, James Kariuki, Johnson Alonge, Kehinde Balogun, Nnamdi Umeh, Gibril Gomez, Oludare Onimode, Olaposi Olatoregun, Jay Osi Samuels, Adebobola Bashorun
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Background: Nigeria has made significant investments in client-level electronic health systems, including the Nigeria Medical Record System (NMRS) and the National Data Repository (NDR), with funding from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC). A biometric system was used across the US CDC-supported program in Nigeria to consistently track and monitor service uptake by people living with HIV during this period. The system was used to conduct deduplication analysis with the goal of preventing double counting and improving data integrity across all the US CDC-supported treatment sites (health facilities and community sites).
Objective: We describe the fingerprint biometric system in Nigeria and the process used for deduplicating health records of people living with HIV, including preliminary results.
Methods: The fingerprint biometric system leveraged the availability of the electronic NMRS at health facilities and the NDR. The integration of the fingerprint biometric module into the NMRS enabled fingerprints capture using SecuGen devices. Stakeholder engagement and capacity building were conducted with people living with HIV and health facility staff for fingerprint capture, storage, and transmission of the fingerprint templates to the NDR. Deduplication of the fingerprint templates was conducted in the automated biometric information system that is integrated with the NDR.
Results: We implemented fingerprint capture for 1,538,971 people living with HIV to deduplicate records from 1,141 treatment sites to improve the reliability and uniqueness of the system of records. Preliminary data showed that of the 1,538,971 records assessed by 30th June 2024, 1,520,187 of the active records (98.78%) had valid fingerprints, and 1,264,299 (83.17%) of the records with valid fingerprints were unique.
Conclusions: The implementation of a biometric system using fingerprint data allowed the identification of potentially duplicate records for resolution, thereby improving the quality of HIV treatment data for HIV program planning.
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