The e-TB Manager was used for drug resistant TB case management from 2010. The number of active DR-TB cases being managed in the system increased from 23 in 2010 to 1,037 in 2016.
Following the launch of the harmonized version of the e-TB Manager in December 2015 by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the subsequent phased roll-out of the platform across the 37 states in Nigeria, the number of presumptives TB patients entered into the e-TB Manager platform increased from 21,104 in 2016 to 123,137 in July 2017; the number of TB and DR-TB cases notified increased from 7,671 to 31,638 and 1,084 to 1017 from 2016 to July 2017 respectively.
Other achievements:
Training of and provision of tablets and desktops for 784 health care workers across 30 states in Nigeria
Creation of a virtual dashboard that showcases NTBLCP’s TB reportable indicators
Integration of the dashboard to the NTBLCP’s website to help increase visibility of tracked national level indicators
Source of data for WHO annual DR-TB indicators for Nigeria
Local hosting of e-TB Manager server in-country for country ownership and sustainability
Adoption of the e-TB Manager as the sole electronic reporting tool for patients-level TB management by the NTP in Nigeria
