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BACKGROUND
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the
world, with a population of 163 million people (World Bank, 2016). It is
also one of the world’s 30 high TB burden countries with an estimated
incidence of 360,000 cases in 2017 (WHO Global TB Report).
To help address the high burden of disease, the GeneXpert MTB/RIF
was introduced into Bangladesh in 2012 to diagnose TB and MDR-TB.
THE CHALLENGE
In Bangladesh, GeneXpert instruments are operated in challenging
laboratory environments due to temperature, dust, variable laboratory
infrastructure and lack of human resources. At the start of the
GeneXpert program, numerous issues hampered effective use of these
diagnostic machines. With no maintenance capabilities, no monitoring,
no calibration expertise and no way to know which machines were
working at which diagnostic testing facilities, the program ended up
having a high number of non-functional instruments or instruments
that were not effectively being used.“Of 39 GeneXpert machines,
9 machines were not functioning at the beginning,”said Sarder
Tanzir Hossain, Senior Technical Advisor TB Laboratory, Challenge TB
Bangladesh Project, Management Sciences for Health (MSH).
Further challenges included:
	 •	Monthly reports from GeneXpert machines were still being
reported on paper, requiring active data collection.
	 •	 25% of instruments were non-functional at any given time.
	 •	 The module failure rate was 10.4%.
	 •	 The system was plagued by low instrument utilization rates.
	 •	Error rates were collected but the lack of error code data made
it difficult to determine the sources of errors and rectify them.
	 •	As in other countries, test results were not being sent back to
referring clinicians, resulting in low linkage to care for patients
diagnosed with TB and MDR-TB.
	 •	Instrument calibration and maintenance schedules were
difficult to track.
Country Bangladesh
Instruments 39
Diseases TB
Assays GeneXpert MTB/RIF
Funding
Partner
USAID
Implementing
Partners
KNCV, MSH and IRD
Implementing
Project
Challenge TB
Local Heroes Dr. Pronab Kumar Modak,
DPM Training and Lab
Focal Person, NTP, DGHS,
MOH  FW.
Ebne Sayeed Md.
Imtiaz Senior Technical
Advisor, mHealth,
Management Sciences
for Health.
Sarder Tanzir Hossain,
Senior Technical
Advisor - TB Laboratory,
Management Sciences
for Health.
FROM DATA TO IMPACT
Implementation Summary
CASE STUDY: SWAZILAND
FROM DATA TO IMPACT
Implementation summary
Country Swaziland
Laboratories 28
Diseases MTB, MDR TB
Devices 
Assays
GeneXpert, MTB and
MDR TB
Funding
Partner
Global Fund
Local Heroes: Lead:
Themba Dlamini,
Program Manager, NTP
Dr. Welile Sikhondze,
Technical Advisor and
Research Coordinator,
NTP
Sindisiwe Dlamini,
Chief Laboratory
Technologist, SHLS
Team Members:
Doctor Busizwe
Sibandze
Drug Resistance Survey
Laboratory Manager,
NTP
Tumiso Matumba
Information Technology,
National ICT Officer, NTP
Thando Mabuza,
Assistant ICT Officer, NTP
Derrick Khumalo
Principal Technologist 
SHLS/NTP Laboratory
Coordinator
Sylvester Moyo
Laboratory Information
System Manager, CHAI
Tufuma Zanamwe
Laboratory Information
System Manager, ICAP
Pinky Kubheka
Regional Laboratory
Advisor, ICAP
Justice Makuni
Software Developer,
HMIS
THE CHALLENGE:
MODERN DIAGNOSTICS AND TRAINED STAFF HAMPERED BY DISTANCE AND
COMMUNICATION ISSUES
The Swaziland NTP understood that despite having a fleet of new GeneXpert
diagnostic devices and a skilled staff, they would not realize the full potential of
these new devices without a robust device management platform. To maximize
the use of GeneXperts, and eventually other diagnostics, the NTP needed to:
• understand utilization;
• figure out which errors were happening and why;
• implement rapid response to diagnoses;
• deploy targeted training resources efficiently; and,
• manage a fleet of expensive devices over the long term.
A robust device management connectivity platform could help realize the new
technology’s promise. In addition to the immediate issues of improving time to
treatment and system optimization, the Swaziland NTP wanted to take advantage
of platform to:
Manage inventory:
• Optimizing procurement and utilization
• Reducing wastage
Manage devices:
• Remotely, identify and fix device errors rapidly
• Maintain devices and keep warranties up to date, and reduce
costs over time
Collect and analyze data, to:
• understand disease trends and
patterns
• use custom fields to optimize
laboratory processes and
patient care
• ensure data privacy and control
• automate time-consuming
reports
Doctor Busizwe Sibandze installs
GxAlert at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial
Hospital laboratory with supervision
from Tumiso Matumba and
SystemOne’s Max Strong.
BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY
Implementation of GxAlert by
Bangladeshi team
THE SOLUTION
Ebne Sayeed Md. Imtiaz (MSH), Sarder Tanzir Hossain (MSH) and Dr Pronab Kumar Modak from the Bangladesh National
Tuberculosis Program (NTP) performed a landscape assessment and worked with the USAID-funded Challenge TB Program
to select the most appropriate connectivity solution. Challenge TB funded SystemOne to connect its diagnostic connectivity
solution GxAlert to 39 GeneXpert instruments (which were procured by USAID) between November 2016 and February 2018.
GxAlert enabled a solution to address the following gaps:
	 •	 Device management, monitoring and reporting
	 •	 Calibration, maintenance and procurement planning
	 •	 Lab technologist capacity, availability and training
	 •	 Real-time results notification to respective stakeholders
	 •	 Acceleration of time to treatment for patients.
During the 6 months after the initial GxAlert training, the Bangladesh NTP trained a core group of staff who immediately
began working with the data generated from GxAlert to identify rapid ways to improve the GeneXpert device management,
set appropriate alerts and ensure that TB results moved quickly from the testing devices to the right clinicians.
SUCCESSES AND MOVING FORWARD
@SystemOneCo SystemOne.id
CASE STUDY: SWAZILAND
FROM DATA TO IMPACT
Implementation summary
Country Swaziland
Laboratories 28
Diseases MTB, MDR TB
Devices 
Assays
GeneXpert, MTB and
MDR TB
Funding
Partner
Global Fund
Local Heroes: Lead:
Themba Dlamini,
Program Manager, NTP
Dr. Welile Sikhondze,
Technical Advisor and
Research Coordinator,
NTP
Sindisiwe Dlamini,
Chief Laboratory
Technologist, SHLS
Team Members:
Doctor Busizwe
Sibandze
Drug Resistance Survey
Laboratory Manager,
NTP
Tumiso Matumba
Information Technology,
National ICT Officer, NTP
Thando Mabuza,
Assistant ICT Officer, NTP
Derrick Khumalo
Principal Technologist 
SHLS/NTP Laboratory
Coordinator
Sylvester Moyo
Laboratory Information
System Manager, CHAI
Tufuma Zanamwe
Laboratory Information
System Manager, ICAP
Pinky Kubheka
Regional Laboratory
Advisor, ICAP
Justice Makuni
Software Developer,
HMIS
THE CHALLENGE:
MODERN DIAGNOSTICS AND TRAINED STAFF HAMPERED BY DISTANCE AND
COMMUNICATION ISSUES
The Swaziland NTP understood that despite having a fleet of new GeneXpert
diagnostic devices and a skilled staff, they would not realize the full potential of
these new devices without a robust device management platform. To maximize
the use of GeneXperts, and eventually other diagnostics, the NTP needed to:
• understand utilization;
• figure out which errors were happening and why;
• implement rapid response to diagnoses;
• deploy targeted training resources efficiently; and,
• manage a fleet of expensive devices over the long term.
A robust device management connectivity platform could help realize the new
technology’s promise. In addition to the immediate issues of improving time to
treatment and system optimization, the Swaziland NTP wanted to take advantage
of platform to:
Manage inventory:
• Optimizing procurement and utilization
• Reducing wastage
Manage devices:
• Remotely, identify and fix device errors rapidly
• Maintain devices and keep warranties up to date, and reduce
costs over time
Collect and analyze data, to:
• understand disease trends and
patterns
• use custom fields to optimize
laboratory processes and
patient care
• ensure data privacy and control
• automate time-consuming
reports
Doctor Busizwe Sibandze installs
GxAlert at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial
Hospital laboratory with supervision
from Tumiso Matumba and
SystemOne’s Max Strong.
Bangladesh Deep Dive training
As of June 2018, a total of 189,484 GeneXpert test results have been uploaded onto
GxAlert. Due to GxAlert’s real-time monitoring and immediate feedback capabilities,
the data these tests generated led the NTP to take action and yield the following
improvements:
	 •	National error rates have decreased by 46%; from 6.09% in 2015 to 2.81%
in 2017.
	 •	The most common test errors and sources, by testing site and user, have
been identified. The NTP learned that specimen processing errors were
occurring frequently, which prompted retraining efforts for staff.
	 •	Being able to manage cartridge stock, including expiry dates for cartridges
on GxAlert, has resulted in the NTP being proud to report that stock-outs
have been eliminated.
	 •	Cepheid’s local distributor can remotely monitor the module status
(failures) and take preventive actions that have led to a significant drop in
module replacement time, from 5-14 months in 2015 to only 2 weeks in
2017.
	 •	From experiencing numerous machine and module failures, the program
now has 100% machines operational with 90% of modules operational at any
given time.
“The SystemOne Data Deep Dive helped us uncover extremely useful data, which
enabled us to improve our referral system and see which mutations were prevalent
in which regions,”said Sarder Tanzir Hossain.“This alone has helped us ensure we can
distribute the right treatment to the right locations.”
The NTP intends a national expansion from 200 to 615 machines. As with many
countries, NTP staff recognize that eventually the system would benefit from a full-
time position to monitor the network and follow up on actionable items, whether
these are offline machines, broken modules, or ensuring that referring clinicians are
initiating treatment.
BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY

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Gx alert casestudy bangladesh_062618

  • 1. BACKGROUND Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with a population of 163 million people (World Bank, 2016). It is also one of the world’s 30 high TB burden countries with an estimated incidence of 360,000 cases in 2017 (WHO Global TB Report). To help address the high burden of disease, the GeneXpert MTB/RIF was introduced into Bangladesh in 2012 to diagnose TB and MDR-TB. THE CHALLENGE In Bangladesh, GeneXpert instruments are operated in challenging laboratory environments due to temperature, dust, variable laboratory infrastructure and lack of human resources. At the start of the GeneXpert program, numerous issues hampered effective use of these diagnostic machines. With no maintenance capabilities, no monitoring, no calibration expertise and no way to know which machines were working at which diagnostic testing facilities, the program ended up having a high number of non-functional instruments or instruments that were not effectively being used.“Of 39 GeneXpert machines, 9 machines were not functioning at the beginning,”said Sarder Tanzir Hossain, Senior Technical Advisor TB Laboratory, Challenge TB Bangladesh Project, Management Sciences for Health (MSH). Further challenges included: • Monthly reports from GeneXpert machines were still being reported on paper, requiring active data collection. • 25% of instruments were non-functional at any given time. • The module failure rate was 10.4%. • The system was plagued by low instrument utilization rates. • Error rates were collected but the lack of error code data made it difficult to determine the sources of errors and rectify them. • As in other countries, test results were not being sent back to referring clinicians, resulting in low linkage to care for patients diagnosed with TB and MDR-TB. • Instrument calibration and maintenance schedules were difficult to track. Country Bangladesh Instruments 39 Diseases TB Assays GeneXpert MTB/RIF Funding Partner USAID Implementing Partners KNCV, MSH and IRD Implementing Project Challenge TB Local Heroes Dr. Pronab Kumar Modak, DPM Training and Lab Focal Person, NTP, DGHS, MOH FW. Ebne Sayeed Md. Imtiaz Senior Technical Advisor, mHealth, Management Sciences for Health. Sarder Tanzir Hossain, Senior Technical Advisor - TB Laboratory, Management Sciences for Health. FROM DATA TO IMPACT Implementation Summary CASE STUDY: SWAZILAND FROM DATA TO IMPACT Implementation summary Country Swaziland Laboratories 28 Diseases MTB, MDR TB Devices Assays GeneXpert, MTB and MDR TB Funding Partner Global Fund Local Heroes: Lead: Themba Dlamini, Program Manager, NTP Dr. Welile Sikhondze, Technical Advisor and Research Coordinator, NTP Sindisiwe Dlamini, Chief Laboratory Technologist, SHLS Team Members: Doctor Busizwe Sibandze Drug Resistance Survey Laboratory Manager, NTP Tumiso Matumba Information Technology, National ICT Officer, NTP Thando Mabuza, Assistant ICT Officer, NTP Derrick Khumalo Principal Technologist SHLS/NTP Laboratory Coordinator Sylvester Moyo Laboratory Information System Manager, CHAI Tufuma Zanamwe Laboratory Information System Manager, ICAP Pinky Kubheka Regional Laboratory Advisor, ICAP Justice Makuni Software Developer, HMIS THE CHALLENGE: MODERN DIAGNOSTICS AND TRAINED STAFF HAMPERED BY DISTANCE AND COMMUNICATION ISSUES The Swaziland NTP understood that despite having a fleet of new GeneXpert diagnostic devices and a skilled staff, they would not realize the full potential of these new devices without a robust device management platform. To maximize the use of GeneXperts, and eventually other diagnostics, the NTP needed to: • understand utilization; • figure out which errors were happening and why; • implement rapid response to diagnoses; • deploy targeted training resources efficiently; and, • manage a fleet of expensive devices over the long term. A robust device management connectivity platform could help realize the new technology’s promise. In addition to the immediate issues of improving time to treatment and system optimization, the Swaziland NTP wanted to take advantage of platform to: Manage inventory: • Optimizing procurement and utilization • Reducing wastage Manage devices: • Remotely, identify and fix device errors rapidly • Maintain devices and keep warranties up to date, and reduce costs over time Collect and analyze data, to: • understand disease trends and patterns • use custom fields to optimize laboratory processes and patient care • ensure data privacy and control • automate time-consuming reports Doctor Busizwe Sibandze installs GxAlert at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital laboratory with supervision from Tumiso Matumba and SystemOne’s Max Strong. BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY Implementation of GxAlert by Bangladeshi team
  • 2. THE SOLUTION Ebne Sayeed Md. Imtiaz (MSH), Sarder Tanzir Hossain (MSH) and Dr Pronab Kumar Modak from the Bangladesh National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) performed a landscape assessment and worked with the USAID-funded Challenge TB Program to select the most appropriate connectivity solution. Challenge TB funded SystemOne to connect its diagnostic connectivity solution GxAlert to 39 GeneXpert instruments (which were procured by USAID) between November 2016 and February 2018. GxAlert enabled a solution to address the following gaps: • Device management, monitoring and reporting • Calibration, maintenance and procurement planning • Lab technologist capacity, availability and training • Real-time results notification to respective stakeholders • Acceleration of time to treatment for patients. During the 6 months after the initial GxAlert training, the Bangladesh NTP trained a core group of staff who immediately began working with the data generated from GxAlert to identify rapid ways to improve the GeneXpert device management, set appropriate alerts and ensure that TB results moved quickly from the testing devices to the right clinicians. SUCCESSES AND MOVING FORWARD @SystemOneCo SystemOne.id CASE STUDY: SWAZILAND FROM DATA TO IMPACT Implementation summary Country Swaziland Laboratories 28 Diseases MTB, MDR TB Devices Assays GeneXpert, MTB and MDR TB Funding Partner Global Fund Local Heroes: Lead: Themba Dlamini, Program Manager, NTP Dr. Welile Sikhondze, Technical Advisor and Research Coordinator, NTP Sindisiwe Dlamini, Chief Laboratory Technologist, SHLS Team Members: Doctor Busizwe Sibandze Drug Resistance Survey Laboratory Manager, NTP Tumiso Matumba Information Technology, National ICT Officer, NTP Thando Mabuza, Assistant ICT Officer, NTP Derrick Khumalo Principal Technologist SHLS/NTP Laboratory Coordinator Sylvester Moyo Laboratory Information System Manager, CHAI Tufuma Zanamwe Laboratory Information System Manager, ICAP Pinky Kubheka Regional Laboratory Advisor, ICAP Justice Makuni Software Developer, HMIS THE CHALLENGE: MODERN DIAGNOSTICS AND TRAINED STAFF HAMPERED BY DISTANCE AND COMMUNICATION ISSUES The Swaziland NTP understood that despite having a fleet of new GeneXpert diagnostic devices and a skilled staff, they would not realize the full potential of these new devices without a robust device management platform. To maximize the use of GeneXperts, and eventually other diagnostics, the NTP needed to: • understand utilization; • figure out which errors were happening and why; • implement rapid response to diagnoses; • deploy targeted training resources efficiently; and, • manage a fleet of expensive devices over the long term. A robust device management connectivity platform could help realize the new technology’s promise. In addition to the immediate issues of improving time to treatment and system optimization, the Swaziland NTP wanted to take advantage of platform to: Manage inventory: • Optimizing procurement and utilization • Reducing wastage Manage devices: • Remotely, identify and fix device errors rapidly • Maintain devices and keep warranties up to date, and reduce costs over time Collect and analyze data, to: • understand disease trends and patterns • use custom fields to optimize laboratory processes and patient care • ensure data privacy and control • automate time-consuming reports Doctor Busizwe Sibandze installs GxAlert at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital laboratory with supervision from Tumiso Matumba and SystemOne’s Max Strong. Bangladesh Deep Dive training As of June 2018, a total of 189,484 GeneXpert test results have been uploaded onto GxAlert. Due to GxAlert’s real-time monitoring and immediate feedback capabilities, the data these tests generated led the NTP to take action and yield the following improvements: • National error rates have decreased by 46%; from 6.09% in 2015 to 2.81% in 2017. • The most common test errors and sources, by testing site and user, have been identified. The NTP learned that specimen processing errors were occurring frequently, which prompted retraining efforts for staff. • Being able to manage cartridge stock, including expiry dates for cartridges on GxAlert, has resulted in the NTP being proud to report that stock-outs have been eliminated. • Cepheid’s local distributor can remotely monitor the module status (failures) and take preventive actions that have led to a significant drop in module replacement time, from 5-14 months in 2015 to only 2 weeks in 2017. • From experiencing numerous machine and module failures, the program now has 100% machines operational with 90% of modules operational at any given time. “The SystemOne Data Deep Dive helped us uncover extremely useful data, which enabled us to improve our referral system and see which mutations were prevalent in which regions,”said Sarder Tanzir Hossain.“This alone has helped us ensure we can distribute the right treatment to the right locations.” The NTP intends a national expansion from 200 to 615 machines. As with many countries, NTP staff recognize that eventually the system would benefit from a full- time position to monitor the network and follow up on actionable items, whether these are offline machines, broken modules, or ensuring that referring clinicians are initiating treatment. BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY