Making Space for Unquantifiable Data: Hand-drawn Data Visualization

This project makes space for personal “data” around labor and care, prompting users to consider the concrete and abstract (quantifiable and unquantifiable) forms labor and care take in their lives. The interactive, subjective data visualization uses hand-drawn visual elements to foreground that data about care and human interaction will always be ambiguous and complex, that they may never be satisfactorily or universally quantified, and that they will always be out of reach of perfect categorization. The project provides an alternative to prescriptive truth-telling with data. Instead of using a dataset to provide data-driven answers and insights to users, the interactive and illustrative nature of this project encourages users to reflect on their own experiences of the topic and consider the value of universal data-driven statements. The project can be viewed at https://esibinga.github.io/capstone/. The code repository is publicly available at https://github.com/esibinga/capstone

Poor economics - Transforming challenges in transfusion medicine and science into opportunities

The prospect of cryopreservation of cellular components in the low and medium income (poor economics) part of the world absolutely needs a solid and sustainable infrastructure to build on in line with science, technology and globalization, based on rational thinking, standardization and harmonization of future advances we are currently witnessing in limited parts of the world. With the stepwise development of the healthcare stimulated by the 2012 UN Universal Health Coverage (UHC) program and supported by WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EM) and Essential in vitro Diagnostics (ED), a slowly growing number of countries will reach a point where quality cryopreservation of cellular components becomes feasible as an advance for implementing specific health care visions, policies and strategies in line with the Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030

Health economics of blood transfusion safety - focus on sub-Saharan Africa

Background and objectives. Health economics provides a standardised methodology for valid comparisons of interventions in different fields of health care. This review discusses the health economic evaluations of strategies to enhance blood product safety in sub-Saharan Africa Methods. We reviewed health economic methodology with special reference to cost-effectiveness analysis We searched the literature for cost-effectiveness in blood product safety in sub-Saharan Africa. Result HIV-antibody screening in different settings in sub-Saharan Africa showed health gains and saved costs Except for adding HIV-p24 screening, adding other tests such as nucleic acid amplification testing (NAT) to HIV-antibody screening displayed incremental cost-effectiveness ratios greater than the WHO/World Bank specified threshold for cost-effectiveness. The addition of HIV-p24 in combination with HCV antibody/antigen screening and multiplex (HBV, HCV and HIV) NAT in pools of 24 may also be cost-effective options for Ghana Conclusions From a health economic viewpoint. HIV-antibody screening should always be implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. The addition of HIV-p24 antigen screening, in combination with HCV antibody/antigen screening and multiplex (HBV. HCV and HIV) NAT in pools of 24 may be feasible options for Ghana. Suggestions for future health economic evaluations of blood transfusion safety interventions in sub-Saharan Africa are mis-transfusion, laboratory quality and donor management.(C) 2009 The International Association for Biologicals Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved