What's new in the Core Application Framework: 3.6.0

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We’re excited to announce the release of 3.6.0

New features include an integration with the Africa’s Talking SMS aggregator and a backward compatible enhancement to the processing of mRDT metadata. We’ve also implemented loads of other improvements and fixed a heap of bugs.

Read the release notes for full details: 3.6.0 release notes | Community Health Toolkit

Following our support policy, versions 3.0.0 - 3.4.0 are no longer supported. Projects running these versions should start planning to upgrade in the near future. For more details read our software support documentation: medic-docs/installation/supported-software.md at master · medic/medic-docs · GitHub

To see what’s scheduled for the next releases have a read of the product roadmap: Projects · medic · GitHub

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Nice work everyone!

Integration with Africa’s Talking makes it easier to set up robust two-way SMS messaging in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, and Nigeria. We’ve heard recently that South Africa is also supported.

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Great field video tutorials of malaria Rapid Diagnostic Testing (mRDT) from the Medic and Muso teams:

How to do a mRDT?

How to capture the mRDT photo?

How does the CHW interpret the mRDT result?

How does the supervisor review the mRDT photo?

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The Africa’s Talking integration is going to be useful for soooo many projects. This was a key request for the study on messaging for post-surgical follow up with Caryl Feldacker at I-TECH/University of Washington.

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Hi CHT contributors! Integration with Africa’s Talking was released in v3.6. There have been a few questions regarding how sms aggregators work with the CHT platform to improve two-way messaging. Here’s a workflow diagram using Africa’s Talking to illustrate. We will be looking to add other sms aggregator service providers in the future.

Thanks to @derick and @gareth for helping to put this diagram together

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Is this the full list of countries where AT supports local numbers?

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa

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There is a list of countries shared here

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia and South Africa.