Progress of iHOPE study design and data collection meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam

Rationale for the meeting
The iHOPE project has started data collection in Vietnam and Ghana and training is on the way in Burkina Faso. The data collection follows a meeting of all the sites in Navrongo, Ghana where the team worked on the study instruments including a pilot a pre-test of the instruments. This year’s site meeting will be held in Vietnam will focus on discussing the issues emanating in the data collection, we should also be able to look and interrogate data that already been collected against the study objectives. As part of the objective of the meeting we will discuss the products that will be shared with the Scientific Advisory Group of the project.

Outcome

• Understand the process leading to dat collection
• Interrogated preliminary data from the sites
• Prepare products to be shared with SAG