The last couple of months have seen some important achievements for the CHAMPS site in Ethiopia. We have been given support from the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council for CHAMPS work in Ethiopia. The team traveled to Addis to discuss the work of CHAMPS with the Supreme Council, such that an authoritative legal opinion could be given from a ‘Mufti’ (legal scholar) for a Fatwa - a response to a question posed by an individual or a court of law, in this case on the work of CHAMPS and the acceptability of MITS.

Informatics is crucial to the CHAMPS project, as the informatics office provides the core infrastructure for transporting and housing key health data. In this podcast Senior Manager for Information Technology Patrick Caneer talks about how PHII and its partners manage data for CHAMPS.

'We want to know why our children get sick and die, which contributes to the high infant mortality in the country.’ This statement was a key highlight from community stakeholders during the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance's community engagement work in Sierra Leone in February.