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eVax Cold Chain Guard — Digital Vaccine Cold-Chain Tracking

Lilongwe was one of two pilot districts (with Ntchisi) testing eVax Cold Chain Guard from March 2024, a module of Malawi's national DHIS2-based One Health Surveillance Platform. Technicians tag refrigerators and cold boxes with QR codes and log equipment status by phone, replacing paper registers, ahead of a 2025–2027 plan to add remote temperature sensors.

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📊 Impact

Within four weeks of the March 2024 pilot, technicians across 20 districts had registered about 300 pieces of cold-chain equipment; DHIS2's case study describes inventory data that once took roughly five years to compile as now available within minutes on a dashboard.

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Scale🌍 National

Sources

↗ DHIS2 — Cold Chain Equipment Monitoring in Malawi (technology partner)Primary case study: March 2024 pilot in Lilongwe and Ntchisi, QR-code tagging, 300 items across 20 districts in four weeks, 'five years to five minutes' inventory claim, 2025-2027 national roadmap.

↗ TechNet-21 — DHIS2 cold chain management discussion (professional network)Republishes and corroborates the same figures on a WHO/UNICEF-affiliated immunization professionals network.

↗ Ministry of Health, Malawi (authority)Institutional context for the ministry operating the programme.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “eVax Cold Chain Guard — Digital Vaccine Cold-Chain Tracking” — Lilongwe, Malawi. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/lilongwe-health-telemetry/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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