title: Innovative data tools: a suite for managing peer outreach to key affected populations in Viet Nam.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The paper tools used to monitor outreach work in all major cities in Viet Nam had substantial writing requirements for each contact with difficulty maintaining confidentiality.
  
  
  METHODS
  This paper describes the development of a Unique Identifier Code (UIC), a field data collection notebook (databook) and a computer data entry system in Viet Nam. The databook can document 40 individual clients and has space for commodity distribution, group contacts and needles/syringe collection for each month.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Field implementation trials of the UIC and databook have been undertaken by more than 160 peer outreach workers to document their work with people who inject drugs (PWID) and sex workers (SW). Following an expanded trial in Hai Phong province, there have been requests for national circulation of the databook to be used by peer educators documenting outreach to PWID, SW and men who have sex with men. The standardized UIC and databook, in a variety of locally adapted formats, have now been introduced in more than 40 of the 63 provinces in Viet Nam.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This development in Viet Nam is, to our knowledge, the first example of the combination of a confidential UIC and an innovative, simple pocket-sized paper instrument with associated customized data-entry software for documenting outreach.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization Country Office, Ha Noi, Viet Nam .
authors.forename: Nguyen Thien
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Nga
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jacka
authors.forename: Nguyen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Van Hai
authors.forename: Nguyen Kieu
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Trinh
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boisen
authors.forename: Josselyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Neukom
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