Protecting Zambia at every Point of Entry.

Under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), Zambia screens travellers for communicable-disease risk at its designated air, land and water Points of Entry. POE Sentinel is how the Republic delivers that, end to end — operated by ZNPHI under the Ministry of Health.

An IHR (2005) obligation

Core capacity at the border, delivered as a service.

IHR (2005) requires States to maintain core public-health capacities at designated Points of Entry — the ability to detect, assess, notify and respond to health risks among travellers. POE Sentinel operationalises that obligation for Zambia: a single, connected record per traveller, from pre-arrival self-screening to officer review to national surveillance.

Operated by ZNPHI under the Ministry of Health, Republic of Zambia.
Aligned to IHR (2005) and Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR).
Covers Zambia's designated air, land and water Points of Entry.

At a glance

MandateIHR (2005) · IDSR

Operated byZNPHI · Ministry of Health

Screening tiersSelf · primary · secondary

Diseases scored41 WHO-priority

Data retention100-day auto-purge

How it works

Three connected tiers.

One traveller, one record — carried across self-service, the border and the clinic.

1 · Self-screening

Before arrival, a traveller completes a short health questionnaire on any phone — no app, no login — and receives a signed QR health pass. Risk is computed the instant they submit.

2 · Primary screening

At the Point of Entry, a health officer verifies the QR pass and records primary screening in the offline-first field app — working with or without a signal.

3 · Secondary review

If the explainable-AI engine flags a suspected case, the traveller is referred for a brief clinician-led secondary assessment, with the reasoning shown.

poe-screening.znphi.co.zm/admin/reports

PHEOC command dashboard — screening volume report

Wired into national surveillance

Every screening becomes intelligence.

Scope-aware command dashboard

National, provincial (PHEOC) and district views, enforced on every read and write.

Silent, server-authoritative alerting

Suspected events raise alerts to the right officers without alarming the traveller.

Built to scale

Compute-on-write keeps analytics sub-second across millions of traveller records on modest hardware.

Travelling to Zambia soon?

Pre-screen yourself before you arrive. Under two minutes, no app and no login — you receive a signed QR health pass for a faster, smoother border crossing.

Launch self-screening How it works

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