Tutorial: How to Fill-in Data in the mapCrowd?

GENERAL TIPS

1. Use Google Chrome to access the mapCrowd platform. Other web browsers may not display all the options or save your progress correctly;

2. For some data points you will have a simple choice between yes, no and unknown

3. In empty boxes you can enter figures for prices, prevalence estimates, other numbers. In some of the boxes you will be prompted to write a short text to complement the information you provided in other data points;

4. For some data points there will be multiple choices;

5. There is a comment section linked to each data point (in diagnostics) or section (in treatment and policy) where you’ll be able to provide sources of the data and/or give more details about the data you provided. For instance, we request specific prices on diagnostics and treatments. You should enter the prices paid by public and private health systems. In the comment section, you can also indicate the out-of-pocket cost for patients, if some patients can access the medicines for free, or other relevant information. The comment section looks like this:

Prices requested in the HCV diagnostics and HCV treatment sections can be entered in any currency. You will choose the currency of your preference when starting a new data entry, and it will be automatically converted to US$ for the public section of the website, taking into account the current exchange rates.

Save your work!
After entering data, please remember to save your work by clicking on any of the three saving buttons at the end of each section. The system allows you to fill in as many fields as you want in a session, and to log out and come back to it later as long as you save your progress as you fill in the fields. To save, click on any of these saving options:

Now let’s explore together the mapCrowd platform!

TO LOGIN

Go to www.mapcrowd.org
This will take you to the public section of the website.
Scroll down to the end of the page and click on “admin” at the bottom left.
Enter your email address and password, then click on login.

If this is your first time accessing the platform, you will need to reset your password.
Go to “Forgotten your password or username?”.
Enter your email address and click “Reset my password”.
You will receive an email with a link to create a new password for your account.
Now you can enter your email and the password you created to access the admin section.

FILLING IN DATA

To start filling in data go to www.mapcrowd.org
You can login into the admin section.
Don’t worry, we won’t go into the details of all the questions, but we will provide you an overview of the tool and when necessary explain some of the questions.
You will land on your admin page. It should look like this:

Click on “data entries” to check all data entries assigned to the country or countries you have permission to edit. Here you will see that there is already a data entry for 2021 for each country or countries you have permission to edit. This is the information that is already on the database, so you don’t need to edit it.

To create a new data entry for 2022, click on “add data entry” on the top right corner of the screen:

Then select a country, the currency you will be using to fill in the data and the year of the data you will be entering. For example, to add data for 2022, you should choose “2022” in this field, then click on save and continue. You will see the new entry you just created in the list of entries, like this:

Click on the new entry, and you will be redirected to this page:

In this page you will see all the categories of data points in the menu on the left. You can navigate through them, just remember to save your progress as you fill in the data.

On general information there are 8 fields. The first 4 fields are filled with the information you selected on the previous step. Please check if the currency you selected is the one you intended and do not edit the “currency factor” field, the system will convert the currency to US dollars automatically. Remember to save your work before progressing to another section.
The next section automatically opens once you save your progress.

Please skip this section as the information will be filled in by the website administrators using World Bank data.

On epidemiological information there are 14 fields. The data is derived from reviews of HCV epidemiology literature. The source, when available, is indicated in the comment area that you can view in the public part of the website along with the data fields on that section.
Please note: Use data from the national government. If you have more accurate and recent data, please enter the new data by simply clicking in the box. While providing the source or any other relevant information in the comment box below, be as precise as possible, and include links when possible. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Diagnostics: Screening (antibody) section there are 3 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each field (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of these questions, the system will expand the question with additional fields - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box below. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Diagnostics: Virological tests (confirmatory) section there are 5 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each field (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of these questions, the system will expand the question with additional fields - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box below. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Diagnostics: Core Antigen section there is 1 field. There are three possible answers to choose from for the field (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes”, the system will expand the question with additional fields - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box below. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Diagnostics: Liver Staging section there are 3 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each field (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of the questions, the system will expand the question with additional fields - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box below. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this diagnostics section there are 5 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each of the first 2 fields (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of the questions, the system will expand the question with additional fields - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. On the following 3 fields, you can type the information requested. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box below. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Treatment: Medicines section there are 15 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each of the first 14 fields (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of the questions, the system will expand the questions with additional fields - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Treatment: Patents section there are 13 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each of the first 6 fields (yes, no and unknown). For the following 6 fields, there are boxes where you can select one or more options (hold control/command in your keyboard to click over multiple options). Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Treatment: Data exclusivity section there are 6 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each of the first 5 fields (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of the questions, the system will expand the field with an additional question - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. The options can be selected from a box (hold control/command in your keyboard to click over multiple options). Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Treatment: HIV section there are 19 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each of the first 18 fields (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” for any of the questions, the system will expand the question with an additional field for your input - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Treatment: HBV section there are 6 fields. There are initially three possible answers to choose from for each of the first 5 fields (yes, no and unknown). If you choose “yes” on any of them, the system will expand the question with additional fields for your input - to ensure this, please click on “yes” again after selecting it. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Policy: Plan section there are 20 fields. Depending on the field, there may be three types of answers (yes, no and unknown) or a comment box for you to type the information requested. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Policy: Services section there are 15 fields. There are three possible answers to choose from (yes, no and unknown). Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this HCV Policy: Coverage section there are 28 fields. Depending on the field, there may be three possible answers to choose from (yes, no and unknown) or a comment box for you to type the information requested. Please remember to add comments and sources into the comments box at the end of the section. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.

In this section there is only one field. You can check the “is published” option to make the data you entered available in the public part of the website. If you want to keep the data unpublished, leave the box unchecked - don’t worry, your data will be kept safe in the database either way. After entering data, please remember to save your work at the end of each section.