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Adherence to Standards for MNH Service Delivery at Public and Private Facilities
This analysis, conducted under the Data for Impact (D4I) award, leverages Service Provision Assessment (SPA) data from 2012–2022 to evaluate the adherence of MNH service providers to WHO process standards. The study examines differences between public and private facilities, including for-profit and not-for-profit (NFP) facilities, and tracks changes over time in selected countries.
Safe Childbirth Checklist Landscape Analysis
Globally, almost 135 million births occurred in 2023 (United Nations Population Division, 2024), and around 285,000 women* die each year due to pregnancy or childbirth-related causes (World Health Organization [WHO], 2024b). According to the WHO, the most frequent causes of maternal mortality are postpartum hemorrhage, infection after childbirth, and high blood pressure during pregnancy.
Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Nigeria
COUNSELING, INFORMED CONSENT, AND DEBRIEFING (CCD) are important aspects of respectful maternity care (RMC) and medical ethics. Cesarean section (CS) is one of the most performed surgical procedures in the world. RMC remains important even when maternity care becomes surgical.
Maternal Mental Health: A Toolkit for Engaging Faith Actors as Change Agent
Given the high prevalence of mental health conditions in the perinatal period—pregnancy up to two years after birth—global attention to mental health is essential. Communities must work together to support prevention, early detection, and treatment of mental health conditions during pregnancy and postpartum, when the risk of mental disorders is highest.
Keeping Supply Chain Workers Safe During a Pandemic
Trained human resources are the most valuable asset in the supply chain.
Actions to Take Now to Ensure Routine Supplies Are Available
As resources like fuel, access to vehicles, and healthy staff become scarcer, health systems’ abilities to provide routine health care will be ever more challenged. Vigilance is critical to securing business operations in affected regions.
Use of Dedicated Volunteer Community Mobilizers for Polio Eradication Program in Pastoralist, Hard to reach and Bordering part of Ethiopia
The surveillance intervention in Ethiopia has not adequately involved the community to be part of the surveillance system. The level of community sensitization and eventual detection and reporting of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases is minimal.
Leveraging the Polio Legacy for Global Health Security
Kenya and Ethiopia have robust programs. The CGPP-GHSA project works in six counties in Kenya and in 85 counties across five regions in Ethiopia. The CGPP project outperforms the strictly public sector polio alert system.
Updated Program Functionality Matrix for Optimizing Community Health Programs
The USAID Health Care Improvement (HCI) Project developed the CHW AIM Toolkit in 2011 to help organizations assess community health program functionality and improve program performance. As with the original AIM tool, this updated version is intended to capacitate the processes of programmatic design, planning, assessment, and improvement, for stakeholders ranging from local NGOs, to national policymakers and planners, to global stakeholders.
Stories Without an Ending: An Adult Education Tool for Dialogue and Social Change (English & French)
The purpose of this guide is to help organizations involved in community programs to develop and use SWE. This innovative adult education tool can be used to actively engage community groups in discussion of issues of priority concern to them and/or to development programs and to catalyze discussion of those issues in the wider community.
Task Sharing Tubal Ligation Services with Health Officers in Ethiopia
Voluntary long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and permanent methods are important family planning options. However, in many developing countries, a shortage of trained health providers presents a barrier to accessing these methods. Task sharing LARC and permanent method services with mid-level clinical providers can increase family planning access and choice.
Increasing Access to Maternal Health Services through Vouchers: The Uganda Healthy Baby Experience
Why a maternal health voucher in Uganda?
What Does the Informal Sector Know about Health Insurance?
Findings from a Survey Conducted in Nairobi, Kenya
Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition (English & French)
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how to plan and carry out a rapid community assessment on family roles and influence related to the first critical 1,000 days of life i.e. during pregnancy, with newborns and young children up to two years of age.
Tebita Ambulance and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services
The country’s highly fragmented emergency medical transport system means a complicated pregnancy can easily become a life-threatening situation for a woman trying to reach a hospital.
Task Shifting: Enabling broader service provision by a wider range of providers
Clear movement towards task sharing and data that shows it is safe and acceptable – how to translate this into replication the private sector?
What Does the Informal Sector Know about Health Insurance?
Findings from a Survey Conducted in Nairobi, Kenya
Diarrhea Management Knowledge,Attitudes and Practices amongCaregivers and Providers in Uganda
Caregivers’ level of awareness about causes of diarrhea is adequate but awareness of appropriate diarrhea treatments is poor. According to providers, caregivers demand specific treatments (primarily antibiotics) for their children. This in turn influences which treatments providers recommend.
Improving Quality of Women’s Health and Family Planning Services in Jordan’s Private Health Sector
Presentation reviews the goals of the project, 2005-2012