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Youth ages 13- 24 account for an estimated 26 percent of all new HIV infections in 2010 with 60 percent of youths with HIV/AIDS unaware of their infection. Black youth account for an estimated 57 percent of all new HIV infections among youth in the U.S., followed by Hispanic/Latino and white youth. Nearly 75 percent…
The “My Choice” project’s vision is to contribute to the Government of Indonesia’s family planning (FP) goal to increase the nation’s modern contraceptive prevalence rate. The My Choice project is designed to create a consumer-focused, consumer-driven approach to assist Indonesia in addressing its stagnating contraceptive prevalence (CPR), unmet need, and skewed method mix where long-acting…
The USAID-supported VRIDDHI project is a technical partner to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to scale up Government of India’s RMNCH+A strategy. VRIDDHI supports six state governments of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab and Uttarakhand and 30 high-priority districts (HPDs) therein to scale up RMNCH+A interventions. The support provided…
In 2010 in the United States, over 25.7 million people currently had asthma (1 in 8 Americans), including an estimated 7 million of children and 18.7 million of adults. Nationally, the prevalence of asthma has been increasing since 1980 across all age, sex, and racial groups. In Massachusetts, the prevalence of asthma is among the…
In the midst of the Ebola outbreak, it was imperative that the Liberian health system continue to provide basic health services even while addressing the Ebola epidemic. Liberian health care workers (HCWs) and health facility staff needed be effectively informed and protected. Adequate supplies of personal protection equipment (PPE) had to be provided in conjunction…
Knowledge Management Services supports USAID to increase its capacity to manage and evaluate its programs and to demonstrate and document the importance and impact of its global health portfolio. JSI is the primary subcontractor, with Insight Systems as prime contractor, on this project that supports USAID’s Global Health Bureau with a wide range of knowledge…
Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with three or more doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) is known to reduce associated morbidity and mortality among mothers and newborns in malaria-endemic areas. Between December 2014 and December 2015, JSI scaled-up the delivery of IPTp-SP to all pregnant women in three local government areas (LGAs) of Sokoto State,…
In Tanzania, HIV is among the leading causes of death, particularly among young people. An estimated 1.4 million adults are living with HIV (Tanzania HIV Impact Survey 2018) and 2.3 million children have been orphaned due to AIDS (Tanzania Country Operational Plan 2018). However, Tanzania only has 44% of the required human resources for health…
MEASURE Evaluation supported countries to strengthen their health information systems (HIS) and built the capacity to generate and use high-quality information for informed and evidence-based decisions that improved the health of their people. JSI, a partner on the project since 1997, led HIS strengthening and capacity-building activities in seven countries that focused on increasing demand…
JSI enhanced the skills of district staff and service providers in Zanzibar and the Mainland, Tanzania, through ongoing technical support to ensure data collected and entered into the DHIS2 system is of high quality and relevancy The MEASURE Evaluation Tanzania Associate Award supported the Government of Tanzania (GoT) in the roll-out and implementation of DHIS2….