We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
According to the 2018 Global Tuberculosis Report released by the World Health Organization (WHO), tuberculosis (TB) is the tenth leading cause of death and is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent (WHO, 2018). Heads of state committed to ambitious targets aimed at eliminating TB during the firstever United Nations High-Level Meeting…
The Quality of Tuberculosis Services Assessment (QTSA) is conducted with the support of four tools: the Facility Audit, the Provider Interview, the Patient Interview, and the Register Review. MEASURE Evaluation—a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—developed these four tools with the assistance of colleagues at USAID. The tools exist in…
The Philippines has one of the most severe epidemics of Tuberculosis (TB), with an estimated 500 new cases per 100,000 population. This rate is higher than the 150 to 400 per 100,000 population in most of the 30 high-burden TB countries. In response, the Philippines has enacted a TB law, which called for the creation of…
The Quality of Tuberculosis Services Assessment (QTSA) is conducted with the support of four tools: the Facility Audit, the Provider Interview, the Patient Interview, and the Register Review. MEASURE Evaluation—a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)— developed these four tools with the assistance of colleagues at USAID. The tools exist…
Uganda is one of the 30 countries with the highest burden of TB/HIV, with an estimated TB incidence of 200 cases per 100,000. The proportion of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and rifampin-resistant TB among new and previously treated TB cases was estimated at 1 percent and 12 percent, respectively, in 2018. For the estimated 86,000 people who…
cStock is a digital supply chain strengthening approach, implemented via multiple digital platforms. Community health workers (CHWs) use cStock to report their health supplies stock levels, and the cStock system calculates which supplies, and the quantity, that the CHWs need and sends an alert to the supervisor responsible for their resupply. CHWs receive a message…
The global effort to protect all people from vaccine-preventable diseases has historically leveraged multidose containers in low- and middle-income countries to offer lower prices and reduce the constraints on cold chain space. However, as newer, more expensive vaccines are introduced in multidose formats, the burden of cost-efficiency potentially moves from the national-level to the health…
This is the presentation delivered by Reinforce Basic Health Services Project Chief of Party Dr. Harriet Stanley at the project's closeout conference in October 2020. It details the project's results and recommendations for the way forward.
JSI’s USAID-supported Reinforce Project and the Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS) strengthened management, leadership, and governance, resulting in improvements to standard operating procedures, quality monitoring, information-sharing within the INS and with stakeholders, implementation of competency-based in-service training, and a commitment to continue strategic planning. In fewer than five years, this investment has positioned the INS to scale…
JSI's USAID-funded Reinforce Basic Health Services is a five-year project (2016-2021) working with Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Health to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies. This booklet, developed in 2020, compiles a series of success stories from the project.
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