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JSI India publishes the bimonthly Rota Talk newsletter to regularly update partners and the government on the introduction of rotavirus vaccine in India. JSI India is the lead technical partner for rotavirus vaccine introduction in India. As of September 2019, India had officially introduced rotavirus vaccine in all 37 states and union territories (UTs).
Slums in urban settings are fast expanding and unprecedented proportions of urbanites are now living in slums, with compromised provision of health services. Slum dwellers in urban settings often face multifaceted barriers to accessing available health services. There is a paucity of evidence on identifying barriers in vulnerable urban centers of Ethiopia. This study aims…
Currently, one third of urban residents in Africa and Asia reside in slum settings with a compromised state of health, and this proportion is increasing at an alarming rate. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that 70-80% of the urban population lives in settings that are believed to be slums and most of the urban population…
Across the globe, for a variety of socioeconomic and health related reasons, people are choosing to reside in urban as opposed to rural areas. However, there is limited evidence on the profiles of people living in vulnerable sections of urban settings. This paper aims to examine vulnerable sections and their residents in selected urban centers in…
In order to achieve global and national health targets in Ethiopia, it is crucial that cadres of leaders have the skills, knowledge and tools to manage and govern the primary health care reform initiative currently underway. To support this, John Snow, Inc. (Strengthening Ethiopia’s Urban Health Program (JSI/SEUHP),the implementing partner, collaborated with the Federal Ministry…
The Strengthening Ethiopia’s Urban Health Program (SEUHP), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), initiated the pilot testing of the Urban Community Health Information System (UCHIS) in three sites (Addis Ababa, Bishoftu and Hawassa) to support the Ethiopian Federal Ministry Health (FMOH) in its efforts to standardize and expand the Health Management…
Recently, there has been a growing interest in quality improvement (QI) interventions to enhance the health care services provision. However, applying QI interventions to community-based health services (CBHS) is still a limited practice. Strengthening Ethiopia’s Urban Health Program (SEUHP), implemented by John Snow, Inc., used QI principles to address certain challenges in the implementation of…
The Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) is an innovative Ethiopian government plan to ensure health service equity by creating demand for essential health services through the provision of appropriate health information at the household level. Even though the HEP was launched in Ethiopia in 2003 as the flagship program for the implementation of primary health…
The Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) – an innovative Ethiopian government plan to ensure health service equity by creating demand for essential health services through the provision of appropriate health information at a household level – is one of the three approaches of the national Health Extension Program (HEP). As health extension workers (HEWs) are…
The Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) – an innovative Ethiopian government plan to ensure health service equity by creating demand for essential health services through the provision of appropriate health information at a household level – is one of the three approaches of the national Health Extension Program (HEP).The UHEP is organized to deliver services…
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