We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
People at risk of tuberculosis (TB) are often among the hardest to reach, which can make it difficult for them to access health services. The Cure TB Project worked closely with the Kyrgyz government to ensure that TB services are both high-quality and accessible, even for the country’s most hard-to-reach citizens. As stigma and discrimination…
This presentation highlights the background and resources on the appropriate method of sharps disposal. It presents country practices and evidence on disposal from DMPA-SC self-injection studies and projects, while offering disposal options and considerations for contraceptive self-injection program design and planning. It is designed for in-country stakeholders and decision -makers developing DMPA -SC self-injection programs…
Numerous studies have examined the feasibility and operational aspects (quality, access, use, and cost) of providing priority health interventions through private sector drug shops and pharmacies. Yet gaps in knowledge about characteristics of clients who obtain their contraceptives from drug shops and pharmacies remains. This document looks at the private provider landscape, particularly given that…
In 2014, Advancing Partners & Communities developed the Community Health Systems (CHS) Catalog to address information gaps, advance the WHO’s vision, and help ensure the inclusion of community-based family planning—as well as nutrition and maternal, newborn, and child health–within national agendas. The Community Health Systems (CHS) Catalog is a resource that provides information on community-health…
This case study focuses on the development of reliable data in Pakistan through the IHSS-SD program, administered by JSI with funding from USAID/Pakistan. The data collected and analyzed through this initiative produced tangible positive health system improvements that, utilized well, will increase the health of all communities it incorporates. JSI, 2019.
Strong end-to-end supply chains are the backbone of any successful immunization program. JSI is committed to strengthening the performance of immunization supply chains to support coverage and equity. Our partners depend on us to get the right amount of vaccines, medicines, and other health products and supplies to the people who need them, when they…
We conducted a multicomponent, low-cost, home intervention for children with uncontrolled asthma, the Reducing Ethnic/Racial Asthma Disparities in Youth (READY) study, to evaluate its effect on health outcomes and its return on investment. From 2009 through 2014 the study enrolled 289 children aged 2 to 13 years with uncontrolled asthma and their adult caregivers in…
We implemented a participatory quality improvement strategy in eight primary health care units of Ethiopia to improve use and quality of maternal and newborn health services. We evaluated the effects of this strategy using mixed-methods research. We used before-and-after (March 2016 and November 2017) cross-sectional surveys of women who had children 0–11 months to compare…
Although large-scale provision of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is gaining momentum, no systematic method to evaluate or compare the effectiveness of different scale-up strategies in real-world settings exists. To date, estimating the effectiveness of PrEP has relied on clinical trials or mathematical models. We propose a novel and pragmatic metric to evaluate and compare programme…
Ten years ago – in the late 2000s – the government of Nepal was confronted with high infection-attributable neonatal mortality. There was new, locally-generated evidence that the use of the antiseptic chlorhexidine for the care of the newborn cord stump could substantially reduce the risk of such deaths but – at the time – no…
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