We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
Ethiopia has implemented community-based neonatal sepsis management as one strategy to reduce its persistently high neonatal mortality rate since 2012. The key strategies to maintain the quality of community-based management of neonatal sepsis are training, supportive supervision, and woreda-level performance review. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of supervision visits provided…
The Government of India launched the RMNCH+A Strategic Approach to improve coverage and quality of service delivery across India with a specific focus on 184 High Priority Districts (HPDs) distributed across all states of the country. The Government of Uttar Pradesh is committed to the national RMNCH+A effort. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has supported the University of Manitoba and…
JSI was engaged to evaluate the Speak Now! campaign, which targeted parents and caregivers and provided evidence-based resources to create awareness to enable then talk to their children about alcohol & other drugs. The campaign was comprised of a website, training, earned, and paid media. The JSI team evaluated the impact of the campaign by measuring behavior change as parents…
This technical brief provides an in-depth overview of the approaches, current results, and expected results of USAID’s Reinforce Basic Health Services Project in Timor-Leste as it works to develop a model municipality in Covalima. In a model municipality, well-trained and competent health providers deliver quality family planning and maternal and child health (MNCH) services in…
Findings illustrate compliance of most intervention facilities with HCWM standards. Nonetheless, achievements in knowledge of transmission of infection by injection and health worker tetanus and hepatitis B vaccination are balanced by areas that could be improved, such as in injection preparation and commodity availability. In several instances, observations revealed discrepancies between on-the-ground practices and officer-in-charge…
This report summarizes the proceedings of the three-day Tanzania Police Force Response to Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children: Planning for the Future meeting. The meeting focused on developing recommendations for the 2017–2020 Police Gender and Children’s Desks (PGCDs) Action Plan. Capacity-building sessions were delivered on topics such leadership skills, women’s empowerment, and adherence to…
This document is a psychosocial support curriculum comprehensive enough to be used by the various teen clubs that were formed in Swaziland to respond to child survival and adolescent growth and development needs. The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in the country have collaborated to bring…
Pharmaceutical waste generally comprises pharmaceutical products and medicinals that are no longer useable because of being expired, withdrawn, recalled, damaged, or for any other reason. The standard operating procedures (SOPs) described herein are recommended for the treatment or processing of pharmaceutical waste, or unusable pharmaceutical products (UPP), using a cement-based solidification/stabilization (S/S) system. These SOPs…
Creating demand for adolescent and adult MC is essential to the success of scale-up. To consolidate what the HIV community has learned to date and advance MC communication, the Male Circumcision Technical Working Group for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) organized the first…
Working with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department's STD/HIV Division, JSI used a community-based social marketing approach to develop social marketing campaigns to promote HIV and STD testing among Black gay men in Santa Clara County, California. Marketing techniques included social media, designs for print media, adoption and customizing of existing materials, and technical assistance to reinforce…
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