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JSI is driven by the fundamental goal to ensure that all individuals can live their best and healthiest lives and that everyone has a right to quality education, regardless of age or circumstances. JSI’s steadfast commitment to equity and justice across our health and education portfolio advances this goal. The climate crisis and environmental disaster…
Strong health supply chains save lives by ensuring that high-quality, affordable health products are available to clients. However, the production, transport, use, and final disposal of products generate greenhouse gas emissions and waste, accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss. JSI believes access to health is a right, not a privilege. People deserve on-demand access to…
This case study summarizes the successes achieved by the USAID Integrated Health Systems Strengthening and Service Delivery (IHSS-SD) Activity’s support to Pakistan’s 2022 national pediatric COVID-19 vaccination campaign including an in-depth analysis of factors contributing to the campaign’s success.
In Rajkot, India, the USAID-funded Asia Resilient Cities (ARC) Project is collaborating with Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) to support their vision of building climate resilience in the context of rapid urbanization. ARC is working in alignment with the Smart City Mission initiative of the Government of India focused on driving economic growth and improving the…
This article discusses how JSI, UNICEF Nepal, and Dhulikhel Hospital–Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences used the Journey to Health and Immunization framework to engage a diverse group of stakeholders in increasing the capacity of practitioners to use behavioral science in immunization programming. Citation: Castle, Nicole, Surakshya Kunwar, Leela Khanal, Lisa Oot, Katharine Elkes, Swechhya…
The purpose of this landscape is to provide the Gavi CLH and stakeholders in Uganda with a comprehensive overview of the immunization landscape within the country, with a special focus on ZD and under-immunized children. Gavi defines a ZD child as one who has not received a single dose of a diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis-containing…
This tool measures person-centered care (PCC) at health facilities providing HIV treatment. It is designed for HIV implementers and service providers to collaboratively assess the health facility's ability to provide person-centered HIV treatment, demonstrate areas of strength for organizational learning, and tailor investments in further interventions or improvements.
In Kyrgyzstan, the USAID Cure Tuberculosis project, led by JSI, facilitated patient-friendly reforms in Bishkek's centralized tuberculosis (TB) care system. The project worked with the Ministry of Health to reorganize the Bishkek city TB Center (BCTC) and relocate TB specialists to deliver services at primary health care (PHC). To achieve this, new basic regulations were…
The high prevalence of drug-resistant TB in Kyrgyzstan has significant social and economic consequences, especially in small communities where stigma and discrimination of people who have TB are prevalent. Many people eschew treatment because they do not recognize TB symptoms, lack confidence in treatment, or avoid discussing it with other people and health care providers….
During Russia’s war against Ukraine, local organization 100% LIFE identified alternate distribution networks to deliver life-saving HIV treatments to all areas, including war zones.