We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a major global health issue, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), that is associated with poor physical and mental health, but its association with breastfeeding practices is understudied. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recommend that children initiate breastfeeding within…
Donors and others were concerned that implants procured under the Family Planning 2020 Initiative exceeded the number sought by clients, resulting in accumulating stocks. This issue was examined by looking at data from nine countries using a model that incorporates public-sector supply chain system parameters to calculate system "imputed" inventory and the system "filled to max"…
Ethiopia has been expanding maternity waiting homes to bridge geographical gaps between health facilities and communities in order to improve access to skilled care. In 2015, the Ministry of Health revised its national guidelines to standardize the rapid expansion of waiting homes. Little has been done to document their distribution, service availability and readiness. This…
Geographical information systems (GIS) can be effective decision-support tools. In this paper, the authors detail a GIS approach implemented by the Bauchi and Sokoto state primary healthcare development agencies in Nigeria to generate and convert routine immunization (RI) paper maps to digital maps for micro planning. Authors: Leanne Dougherty, Masduq Abdulkarim, Fiyidi Mikailu, Usman Tijani,…
Six years ago, Ethiopia began the process of transforming its supply chain for vaccines through a complete system redesign and a transfer of management to the Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency (EPSA) the national supply chain agency. The goal was to improve supply chain efficiency and boost immunizations rates. Read about our work with EPSA, the…
From September 2016 through June 2018, JSI developed and implemented a comprehensive evaluation of Massachusetts's Healthy Incentives Program (HIP). The evaluation assessed the first three years of HIP's development and implementation (April 2015 through June 2018). This report presents evaluation methods and findings and was written by JSI Research & Training Instititute, Inc in 2019.
To accelerate reductions in undernutrition, nutrition-specific interventions need to be coupled with nutrition-sensitive programmes that tackle the underlying causes of undernutrition. This paper describes the planned economic evaluation of the UPAVAN trial, a four-arm, cluster randomised controlled trial that tests the nutritional and agricultural impacts of an innovative agriculture extension platform of women's groups viewing…
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to be among the greatest public health threats worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Condom use remains an essential intervention to eradicate AIDS, and condom use is now higher than ever. However, free and subsidized condom funding is declining. Research on how to create healthy markets based…
The availability of PrEP as a biomedical mechanism for HIV prevention is considered a “game changer” in HIV prevention efforts, much as the widespread availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART—more commonly referred to as “ART”) was considered for HIV treatment in 1996. However, many of the questions that followed this breakthrough in HIV treatment…
Pneumococcal carriage is a precursor of invasive pneumococcal disease. Mozambique introduced 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) in April 2013, using a 3-dose schedule without a booster. They evaluated PCV10 impact on pneumococcal carriage and colonization density by HIV status. They conducted 2 cross-sectional surveys (pre and post PCV10 introduction) among children 6 weeks to 59…
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