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Urban residents and environments are increasingly subject to climate change-related shocks and stresses like natural disasters, pandemics, and famine. These events make communities vulnerable, accelerate poverty, and undermine long-term economic and social well-being. Developing resilient urban planning and management strategies is one important way to protect these vulnerable communities. However, policymakers and practitioners struggle to…
JSI programs focus on enhancing high-quality prevention and treatment interventions through partnering with national TB programs and other local public and private partners, to ensure continued person-centered care, treatment, and prevention. We focus on all steps of the TB cascade including TB preventive treatment, infection prevention and control, case finding, diagnosis, and treatment for drug-sensitive…
Egypt’s fertility rate increased from three births per woman in 2008 to three and a half births in 2014 while contraceptive prevalence decreased from 60% to 58% during the same time leading to a jump in the country’s population. To help the Egyptian government’s goal of curbing the birth rate, the USAID-funded Strengthening Egypt’s Family…
Task sharing in healthcare is an effective strategy that addresses the critical lack of providers by creating a more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among the existing cadres of health providers to improve access to care. Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population/Family Planning (MOHP/FP) Sector in partnership with the USAID-funded Strengthening Egypt’s Family Planning…
Egypt has seen rapid population growth in the past two decades, which can adversely affect maternal and child health and further impact climate change and Egyptians’ overall health and well-being. Through the Government of Egypt’s efforts supported by the USAID Strengthening Egypt’s Family Planning Program (SEFFP), three key approaches are applied to strengthen access to…
Rapid population growth can strain resources and lead to health, economic, and social challenges. In Egypt, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) in partnership with the USAID-funded Strengthening Egypt’s Family Planning Program (SEFFP) is strengthening Egyptians’ knowledge about the positive outcomes family planning can have on overpopulation in the country. SEFPP in close collaboration…
The Improve Primary Healthcare Service Delivery, with funding from Gates Foundation, is supporting Ethiopia's goals to achieve high-quality and equitable community health and reproductive, maternal, and child health structures and services.
Supporting the primary healthcare system is the backbone of almost everything we do across the world. This brief highlights why primary healthcare is so critical and what we are working on within the primary healthcare space to ensure greater equity and higher quality of primary healthcare.
This timeline illustrates JSI's 30 year history in Ethiopia and maps out progress we have helped to establish alongside the government of Ethiopia, the Federal Ministry of Health, donors (including USAID, CIFF, Gates Foundation and Gavi, among others), partners and national organizations.
In honor of World Humanitarian Day, this infographic encourages humanitarian responders to join the Humanitarian Commodities Logistics (HCL) community, a subgroup of the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL). Since 2007, IAPHL has supported health logisticians worldwide by providing a forum for members to network, exchange ideas, and improve skills. HCL brings a special…