We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
This story follows Daw Ng Kham Noom, a midwife with 4 years of experience at the Man Phai Sub-Center in Mong Yai Township, following the Basic Health Staff (BHS) cascade training in Mong Yai. Daw Ng Kham believes that the training helped her improve her capacity in reducing neonatal, infant, and under-5 child mortality rates…
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been implemented in Myanmar since 1999, with the collaboration of WHO and UNICEF. The neonatal component was incorporated in 2011 to complete the package of IMNCI. This is a report of the Facility-based Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness in Southern Shan State case study. It includes…
As countries strengthen their data infrastructures, global health professionals increasingly need data from multiple sources for monitoring programs and for preventing and controlling the spread of epidemics. To accomplish this, countries are developing health information exchange protocols — also called interoperability layers or health information mediators — and establishing data repositories. This working paper is…
The South African national eHealth strategy (2012/2013–2016/2017) includes a strategic priority focused on the realization of benefits. The strategy states that “[s]pecific actions are required to ensure that eHealth implementations deliver on their promise and that anticipated benefits are realized for all stakeholders.” The activity highlighted within this priority was the development of “…a benefits…
The MEASURE Evaluation Strategic Information for South Africa (MEval-SIFSA) project and other partners have provided support to the South African National Department of Health in the implementation and rollout of the MomConnect mobile health intervention since its launch in August 2014. As part of this support, in 2016 MEval-SIFSA conducted a system and data assessment…
In Kenya, according to a 2013 assessment, approximately 353,000 people are unimmunized,1 and DPT3 coverage in the poorest wealth quintile is 10% lower than in the highest quintile. A situation analysis of routine immunization (RI) in Kisumu City was conducted to assess the immunization status of children, and to understand the challenges and barriers to…
This presentation outlines the impact of electronic information systems on HIV service delivery in Zambia. Beginning in 2014, the Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project, funded by the U.S. President´s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the United States Agency for International Development, worked with the Zambian government to pilot and…
This document provides implementing partners supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with a collection of the best resources available for sites providing voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention. This is Edition 2; Edition 1, released in 2013, focused on assisting implementing partners and site staff with opening new…
In 2014, USAID/Tanzania awarded the Tanzania Strengthening Police and Prison Comprehensive HIV Services (SPPCHS) project as an initiative under the AIDSFree project. The SPPCHS project worked with the Ministry of Home Affairs to design a peer education program for prisons to provide knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent and respond to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV…
In developing countries, health care waste management (HCWM) has not received the attention it deserves, and as a result, hazardous medical wastes are handled and disposed of with general municipal waste—at great risk to the health of clinic service providers (CSPs), environmental health officers (EHOs), waste handlers, the public, and the environment. In Nigeria, with…
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