We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
The Scaling Up Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) Interventions project, also known as “Vriddhi,” supports the scale-up of high impact RMNCH+A interventions through innovative programming and by working closely with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the National Health Mission, and state governments. In consensus with IPEG and USAID, JSI focused…
Introducing new vaccines requires careful planning and provides an opportunity to strengthen existing immunization systems. This infographic shows how JSI has supported 76 new vaccine introductions in 25 countries around the globe, including rotavirus to prevent childhood deaths and HPV to prevent cervical cancer. JSI, 2018.
Increasing numbers of children are requiring long-term HIV care and antiretroviral treatment (ART) in public ART programs in Africa but temporal trends and long-term outcomes in care remain poorly understood. Analysis was done on infants and children up to 10 enrolling in a public tertiary ART center in Zimbabwe over an eight year period from…
Partner Notification: A Handbook for Designing and Implementing Programs and Services was developed as a technical update on successful partner notification (PN) programs, offering a synthesis of best practices, models, challenges, and solutions that can be used to develop and implement effective PN programs. Comprehensive HIV testing services, including PN, are critical links into the HIV…
The updated Payment Reform Readiness Assessment Tool identifies key competency areas needed for successful health center engagement in payment reform models. It is not specific to one payer type or payment reform model. Rather, it is designed to capture core readiness areas that are needed for participation on in a variety of payment reform models….
Condoms remain a key component of evidence-based, high-impact HIV prevention programs. To add to the limited evidence on condom counseling in the context of biomedical interventions, AIDSFree conducted a study that closely examined approaches for providing condom services, and the quality of services, in two Ugandan programs that offer antiretroviral therapy and combination HIV prevention…
The Gender-based Violence Initiative (GBVI) was the culmination of several years of work on the part of PEPFAR, in particular the PEPFAR Gender Technical Working Group. PEPFAR recognized the links between gender and HIV starting with the original 2003 legislation. As part of the second phase of PEPFAR, under the leadership of Secretary Clinton and…
While global efforts to scale up HIV care and treatment for adults have strengthened access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), access among children and adolescents has lagged behind. In Kenya, an estimated 614,000 children and adolescents are living with HIV; of these, only 42% are receiving lifesaving care and treatment. Although Kenya possesses a diverse and…
The widespread use of multidose vaccine containers in low and middle income countries' immunization programs is assumed to have multiple benefits and efficiencies for health systems, yet the broader impacts on immunization coverage, costs, and safety are not well understood. To document what is known on this topic, how it has been studied, and confirm…
Since 2013, HIV interventions in Angola to address MTCT and HIV in children have centered on expanding integrated services for antenatal care (ANC) and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), and on improving the quality of HIV health services. The Government of Angola has sought to align with international norms for PMTCT, including the Millennium Development…
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