We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
The widespread use of multidose vaccine containers in low- and middle-income countries’ immunization programs is assumed to offerbenefits and efficiencies for health systems, such as reducing the purchase price per vaccine dose and easing cold chain requirements. As part of the Dose per Container Partnership (DPCP), the HERMES Logistics Modeling Team used computer simulation modeling…
The widespread use of multidose vaccine containers in low- and middle- income countries’ immunization programs is assumed to offer benefits and efficiencies for health systems, such as reducing the purchase price per vaccine dose and easing cold chain requirements. In the balance between achieving high coverage and avoiding wastage in Vietnam’s immunization program, HCWs and…
This poster looks at process indicators for routine immunization and the importance of routine immunization data quality. It explores which process indicators are appropriate for providing real-time system data to demonstrate strengthening of routine immunization (RI) on a pathway to uniformly high immunization coverage that is sustainable over time. Process indicators are critical for decision…
Older age groups are less likely than their younger counterparts to be regularly active and women are even less active. Ecological models suggest that multiple levels of influence with each level influencing the next level impacts physical activity behaviors. It was found that behavior-specific physical activity, as well as total physical activity, led to a…
Between 2014 and 2015, Madagascar had 11 confirmed cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, signifying challenges with the routine immunization system that urgently needed attention. In response to this outbreak, the national Expanded Program on Immunization and partners implemented 13 national and sub-national supplemental polio immunization campaigns and conducted a series of five external outbreak response assessments…
This results summary details USAID DISCOVER-Health's progress providing high quality HIV, maternal and child health, reproductive health, and family planning services and products in 2018. By December 2020, USAID DISCOVER-Health aims to have tested nearly one million Zambians for HIV, reached 700,000 people with HIV prevention interventions, provided HIV treatment to 80,000 antiretroviral therapy-naive clients,…
In 2017, the USAID Strengthening the Care Continuum Project's (the Care Continuum) in Ghana activities shifted attitudes from the focus on prevention (i.e. reaching and educating key populations [KP] on remaining HIV negative) promoted by previous USAID-funded KP projects to a focus on treatment (reach, test all, and put those who test positive onto treatment)….
To support the utilization of the existing reporting system and to get more survivors who are members of key populations to report abuses, the USAID Strengthening the Care Continuum Project developed a GBV reporting flow diagram to make it easy for both survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and service providers to report and seek redress….
Northern Penobscot County Maine received a HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Planning Grant to work as a coalition of partners to enhance substance use treatment services. The Northern Penobscot County (Maine) Integration Initiative (Network) collectively assessed the lack of local substance use services to support expanding services and strengthening the rural health care system as…
This job aid was developed to help frontline health workers in Nepal to understand the importance of the home-based record form and how to use this tool during their regular immunization activities. This tool is designed to be easy to understand for health workers who are vaccinating children as part of their regular jobs. JSI/Home-based…
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