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Recognizing the challenges associated with data availability, quality, and use across the health sector, the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Liberia decided to develop a data improvement plan (DIP) to chart a more integrated approach to data improvement across the MOH’s units and departments and with its implementing partners. To create a foundation for the…
The USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project (BHC) uses a systems thinking approach to support city planners and administrators in their relationships with citizens and civil society organizations to create traceable, transparent, and collaborative policy initiatives. In support of this, the project hosted a series of workshops in Da Nang, Vietnam, designed by BHC’s partner-experts in…
Index testing has been hailed as a highly effective and efficient strategy for identifying previously undiagnosed people living with HIV. However, in highly saturated South African environments like Johannesburg, where the majority of the population has already been tested for HIV, it can be extremely challenging to identify undiagnosed clients, even when using index testing….
This document highlights MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience work in Mali, where the project aims to increase the resilience and preparedness of health systems in the regions of Gao and Timbuktu in northern Mali. The program is working with the Ministry of Health, stakeholders, and other partners to improve maternal, newborn, and child health, as well…
Since 2011, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. has implemented the Universal Immunization through Improving Family Health Services (UI-FHS) project in Ethiopia. UI-FHS strengthened the routine immunization system to reach un-immunized (zero-dose) and under-immunized children with vaccines. JSI improved equity in immunization service delivery to ensure that all children are reached with high-quality vaccination services….
This publication is a compilation of three essential guidance documents for the Pipeline Monitoring and Procurement Planning System. PipeLine 5.2 User Manual The Pipeline Monitoring and Procurement Planning System (PipeLine) was designed to help program managers monitor the status of their product pipelines and product procurement plans. PipeLine provides information needed to ensure the regular…
Strengthening data use and quality is critical to achieving high equitable immunization coverage. One approach that is being increasingly recognized as effective in improving data use and quality is data triangulation, which synthesizes two or more data sources to generate more informed decision-making for immunization program improvement. In Ethiopia, JSI, through the Universal Immunization through…
The RED-QI approach, implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) since 2011, has worked to improve the performance of the immunization system in Ethiopia. JSI’s RED-QI approach, which has focused on working at the facility and woreda (district) levels to integrate quality improvement (QI) into Reaching Every District (RED), the national immunization strategy,…
Presentation highlighting the My Village My Home Tool and Home-Based Records approach to reaching every child with immunization in Zimbabwe. 2021.
Although important global progress has been made to improve maternal health in the last two decades, an unacceptably high number of women continue to die during and following pregnancy and childbirth, including in Madagascar. The most common causes of maternal injury and death are excessive blood loss, infection, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion, and obstructed…