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Over the past four decades, JSI has helped more than 80 countries build and maintain strong health systems that are capable of delivering life-saving services and products to women, children, and adolescents, whenever and wherever they need them. A decade ago, JSI pledged to support progress toward the Millennium Development Goals through a 2011–2014 commitment…
Multi-sector collaboratives (MSCs) are a promising strategy for moving the needle on high-priority health and equity issues. However, given their breadth and long-term prevention orientation, these collaboratives often struggle to demonstrate their potential cost-effectiveness, return-on-investment, and/or non-financial impacts. This guide presents real-world examples and a simplified set of valuation tools and processes that MSCs can…
Despite a power surplus in Uganda, the Lango sub-region in Northern Uganda suffers frequent electricity outages, which affect most of the districts in the sub-region. As a result, much of the laboratory equipment at health facilities are non-functional, leading to expensive repairs, high error rates during GeneXpert testing, long turnaround times for test results, and…
Lango is one of the regions with the highest prevalence of Tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda. The number of drug resistant TB (DR-TB) cases has significantly increased from 13 to 16 cases between October to December 2018 compared to the same period in 2020, respectively. The USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services- North Lango project supports…
The USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services- North Lango project supports high-impact facility and community interventions to prevent, detect, treat, and cure tuberculosis (TB). The project focuses on TB case finding; prevention and treatment of both susceptible and drug-resistant TB cases in adults and children; finding missing cases, targeting men to get tested (national and…
This brochure provides an overview of JSI’s approach to promoting health across the life course, key strategies for achieving equitable and sustainable outcomes, and a description of the services we provide.
Leadership, management, and governance (LMG) interventions play a significant role in improving management systems, enhancing work climate, and creating responsive health systems. The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health with the support of the USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity has been cascading basic LMG training and interventions to primary health care staff. The results…
Strong supply chain management is needed to save lives and continue to deliver crucial health services and life-saving supplies. The Supply Chain Manager’s Handbook generally refers to supply chain management in support of stable health services, but managers can benefit by learning common best practices in humanitarian and emergency response contexts. Additionally, many concepts are…
With support from Blue Shield of California Foundation, through an Exploring the Value of Prevention grant, JSI Research & Training and Minga Analytics set out to develop and test feasible and accessible valuation methods and tools with multi-sector collaborative partners in California. We selected a set of partners who reflected diversity in terms of geography,…
This country case study captures experiences and lessons learned in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening (RTA) project, particularly focusing on the co-creation process and its outputs. Co-creation emphasizes collective creativity and collaborative design; its results are quickly integrated…