We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
This tool is intended to assess the quality of demand creation efforts in a voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program. It helps to identify strengths, gaps, challenges, and areas in need of improvement. Effective demand creation interventions are critical for increasing uptake of VMMC services, particularly among priority age groups. JSI/AIDSFree Project. 2019.
This tool takes a survivor-centered approach to gender-based violence to help providers create a supportive environment, ensure safety and dignity to promote a survivor's recovery, and reinforce the survivor's capacity to make decisions about possible interventions. The document highlights the keys to working with those who have experienced gender-based violence: safety; confidentiality; respect; nondiscrimination; and…
Though condom use is now higher than ever before, key gaps remain in countries and in certain populations, where use has stagnated or even decreased. To address these gaps, UNFPA in 2016 spearheaded the creation of the “20 by 20 Initiative,” a multisectoral effort to increase the number of condoms in low-and middle-income countries to…
This job aid is an excerpt from the publication, Strengthening Linkages Between Clinical and Social/Community Services for Children and Adolescents who Have Experienced Sexual Violence: A Companion Guide. The job aid is designed to help those involved in care and support for children and adolescents who have experienced sexual violence learn to set up a…
Prelacteal feeding is one of the major harmful newborn feeding practices and is top on the list of global public health concerns. The practice deprives newborns of valuable nutrients and protection of colostrum and exposes them to preventable morbidity and mortality. Studying the prevalence and factors influencing the prelacteal feeding practice of mothers will help…
This success story features Ko Maung Tun, a timber worker in Myawaddy who was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) by a Integrated Community Malaria Volunteer (ICMV). With the help and support of the ICMV, Ko Maung Tun was able to overcome his depression over the initial diagnosis, and continue with his treatment. After his experience with…
After implementing an electronic Logistics Management Information System (eLMIS) in Sichili Mission Hospital in Zambia in 2014, the hospital has become a model for dealing with one of the country's most persistent healthcare system challenges–expired medications. This brief explains how an eLMIS system has helped Sichili Mission Hospital reduce expired medications over the last four…
The AIDSFree Project introduced a quality improvement project at Ndwabangeni Nazarene Clinic in the Hhohho Region of Swaziland, to link HIV testing to family planning, and aiming to increase the proportion of family planning clients offered HIV testing services. After introducing the QI project, within 9 months the facility achieved 100 percent HIV testing for…
The Sustaining Health Facility Improvements (SHFI) program in Sierra Leone aimed to engage communities, health service providers, and district authorities in building better systems, structures, and processes for maintaining health facilities by mobilizing community and government resources to fund it. This booklet highlights four stories of work the health facility mangament committees (FMCs) and their…
Keeping mother-baby pairs retained in care is important so that infants receive HIV testing and can start on antiretroviral treatment if they are HIV-positive. However, in the Kingdom of Eswatini, less than half of HIV-exposed infants are retained in care long enough to receive their final HIV test at 18 months or after the end…
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