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- Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment Implications
Community health workers have long played a critical role in preventing, detecting, and responding to pandemics across the globe. To expand, improve, and institutionalize these services, changes in the approach to bi/multilateral aid and private philanthropic investments in low- and middle-income countries are required.
- The Equity Tool for Valuing Global Health Partnerships
There is a need to more comprehensively identify and respond to equity in global health partnerships. The Equity Tool can support dialogue at any stage of a partnership, by individuals at any level. This assists partnerships to embrace ways of recognizing, understanding, and advancing equity in all their processes.
- Strategies to Promote Health System Strengthening and Global Health Security at the Subnational Level in a World Changed by COVID-19
Structural weaknesses in national health systems have led to huge variations in responses to COVID-19. This calls for a unified approach to health security and essential health services as public health threats and the expectation for health care systems to provide improved access and services at affordable cost increases.
- Human-Centered Design for Public Health Innovation: Codesigning a Multicomponent Intervention to Support Youth Across the HIV Care Continuum in Mozambique
Using a human-centered design approach, we codesigned CombinADO, an intervention to improve antiretroviral therapy adherence and retention in care among adolescents and young people living with HIV (AYAHIV) in Nampula, Mozambique. CombinADO aims to foster peer connectedness and belonging, provide accessible medical knowledge, demystify and destigmatize HIV, and cultivate a sense of hope among AYAHIV.
- Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in Kigoma, Tanzania: A 13-Year Initiative
The 13-year Program to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Tanzania employed multifaceted maternal, newborn, and reproductive health interventions that contributed to increasing the availability and utilization of high-quality obstetric and family planning services and reducing maternal and perinatal mortality in Kigoma.
- A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Kigoma, Tanzania
Efforts to increase the availability and utilization of high-quality emergency obstetric and newborn care and routine delivery care services in Kigoma were successful and subsequently contributed to significant reductions in maternal and perinatal mortality in the region.
- Funders' Perspectives on Supporting Implementation Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
We identify and discuss 7 approaches for funders to contemplate when considering support for implementation research in low- and middle-income countries.
- Scaling Up Improved Inpatient Treatment of Severe Malnutrition: Key Factors and Experiences From South Africa, Bolivia, Malawi, and Ghana
We report lessons learned in 4 countries from scaling up the implementation of World Health Organization guidelines on inpatient management of severe acute malnutrition within routine health services. We provide evidence that implementation is achievable at scale within different contexts and health systems.
- HIV Care Continuum Services for People Who Inject Drugs in Kazakhstan During COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Service Provider Perspectives
Needle and syringe programs (NSPs) in Kazakhstan have been crucial in providing care for people who inject drugs (PWID) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional supports and investments are needed to ensure that NSPs can continue to reach these marginalized populations while traditional medical systems are under strain.
- Matching Intent With Intensity: Implementation Research on the Intensity of Health and Nutrition Programs With Women's Self-Help Groups in India
Adding health interventions to women's groups primarily formed for financial purposes, such as self-help groups, is a widely used strategy to reach low-income women. An analysis of implementation intensity highlights the importance of ensuring that women's groups have sufficient time and population coverage to address health issues.