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    Using Community Health Workers and a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala
    Sean Duffy, Derek Norton, Mark Kelly, Alejandro Chavez, Rafael Tun, Mariana Niño de Guzmán Ramírez, Guanhua Chen, Paul Wise and Jim Svenson
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):699-720; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00076

    A smartphone application providing algorithmic clinical decision support enabled community health workers to improve diabetes control for a group of patients in rural Guatemala. This approach enables task sharing with physicians and other advanced practitioners for chronic disease care, which is particularly important in low-resource settings.

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    Lessons Learned From Implementing Prospective, Multicountry Mixed-Methods Evaluations for Gavi and the Global Fund
    Emily Carnahan, Nikki Gurley, Gilbert Asiimwe, Baltazar Chilundo, Herbert C. Duber, Adama Faye, Carol Kamya, Godefroid Mpanya, Shakilah Nagasha, David Phillips, Nicole Salisbury, Jessica Shearer and Katharine Shelley for the Gavi Full Country Evaluations Consortium; and Global Fund Prospective Country Evaluation Consortium
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):771-782; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00126

    Lessons learned from implementing evaluations for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria can help inform the design and implementation of ongoing or future evaluations of complex interventions. We share 5 lessons distilled from over 7 years of experience implementing evaluations in 7 countries.

  • Open Access
    Prevention of COVID-19 in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in War-Torn North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Study
    Kasereka M. Claude, Muyisa Sahika Serge, Kahindo Kahatane Alexis and Michael T. Hawkes
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):638-653; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00272

    Internally displaced persons fleeing violent conflict represent a neglected population with heightened vulnerability to pandemic COVID-19. We provide a rare snapshot of the overwhelming challenges faced by internally displaced persons in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as they brace for COVID-19.

  • Open Access
    Breaking Specialty Silos: Improving Global Child Health Through Essential Surgical Care
    Isaac Wasserman, Alexander W. Peters, Lina Roa, Farhana Amanullah and Lubna Samad
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):183-189; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00009

    Children’s health care providers and children’s surgery providers can partner to improve children’s health by developing the surgical workforce, focusing on “best buy” surgeries, integrating children’s surgery into national plans, streamlining data collection and research, and leveraging financing.

  • Open Access
    Go Where the Virus Is: An HIV Micro-epidemic Control Approach to Stop HIV Transmission
    Michael M. Cassell, Rose Wilcher, Reshmie A. Ramautarsing, Nittaya Phanuphak and Timothy D. Mastro
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):614-625; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00418

    Essentially all HIV transmission is from people living with HIV who are not virally suppressed. An HIV micro-epidemic control approach that differentiates treatment support and prevention services for people living with HIV and their network members according to viral burden could optimize the impact of epidemic control efforts.

  • Open Access
    Contraceptive Method Mix: Updates and Implications
    Jane T. Bertrand, John Ross, Tara M. Sullivan, Karen Hardee and James D. Shelton
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):666-679; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00229

    Trends in contraceptive method mix show that dominance of 1 method in the mix remains very common, though countries and regions throughout the world are diverse as to which method is dominant. Our analysis argues for continued concerted efforts of programs to increase contraceptive method choice.

  • Open Access
    Implementing the Clean Clinic Approach Improves Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Quality in Health Facilities in the Western Highlands of Guatemala
    Jason Lopez, Sergio Tumax Sierra, Ana María Rodas Cardona and Stephen Sara
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):256-269; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00413

    A water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) intervention implemented in a short period in health care facilities with limited resources achieved improvements in health care facility infection prevention readiness.

  • Open Access
    Integrating Calcium Into Antenatal Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation in Ethiopia: Women’s Experiences, Perceptions of Acceptability, and Strategies to Support Calcium Supplement Adherence
    Gina C. Klemm, Zewdie Birhanu, Stephanie E. Ortolano, Yohannes Kebede, Stephanie L. Martin, Girma Mamo and Katherine L. Dickin
    Global Health: Science and Practice October 2020, 8(3):413-430; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00008

    In household trials of improved practices, rural Ethiopian women were motivated to adhere to antenatal calcium supplementation regimens, and tailored home-based strategies helped them overcome barriers such as regimen complexity, forgetfulness, side effects, and discouragement from others.

  • Open Access
    Capturing Acquired Wisdom, Enabling Healthful Aging, and Building Multinational Partnerships Through Senior Global Health Mentorship
    C. Norman Coleman, John E. Wong, Eugenia Wendling, Mary Gospodarowicz, Donna O’Brien, Taofeeq Abdallah Ige, Simeon Chinedu Aruah, David A. Pistenmaa, Ugo Amaldi, Onyi-Onyinye Balogun, Harmar D. Brereton, Silvia Formenti, Kristen Schroeder, Nelson Chao, Surbhi Grover, Stephen M. Hahn, James Metz, Lawrence Roth and Manjit Dosanjh
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):626-637; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00108

    The undeniable benefit of mentorship by experience senior mentors can meaningfully increase the breadth of their experience and contributions to society as well as address the dire inequality in global health. This model captures wisdom lost to retirement, enables opportunities for purposeful lifespan, underpins sustainable health care systems, and has the potential for building multinational partnerships.

  • Open Access
    Private Providers’ Experiences Implementing a Package of Interventions to Improve Quality of Care in Kenya: Findings From a Qualitative Evaluation
    Masila Syengo and Lauren Suchman
    Global Health: Science and Practice October 2020, 8(3):478-487; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00034

    Although private providers felt that social franchising, quality improvement interventions, and accreditation helped them to increase the quantity and quality of services in their facilities, the quality improvement process was viewed as prohibitively expensive, and the accreditation process often was complex and difficult to navigate without outside assistance.

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