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March 2013 | Volume 1 | Number 1
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A

  1. Alexander, Heather

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  2. Ashengo, Tigistu Adamu

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  3. Awale, Jitendra

    1. Open Access
      Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
      Ellen A Coates, Silvio Waisbord, Jitendra Awale, Roma Solomon and Rina Dey
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):68-83; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00018

      Innovative approaches to eradicate polio in hard-to-reach areas included: (1) cadres of trusted community mobilizers who track children's immunization status, (2) responsiveness to people's concerns about immunization, (3) outreach to religious and other local leaders, (4) focus on both individual- and community-level behavioral approaches, and (5) continuous data collection and use.

  4. Awoonor-Williams, John Koku

    1. Open Access
      Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
      John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Elias Kavinah Sory, Frank K Nyonator, James F Phillips, Chen Wang and Margaret L Schmitt
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):117-133; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012

      The original CHPS model deployed nurses to the community and engaged local leaders, reducing child mortality and fertility substantially. Key scaling-up lessons: (1) place nurses in home districts but not home villages, (2) adapt uniquely to each district, (3) mobilize local resources, (4) develop a shared project vision, and (5) conduct “exchanges” so that staff who are initiating operations can observe the model working in another setting, pilot the approach locally, and expand based on lessons learned.

B

  1. Bakamjian, Lynn

    1. Open Access
      Women's growing desire to limit births in sub-Saharan Africa: meeting the challenge
      Lynn M Van Lith, Melanie Yahner and Lynn Bakamjian
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):97-107; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00036

      Contrary to conventional wisdom, many sub-Saharan African women—often at young ages—have an unmet need for family planning to limit future births, and many current limiters do not use the most effective contraceptive methods. Family planning programs must improve access to a wide range of modern contraceptive methods and address attitudinal and knowledge barriers if they are to meet women's needs.

C

  1. Castor, Delivette

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  2. Chase, Rachel P

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

  3. Chauhan, Kavita

    1. Open Access
      Meeting the community halfway to reduce maternal deaths? Evidence from a community-based maternal death review in Uttar Pradesh, India
      Sunil Saksena Raj, Deborah Maine, Pratap Kumar Sahoo, Suneedh Manthri and Kavita Chauhan
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):84-96; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00049

      Even in the face of vigorous commitment to improving maternal health services in India, inadequate staffing, supplies, and equipment at health facilities, as well as transportation costs and delays in referral, appear to contribute to a substantial proportion of maternal deaths in a representative district in Uttar Pradesh.

  4. Chersich, Matthew

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  5. Coates, Ellen A

    1. Open Access
      Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
      Ellen A Coates, Silvio Waisbord, Jitendra Awale, Roma Solomon and Rina Dey
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):68-83; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00018

      Innovative approaches to eradicate polio in hard-to-reach areas included: (1) cadres of trusted community mobilizers who track children's immunization status, (2) responsiveness to people's concerns about immunization, (3) outreach to religious and other local leaders, (4) focus on both individual- and community-level behavioral approaches, and (5) continuous data collection and use.

  6. Coggin, William L

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  7. Curran, Kelly

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

D

  1. Davis, Thomas P

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

  2. de Mendoza Lopes, Cecilia

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

  3. Dey, Rina

    1. Open Access
      Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
      Ellen A Coates, Silvio Waisbord, Jitendra Awale, Roma Solomon and Rina Dey
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):68-83; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00018

      Innovative approaches to eradicate polio in hard-to-reach areas included: (1) cadres of trusted community mobilizers who track children's immunization status, (2) responsiveness to people's concerns about immunization, (3) outreach to religious and other local leaders, (4) focus on both individual- and community-level behavioral approaches, and (5) continuous data collection and use.

F

  1. Ford, Nathan

    1. Open Access
      Can we stop AIDS with antiretroviral-based treatment as prevention?
      Edward J Mills, Jean B Nachega and Nathan Ford
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):29-34; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00053

      Challenges to scaling up treatment as prevention (TasP) of HIV transmission are considerable in the developing-world context and include accessing at-risk populations, human resource shortages, adherence and retention in care, access to newer treatments, measurement of treatment effects, and long-term sustainable funding. Optimism about ending AIDS needs to be tempered by the realities of the logistic challenges of strengthening health systems in countries most affected and by balancing TasP with overall combination prevention approaches.

G

  1. Goldman, Lynn

    1. Open Access
      Open-source collaboration for Global Health: Science and Practice
      Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Michael Klag and Lynn Goldman
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):1-2; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00012

      USAID and the Schools of Public Health at JHU and GWU welcome you to the inaugural issue of GHSP—an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for the global health community, particularly program implementers, to contribute to and benefit from a dialogue based on science and practical programmatic experience.

H

  1. Hellar, Augustino

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  2. Hernandez Avilan, Emma

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

  3. Hodgins, Steve

    1. Open Access
      Chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care: game-changer for newborn survival?
      Steve Hodgins, YV Pradhan, Leela Khanal, Shyam Upreti and Naresh Pratap KC
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):5-10; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00014

      A simple technology with potential to prevent 500,000 global neonatal deaths annually.

J

  1. Jacobstein, Roy

    1. Open Access
      Contraceptive implants: providing better choice to meet growing family planning demand
      Roy Jacobstein and Harriet Stanley
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):11-17; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00003

      Contraceptive implants are extremely effective, long acting, and suitable for nearly all women—to delay, space, or limit pregnancies—and they are increasingly popular. Now, markedly reduced prices and innovative service delivery models using dedicated non-physician service providers offer a historic opportunity to help satisfy women's growing need for family planning.

K

  1. Kalibala, Sam

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  2. Kates, Jennifer

    1. Open Access
      Global health diplomacy: advancing foreign policy and global health interests
      Josh Michaud and Jennifer Kates
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):24-28; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00048

      Attention to global health diplomacy has been rising but the future holds challenges, including a difficult budgetary environment. Going forward, both global health and foreign policy practitioners would benefit from working more closely together to achieve greater mutual understanding and to advance respective mutual goals.

  3. Khalid, Translated by Duaa

    1. Open Access
      From housewife to health worker: touching other lives and changing my own
      Interview conducted by Tahir Tarar and Translated by Duaa Khalid
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):134-135; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00038
  4. Khanal, Leela

    1. Open Access
      Chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care: game-changer for newborn survival?
      Steve Hodgins, YV Pradhan, Leela Khanal, Shyam Upreti and Naresh Pratap KC
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):5-10; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00014

      A simple technology with potential to prevent 500,000 global neonatal deaths annually.

  5. Kingola, Nzioki

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  6. Klag, Michael

    1. Open Access
      Open-source collaboration for Global Health: Science and Practice
      Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Michael Klag and Lynn Goldman
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):1-2; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00012

      USAID and the Schools of Public Health at JHU and GWU welcome you to the inaugural issue of GHSP—an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for the global health community, particularly program implementers, to contribute to and benefit from a dialogue based on science and practical programmatic experience.

  7. Küver, Jan

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

L

  1. Luchters, Stanley

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  2. Lukobo-Durell, Mainza

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  3. Luvanda, Paul James

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

M

  1. Mahler, Hally

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  2. Maine, Deborah

    1. Open Access
      Meeting the community halfway to reduce maternal deaths? Evidence from a community-based maternal death review in Uttar Pradesh, India
      Sunil Saksena Raj, Deborah Maine, Pratap Kumar Sahoo, Suneedh Manthri and Kavita Chauhan
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):84-96; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00049

      Even in the face of vigorous commitment to improving maternal health services in India, inadequate staffing, supplies, and equipment at health facilities, as well as transportation costs and delays in referral, appear to contribute to a substantial proportion of maternal deaths in a representative district in Uttar Pradesh.

  3. Mall, Sabine

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  4. Manthri, Suneedh

    1. Open Access
      Meeting the community halfway to reduce maternal deaths? Evidence from a community-based maternal death review in Uttar Pradesh, India
      Sunil Saksena Raj, Deborah Maine, Pratap Kumar Sahoo, Suneedh Manthri and Kavita Chauhan
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):84-96; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00049

      Even in the face of vigorous commitment to improving maternal health services in India, inadequate staffing, supplies, and equipment at health facilities, as well as transportation costs and delays in referral, appear to contribute to a substantial proportion of maternal deaths in a representative district in Uttar Pradesh.

  5. Michaud, Josh

    1. Open Access
      Global health diplomacy: advancing foreign policy and global health interests
      Josh Michaud and Jennifer Kates
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):24-28; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00048

      Attention to global health diplomacy has been rising but the future holds challenges, including a difficult budgetary environment. Going forward, both global health and foreign policy practitioners would benefit from working more closely together to achieve greater mutual understanding and to advance respective mutual goals.

  6. Mills, Edward J

    1. Open Access
      Can we stop AIDS with antiretroviral-based treatment as prevention?
      Edward J Mills, Jean B Nachega and Nathan Ford
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):29-34; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00053

      Challenges to scaling up treatment as prevention (TasP) of HIV transmission are considerable in the developing-world context and include accessing at-risk populations, human resource shortages, adherence and retention in care, access to newer treatments, measurement of treatment effects, and long-term sustainable funding. Optimism about ending AIDS needs to be tempered by the realities of the logistic challenges of strengthening health systems in countries most affected and by balancing TasP with overall combination prevention approaches.

  7. Mpuya, Ezekiel

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  8. Mukadi, YaDiul

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  9. Musenge, Eustasius

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  10. Mziray, Hawa

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

N

  1. Nachega, Jean B

    1. Open Access
      Can we stop AIDS with antiretroviral-based treatment as prevention?
      Edward J Mills, Jean B Nachega and Nathan Ford
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):29-34; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00053

      Challenges to scaling up treatment as prevention (TasP) of HIV transmission are considerable in the developing-world context and include accessing at-risk populations, human resource shortages, adherence and retention in care, access to newer treatments, measurement of treatment effects, and long-term sustainable funding. Optimism about ending AIDS needs to be tempered by the realities of the logistic challenges of strengthening health systems in countries most affected and by balancing TasP with overall combination prevention approaches.

  2. Nyonator, Frank K

    1. Open Access
      Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
      John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Elias Kavinah Sory, Frank K Nyonator, James F Phillips, Chen Wang and Margaret L Schmitt
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):117-133; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012

      The original CHPS model deployed nurses to the community and engaged local leaders, reducing child mortality and fertility substantially. Key scaling-up lessons: (1) place nurses in home districts but not home villages, (2) adapt uniquely to each district, (3) mobilize local resources, (4) develop a shared project vision, and (5) conduct “exchanges” so that staff who are initiating operations can observe the model working in another setting, pilot the approach locally, and expand based on lessons learned.

O

  1. Okal, Jerry

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

P

  1. Pablos-Méndez, Ariel

    1. Open Access
      Open-source collaboration for Global Health: Science and Practice
      Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Michael Klag and Lynn Goldman
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):1-2; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00012

      USAID and the Schools of Public Health at JHU and GWU welcome you to the inaugural issue of GHSP—an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for the global health community, particularly program implementers, to contribute to and benefit from a dialogue based on science and practical programmatic experience.

  2. Perry, Henry B

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

  3. Phillips, James F

    1. Open Access
      Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
      John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Elias Kavinah Sory, Frank K Nyonator, James F Phillips, Chen Wang and Margaret L Schmitt
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):117-133; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012

      The original CHPS model deployed nurses to the community and engaged local leaders, reducing child mortality and fertility substantially. Key scaling-up lessons: (1) place nurses in home districts but not home villages, (2) adapt uniquely to each district, (3) mobilize local resources, (4) develop a shared project vision, and (5) conduct “exchanges” so that staff who are initiating operations can observe the model working in another setting, pilot the approach locally, and expand based on lessons learned.

  4. Piatek, Amy S

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  5. Plotkin, Marya

    1. Open Access
      “Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania
      Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037

      In a study in Tanzania, men and women generally supported male circumcision; however, cultural values that the procedure is most appropriate before adolescence, shame associated with being circumcised at an older age, and concerns about the post-surgical abstinence period have led to low uptake among older men.

  6. Pradhan, YV

    1. Open Access
      Chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care: game-changer for newborn survival?
      Steve Hodgins, YV Pradhan, Leela Khanal, Shyam Upreti and Naresh Pratap KC
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):5-10; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00014

      A simple technology with potential to prevent 500,000 global neonatal deaths annually.

  7. Pratap KC, Naresh

    1. Open Access
      Chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care: game-changer for newborn survival?
      Steve Hodgins, YV Pradhan, Leela Khanal, Shyam Upreti and Naresh Pratap KC
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):5-10; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00014

      A simple technology with potential to prevent 500,000 global neonatal deaths annually.

R

  1. Raj, Sunil Saksena

    1. Open Access
      Meeting the community halfway to reduce maternal deaths? Evidence from a community-based maternal death review in Uttar Pradesh, India
      Sunil Saksena Raj, Deborah Maine, Pratap Kumar Sahoo, Suneedh Manthri and Kavita Chauhan
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):84-96; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00049

      Even in the face of vigorous commitment to improving maternal health services in India, inadequate staffing, supplies, and equipment at health facilities, as well as transportation costs and delays in referral, appear to contribute to a substantial proportion of maternal deaths in a representative district in Uttar Pradesh.

  2. Rehr, Manuela

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

S

  1. Sahoo, Pratap Kumar

    1. Open Access
      Meeting the community halfway to reduce maternal deaths? Evidence from a community-based maternal death review in Uttar Pradesh, India
      Sunil Saksena Raj, Deborah Maine, Pratap Kumar Sahoo, Suneedh Manthri and Kavita Chauhan
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):84-96; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00049

      Even in the face of vigorous commitment to improving maternal health services in India, inadequate staffing, supplies, and equipment at health facilities, as well as transportation costs and delays in referral, appear to contribute to a substantial proportion of maternal deaths in a representative district in Uttar Pradesh.

  2. Sarna, Avina

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

  3. Schmitt, Margaret L

    1. Open Access
      Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
      John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Elias Kavinah Sory, Frank K Nyonator, James F Phillips, Chen Wang and Margaret L Schmitt
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):117-133; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012

      The original CHPS model deployed nurses to the community and engaged local leaders, reducing child mortality and fertility substantially. Key scaling-up lessons: (1) place nurses in home districts but not home villages, (2) adapt uniquely to each district, (3) mobilize local resources, (4) develop a shared project vision, and (5) conduct “exchanges” so that staff who are initiating operations can observe the model working in another setting, pilot the approach locally, and expand based on lessons learned.

  4. Shelton, James D

    1. Open Access
      A journal for global health programming
      James D Shelton and Ronald J Waldman
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):3-4; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00001

      GHSP aims to improve how programs function at scale, targeting implementers who actually support and carry out programs across all of global health. Thus, we emphasize specific implementation details, using a crisp, accessible, interactive style.

  5. Shinnick, Thomas M

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  6. Solomon, Roma

    1. Open Access
      Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
      Ellen A Coates, Silvio Waisbord, Jitendra Awale, Roma Solomon and Rina Dey
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):68-83; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00018

      Innovative approaches to eradicate polio in hard-to-reach areas included: (1) cadres of trusted community mobilizers who track children's immunization status, (2) responsiveness to people's concerns about immunization, (3) outreach to religious and other local leaders, (4) focus on both individual- and community-level behavioral approaches, and (5) continuous data collection and use.

  7. Sory, Elias Kavinah

    1. Open Access
      Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
      John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Elias Kavinah Sory, Frank K Nyonator, James F Phillips, Chen Wang and Margaret L Schmitt
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):117-133; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012

      The original CHPS model deployed nurses to the community and engaged local leaders, reducing child mortality and fertility substantially. Key scaling-up lessons: (1) place nurses in home districts but not home villages, (2) adapt uniquely to each district, (3) mobilize local resources, (4) develop a shared project vision, and (5) conduct “exchanges” so that staff who are initiating operations can observe the model working in another setting, pilot the approach locally, and expand based on lessons learned.

  8. Stanley, Harriet

    1. Open Access
      Contraceptive implants: providing better choice to meet growing family planning demand
      Roy Jacobstein and Harriet Stanley
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):11-17; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00003

      Contraceptive implants are extremely effective, long acting, and suitable for nearly all women—to delay, space, or limit pregnancies—and they are increasingly popular. Now, markedly reduced prices and innovative service delivery models using dedicated non-physician service providers offer a historic opportunity to help satisfy women's growing need for family planning.

T

  1. Tarar, Interview conducted by Tahir

    1. Open Access
      From housewife to health worker: touching other lives and changing my own
      Interview conducted by Tahir Tarar and Translated by Duaa Khalid
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):134-135; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00038
  2. Tun, Waimar

    1. Open Access
      Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
      Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki Kingola and Sam Kalibala
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):52-67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00023

      In Mombasa, Kenya, a community-based HIV risk-reduction intervention effectively reached people living with HIV who were not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART)—a difficult-to-reach population because they often fall outside the ambit of health care services—and succeeded in reducing reported risky sex behavior and increasing ART uptake.

U

  1. Upreti, Shyam

    1. Open Access
      Chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care: game-changer for newborn survival?
      Steve Hodgins, YV Pradhan, Leela Khanal, Shyam Upreti and Naresh Pratap KC
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):5-10; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00014

      A simple technology with potential to prevent 500,000 global neonatal deaths annually.

V

  1. Van Cleeff, Maarten

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  2. Van Kampen, Sanne

    1. Open Access
      GeneXpert for TB diagnosis: planned and purposeful implementation
      Amy S Piatek, Maarten Van Cleeff, Heather Alexander, William L Coggin, Manuela Rehr, Sanne Van Kampen, Thomas M Shinnick and YaDiul Mukadi
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):18-23; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00004

      Xpert MTB/RIF is a major advance for TB diagnostics, especially for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV-associated TB. But implementation concerns including cost, technical support requirements, and challenging demands of providing second-line TB drugs for diagnosed MDR-TB cases call for gradual, careful introduction based on country circumstances.

  3. Van Lith, Lynn M

    1. Open Access
      Women's growing desire to limit births in sub-Saharan Africa: meeting the challenge
      Lynn M Van Lith, Melanie Yahner and Lynn Bakamjian
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):97-107; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00036

      Contrary to conventional wisdom, many sub-Saharan African women—often at young ages—have an unmet need for family planning to limit future births, and many current limiters do not use the most effective contraceptive methods. Family planning programs must improve access to a wide range of modern contraceptive methods and address attitudinal and knowledge barriers if they are to meet women's needs.

W

  1. Waisbord, Silvio

    1. Open Access
      Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
      Ellen A Coates, Silvio Waisbord, Jitendra Awale, Roma Solomon and Rina Dey
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):68-83; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00018

      Innovative approaches to eradicate polio in hard-to-reach areas included: (1) cadres of trusted community mobilizers who track children's immunization status, (2) responsiveness to people's concerns about immunization, (3) outreach to religious and other local leaders, (4) focus on both individual- and community-level behavioral approaches, and (5) continuous data collection and use.

  2. Waldman, Ronald J

    1. Open Access
      A journal for global health programming
      James D Shelton and Ronald J Waldman
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):3-4; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00001

      GHSP aims to improve how programs function at scale, targeting implementers who actually support and carry out programs across all of global health. Thus, we emphasize specific implementation details, using a crisp, accessible, interactive style.

  3. Wang, Chen

    1. Open Access
      Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
      John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Elias Kavinah Sory, Frank K Nyonator, James F Phillips, Chen Wang and Margaret L Schmitt
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):117-133; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012

      The original CHPS model deployed nurses to the community and engaged local leaders, reducing child mortality and fertility substantially. Key scaling-up lessons: (1) place nurses in home districts but not home villages, (2) adapt uniquely to each district, (3) mobilize local resources, (4) develop a shared project vision, and (5) conduct “exchanges” so that staff who are initiating operations can observe the model working in another setting, pilot the approach locally, and expand based on lessons learned.

  4. Wetzel, Carolyn

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

  5. Winch, Peter J

    1. Open Access
      Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
      Thomas P Davis, Carolyn Wetzel, Emma Hernandez Avilan, Cecilia de Mendoza Lopes, Rachel P Chase, Peter J Winch and Henry B Perry
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):35-51; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00045

      Care Group peer-to-peer behavior change communication improved child undernutrition at scale in rural Mozambique and has the potential to substantially reduce under-5 mortality in priority countries at very low cost.

Y

  1. Yahner, Melanie

    1. Open Access
      Women's growing desire to limit births in sub-Saharan Africa: meeting the challenge
      Lynn M Van Lith, Melanie Yahner and Lynn Bakamjian
      Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):97-107; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00036

      Contrary to conventional wisdom, many sub-Saharan African women—often at young ages—have an unmet need for family planning to limit future births, and many current limiters do not use the most effective contraceptive methods. Family planning programs must improve access to a wide range of modern contraceptive methods and address attitudinal and knowledge barriers if they are to meet women's needs.

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March 01, 2013
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