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Table of Contents

February 2022 | Volume 10 | Number 1

EDITORIALS

  • Open Access
    Let’s Make Life Easier for Health Workers, Not More Complicated
    Stephen Hodgins
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2200020; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00020
  • Open Access
    COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
    Doug Storey
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2200043; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00043

    Improving access to accurate information on vaccines and vaccination, increasing trust in reliable information sources, and counteracting misinformation can go a long way toward improving vaccination decision making.

COMMENTARIES

  • Open Access
    Language and Measurement of Contraceptive Need and Making These Indicators More Meaningful for Measuring Fertility Intentions of Women and Girls
    Ilene S. Speizer, Jason Bremner and Shiza Farid FP2020 Performance, Monitoring, and Evidence Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100450; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00450

    We examine current “need”-based family planning measures that are based on women’s fertility desires and contraceptive use, identify challenges with language and use of need-based measures, and recommend ways to improve language and measurement.

  • Open Access
    What Do We Demand? Responding to the Call for Precision and Definitional Agreement in Family Planning’s “Demand” and “Need” Jargon
    Madeleine Short Fabic
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2200030; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00030

    This commentary offers a response to the call to improve family planning language that describes “need” and “demand” and proposes a set of recommendations to add precision, improve measurement, and foster shared understanding in family planning.

  • Open Access
    Maintaining Polio-Free Status in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Luthfi Azizatunnisa’, Utsamani Cintyamena, Vinod Bura, Asik Surya, Hariadi Wibisono, Riris Andono Ahmad and Yodi Mahendradhata
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100310; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00310

    Despite the negative impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on polio eradication efforts, ensuring the high coverage of polio immunization and high performance of surveillance are essential to maintaining Indonesia’s polio-free status and the reaching the 2023 global polio eradication target.

  • Open Access
    Three Pivots for Improving Health Care Provider Performance
    Julia Bluestone, Erica Troncoso, Laura Fitzgerald, Lauretta Nagbe, Gladys Tetteh, Augustino Hellar and Edwin Ernest
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100625; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00625

    We share recommendations on 3 important pivots away from longstanding approaches to continued professional development and in-service training programs that have demonstrated a measurable benefit across a diversity of health-related applications and projects.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  • Open Access
    Examining Masculinities to Inform Gender-Transformative Violence Prevention Programs: Qualitative Findings From Rakai, Uganda
    Eunhee Park, Samuel Jason Wolfe, Fred Nalugoda, Lindsay Stark, Neema Nakyanjo, William Ddaaki, Charles Ssekyewa and Jennifer A. Wagman
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100137; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00137

    While the majority of men in rural Uganda upheld 2 conflicting masculine norms that are conceptualized as reputation (“cool man”) and respectability (“responsible man”), men in younger age groups who participated in a gender-transformative program expressed gender-equitable beliefs and attitudes.

  • Open Access
    Global Research Priorities for Understanding and Improving Respectful Care for Newborns: A Modified Delphi Study
    Hagar Palgi Hacker, Elena Ateva, R. Rima Jolivet, Bushra Al-makaleh, Theresa Shaver and Emma Sacks
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100292; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00292

    To inform the developing research field of respectful care, we identified global research questions that are specific to respectful newborn care. The top descriptive, implementation, and measurement questions focused primarily on defining, promoting, measuring, and advocating for respectful care.

  • Open Access
    Introducing Long-Acting Contraceptive Removal Indicators in a Pilot Study in Mozambique: Dynamics of Discontinuation and Implications for Quality of Care
    Ana Jacinto, Adalgisa Viola Ronda, Connie Lee, Fariyal F. Fikree and Eric Ramirez-Ferrero
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100252; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00252

    Tracking information about long-acting reversible contraceptive removals in the national health management information system is feasible and useful for improving the quality of family planning services in Mozambique.

  • Open Access
    Extending Delivery of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention to Children Aged 5–10 Years in Chad: A Mixed-Methods Study
    Azoukalné Moukénet, Laura Donovan, Beakgoubé Honoré, Kevin Baker, Helen Smith, Sol Richardson and Charlotte Ward
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100161; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00161

    We sought to understand perceptions of the feasibility and acceptability of extending seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to children aged 5–10 years and explore reasons why SMC is administered to children aged 5–10 years in the current program.

  • Open Access
    Design and Implementation of the Amenah Early Marriage Pilot Intervention Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
    Maia Sieverding, Dima Bteddini, Rima Mourtada, Lama Al Ayoubi, Ola Hassan, Aya Ahmad, Jocelyn DeJong and Sawsan Abdulrahim
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100079; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00079

    We document the design, implementation, and evaluation of an early marriage intervention among Syrian refugee adolescents in Lebanon and describe the adaptations made to address a range of factors related to the vulnerability and mobility of the refugee population.

  • Open Access
    Role of Information Sources in Vaccination Uptake: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Household Survey in Sierra Leone, 2019
    Shibani Kulkarni, Paul Sengeh, Victor Eboh, Mohammad B. Jalloh, Lansana Conteh, Tom Sesay, Ngobeh Ibrahim, Pa Ousman Manneh, Reinhard Kaiser, Yuka Jinnai, Aaron S. Wallace, Dimitri Prybylski and Mohamed F. Jalloh
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100237; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00237

    Our findings suggest that health workers and faith leaders are important sources of information to deliver vaccination messages, given their strong association with vaccination confidence and uptake. In this context, vaccination promotion efforts that integrate faith leaders and health workers may help increase vaccination uptake.

  • Open Access
    Findings and Implications From an Evaluation of the Gold Star Campaign in Post-Ebola Guinea: The Role of Gender and Education
    Tilly Gurman, Darriel Harris and Sidikiba Sidibé
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100427; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00427

    During public health crises, such as an Ebola epidemic, people may lose trust in local health facilities. Short-duration mass media campaigns can improve attitudes about the quality of health facilities for men and women and can play an important role in encouraging future health service utilization.

  • Open Access
    The Salience of Trust to the Client-Provider Relationship in Post-Ebola Guinea: Findings From a Qualitative Study
    Natalie Tibbels, Zoé Hendrickson, Hannah Mills, Sidikiba Sidibé, Claudia Vondrasek and Tilly Gurman
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100429; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00429

    This qualitative study in post-Ebola Guinea showed that trust was a salient construct for clients making health care-seeking decisions in a postemergency setting. This analysis argues for global health programs to build trust between clients and the health system by addressing underlying domains of trust as defined by the clients themselves.

  • Open Access
    Implementation of HIV Retesting During Pregnancy and Postpartum in Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study
    Monalisa Penumetsa, Jillian Neary, Shiza Farid, Peninah Kithao, Barbra A. Richardson, Daniel Matemo, Grace John-Stewart, John Kinuthia and Alison L. Drake
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100451; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00451

    Strategies are needed to prevent missed opportunities to detect women with incident HIV infection during pregnancy or postpartum and maximize prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission efforts.

  • Open Access
    A New Contraceptive Diaphragm in Niamey, Niger: A Mixed Methods Study on Acceptability, Use, and Programmatic Considerations
    Ashley Jackson, Alexandra Angel, Abdoul-Razak Mahamadou Bagourmé, Moumouni Boubacar, Aminata Maazou, Harou Issoufa and Paul Bouanchaud
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100532; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00532

    Through a pilot introduction in Niamey, Niger, we found that expanding method options to include the Caya diaphragm, a new self-care contraceptive product without side effects for most users, may address some of the challenges that contribute to very low contraceptive use.

  • Open Access
    What Distinguishes Women Who Choose to Self-Inject? A Prospective Cohort Study of Subcutaneous Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Users in Ghana
    Dela Nai, Elizabeth Tobey, Kamil Fuseini, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye and Aparna Jain
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100534; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00534

    Family planning projects and programs seeking to introduce, scale up, or market subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate self-injection should first focus efforts on new family planning users, those never married, and those with at least a high school education level.

  • Open Access
    Lessons Learned From the Use of the Most Significant Change Technique for Adaptive Management of Complex Health Interventions
    Saori Ohkubo, Lisa Mwaikambo, Ruwaida M. Salem, Lekan Ajijola, Paul Nyachae and Mukesh Kumar Sharma
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100624; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00624

    The Most Significant Change technique used in monitoring and evaluation has facilitated learning about the project scale-up and adaptive management of evidence-based family planning interventions across diverse project stakeholders in 11 countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

FIELD ACTION REPORTS

  • Open Access
    Uptake and Short-Term Retention in HIV Treatment Among Men in South Africa: The Coach Mpilo Pilot Project
    Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, Morna Cornell, Shawn Malone, Paris Pitsillides, Kristen Little and Nina Hasen
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100498; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00498

    In this pilot project, providing peer support to men living with HIV retained a high proportion of men living with HIV in the early stages of HIV treatment and successfully supported men in returning to care after a treatment interruption.

  • Open Access
    Key Factors Influencing Use of Immunization Cost Evidence in Country Planning and Budgeting Processes: Experiences From Indonesia, Tanzania, and Vietnam
    Annette Ozaltin, Kelsey Vaughan, Kassimu Tani, Fatuma Manzi, Vu Quynh Mai, Hoang Van Minh, Soewarta Kosen, Lora Shimp, Logan Brenzel and Laura Boonstoppel
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100264; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00264

    The evidence to policy and practice facilitated process represents a journey that countries and their development partners can embark on to increase the likelihood that health policy makers will use cost evidence for policy making and planning.

  • Open Access
    Mother-Baby Friendly Philippines: Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Compliance to the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
    Kate Reinsma, Alfred Jose C. Ballesteros, Rene Andrew A. Bucu, Teddy S. Dizon, Nathan John U. Jumalon, Lorelane C. Ramirez, Czarina Anne A. Villareiz, Carleneth San Valentin and Maria Rosario S. Vergeire
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100071; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00071

    Citizen reporting has the potential to improve compliance with the International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes. However, any investments made on improving citizen and reporting platforms must be matched with similar investments in streamlining government processes, transparency, and confidence-building across all stakeholders.

  • Open Access
    Discovery of a Hidden Schistosomiasis Endemic in the Salamat Region of Chad, Africa
    Timothy Visclosky, Andrew Hashikawa and Eric Kroner
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2000703; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00703

    A mobile medical team used numerous time- and cost-saving techniques to provide therapeutic and preventive chemotherapy to nearly 12,000 patients while uncovering a hidden urogenital schistosomiasis endemic in the Salamat Region of Chad, Africa.

  • Open Access
    COVID-19 Testing Crisis Management Through a Public-Private Partnership in Sindh, Pakistan
    Saba Jamal, Javeria Aijaz, Najam Shah, Fouzia Naseer, Maimoona Khan, Muzaffar Ali Odho and Abdul Bari Khan
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100308; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00308

    Building upon an existing public-private partnership enabled the rapid and effective implementation of province-wide COVID-19 testing in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

REVIEWS

  • Open Access
    Implementation Approaches for Introducing and Overcoming Barriers to Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa
    Alix Boisson, Varun Goel, Marcel Yotebieng, Jonathan B. Parr, Bruce Fried and Peyton Thompson
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100277; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00277

    We discuss determinants of hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine uptake in sub-Saharan Africa countries at the policy, facility, and community levels and propose solutions to known barriers of hepatitis B vaccine introduction in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Open Access
    A Narrative Review of Kenya’s Surgical Capacity Using the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s Indicator Framework
    Hugh Shirley and Richard Wamai
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100500; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00500

    Limited progress has been made on the expansion of access to surgical care in Kenya as assessed with the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s indicator framework, underscoring the need for a national surgery, obstetrics, and anesthesia plan.

METHODOLOGIES

  • Open Access
    Transitioning to Digital Systems: The Role of World Health Organization’s Digital Adaptation Kits in Operationalizing Recommendations and Interoperability Standards
    Tigest Tamrat, Natschja Ratanaprayul, Maria Barreix, Özge Tunçalp, David Lowrance, Jenny Thompson, Leona Rosenblum, Nancy Kidula, Ram Chahar, Mary E. Gaffield, Mario Festin, James Kiarie, Brian Taliesin, Carl Leitner, Sylvia Wong, Teodora Wi, Hillary Kipruto, Ayotunde Adegboyega, Derrick Muneene, Lale Say and Garrett Mehl
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100320; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00320

    The World Health Organization (WHO) digital adaptation kits distill WHO guidance into a standardized format that can be more easily incorporated into digital systems and facilitate communication between the health workforce and technologists to enable a shared understanding of the underlying content.

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  • What Distinguishes Women Who Choose to Self-Inject? A Prospective Cohort Study of Subcutaneous Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Users in Ghana
  • Extending Delivery of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention to Children Aged 5–10 Years in Chad: A Mixed-Methods Study
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