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VIEWPOINT
- At-Risk Newborns: Overlooked in Expansion From Essential Newborn Care to Small and Sick Newborn Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
We propose adding the category of “at-risk” newborns for babies who are at increased risk of morbidity and/or mortality but do not require special or intensive care or monitoring to promote a 3-tiered newborn care approach in hospitals.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
- Applying the COM-B Model to Understand the Drivers of Mistreatment During Childbirth: A Qualitative Enquiry Among Maternity Care Staff
The promotion of respectful maternity care requires addressing the drivers of mistreatment and strengthening the capacity of maternity care staff to provide respectful and rights-based maternity care.
- The Burden of Motorcycle Crash Injuries on the Public Health System in Kisumu City, Kenya
Reliable estimates of motorcycle-related injuries and hospitalization, as well as their impact on the health system, are needed for evidence-based policymaking, advocacy, and priority-setting for appropriate and effective interventions, resource mobilization, and future research.
- Perspectives of Muslim Religious Leaders to Shape an Educational Intervention About Family Planning in Rural Tanzania: A Qualitative Study
Designing an educational intervention that engages male and female Muslim religious leaders and addresses gaps in knowledge on all contraceptive methods is a promising strategy for increasing family planning uptake in rural Tanzania.
- Nongovernmental Organization Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Challenges and Solutions to Changing Handwashing Behavior in Older Children: A Qualitative Study
We explore the challenges to handwashing interventions targeting older children and recommended solutions from nongovernmental organization practitioners’ perspectives involved in the design, coordination, implementation, or evaluation of child-targeted HWWS interventions.
- Timely Access to Essential Surgery, Surgical Workforce, and Surgical Volume: Global Surgery Indicators in Mexico
Our analysis of the 2020 national census data shows that while the majority of the Mexican population has timely access to essential surgery services, policy changes are needed to facilitate more equitable access to these services across the entire population.
- Demand Forecasting Approaches for New Contraceptive Technologies: A Landscape Review and Recommendations for Alignment
We describe the variety of approaches for modeling demand for new contraceptive methods, highlight opportunities for alignment around forecasting practices, and make recommendations to support more accurate forecasting and sound decision-making based on forecasts.
- Scale-Up of a Newborn Resuscitation Capacity-Building and Skill Retention Program Associated With Improved Neonatal Outcomes in Gandaki Province, Nepal
A program in Nepal based on the Helping Babies Breathe training curriculum successfully scaled up newborn resuscitation training and skill retention and could serve as an evidence-based model in other resource-constrained settings.
- Down But Not Out: Vasectomy Is Faring Poorly Almost Everywhere—We Can Do Better To Make It A True Method Option
Contraceptive use worldwide increased by 188 million users in the past 20 years. Yet the number of vasectomy users fell by 27 million, a 61% decline. Almost all LMICs report negligible vasectomy use. We can do better to make it an accessible rights-based option.
FIELD ACTION REPORTS
- Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons Learned During Implementation of a Remote Monitoring Program for Home-Isolated COVID-19 Patients in Chennai, India
We describe the lessons learned from developing and implementing a remote monitoring program for home-isolated COVID patients in a limited-resource setting.
- The Quality Management Improvement Approach: Successes and Lessons Learned From a Workforce Development Intervention in Rwanda’s Health Supply Chain
A workforce development intervention called the Quality Management Improvement Approach has proven to be a successful training and capacity-building platform for supply chain management, improving end-to-end data visibility and communication.
- Design, Development, and Deployment of an Electronic Immunization Registry: Experiences From Vietnam, Tanzania, and Zambia
We compare experiences implementing electronic immunization registries across countries to highlight findings and recommendations related to time, partnerships, financial costs, and technology and infrastructure.
PROGRAM CASE STUDIES
- A Field Test of the NORMAL Job Aid With Community Health Workers in Kenya to Address Contraceptive-Induced Menstrual Changes
A job aid for counseling clients on contraceptive-induced menstrual changes shows potential to improve counseling effectiveness, clients’ uptake, and continued use of hormonal contraceptive methods and the copper intrauterine device.
- Expanding Access to Oral Preexposure Prophylaxis for People Who Inject Drugs in Bayelsa and Niger States, Nigeria
Optimizing the impact of oral preexposure prophylaxis HIV interventions for people who inject drugs requires increasing access to services through different service delivery models and creating an environment where community members feel safe and motivated to access services.
- Applying Human-Centered Design in Global Mental Health to Improve Reach Among Underserved Populations in the United States and India
We demonstrate how 2 global mental health research programs engaged end users to design tailored, culturally informed digital tools used to support the delivery of evidence-based interventions.
REVIEW
- Community Health Workers as Vaccinators: A Rapid Review of the Global Landscape, 2000–2021
This review identifies countries where community health workers administered vaccines and synthesizes health systems factors that may contribute to or detract from the feasibility of community health workers administering vaccines to alleviate health workforce shortages.
COMMENTARIES
Given increasing rates of visual impairment worldwide, we call on national health plans and global development agencies to urgently focus funding and resources toward vision and eye health, with an emphasis on data collection surrounding new and changing burden of eye disease.
Applying a behavior change framework to guide the design of interventions to improve respectful maternity care (RMC) could accelerate and unify the implementation and evaluation of diverse RMC interventions.
Our review of recent publications on medical oxygen availability during the COVID pandemic underscores the urgent need to prevent unnecessary morbidity and mortality resulting from inequitable access to supplemental medical oxygen therapy.