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ORIGINAL ARTICLES
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Product Procurement, Prices, and Supply Chain in Zimbabwe: Lessons for Supply Chain Resiliency
The authors document how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical product supply chain and procurement in Zimbabwe, impacting medicine access and prices. Policies and interventions are needed to ensure ongoing supply chain resilience.
- Calculating the Costs of Implementing Integrated Packages of Community Health Services: Methods, Experiences, and Results From 6 sub-Saharan African Countries
Authors of this article calculated the costs of implementing community health programs and compared the results across 6 sub-Saharan African countries, providing evidence for helping governments plan for sufficient resources for their effective implementation.
- Measuring Effects of Counseling to Increase Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adherence and Partner Support in South Africa Using the Healthy Relationship Assessment Tool
Authors examined the effectiveness of the Healthy Relationship Assessment Tool to guide counselors in supporting women to address relationship-related challenges to pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence and measured women's score changes after counseling over time.
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditure for Antenatal Care Amid Free Health Care Provision: Evidence From a Large Pregnancy Cohort in Rural Sri Lanka
The authors report that even with the free health care services provided by the government, out-of-pocket expenditure for antenatal care in Sri Lanka is high, and women in low-income groups have a higher expenditure compared to higher-income groups.
- Exploring the Adaptations of the Free Maternity Policy Implementation by Health Workers and County Officials in Kenya
To achieve the objectives of the free maternity policy in Kenya and overcome implementation challenges, health care workers and county officials—as policy implementers—covertly and unofficially developed local arrangements and adaptive strategies.
- Lessons From Implementing Ask-Boost-Connect-Discuss, a Peer-Delivered Psychosocial Intervention for Young Mothers Living With HIV in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
To respond to the distinct needs of young mothers living with HIV, peer supporters can be trained to provide structured psychosocial support. The authors assessed the feasibility of using young peers to deliver this psychosocial support.
- Applying a Power Analysis to Everything We Do: A Qualitative Inquiry to Decolonize the Global Health and Development Project Cycle
This study contributes evidence characterizing the legacy of colonialism in global health and development and reinforces calls to recenter Global South expertise and leadership from the perspectives of experienced practitioners in the Global South and North.
- Is Early Childhood Development Care at Public Health Facilities in Pakistan Effective? A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
An integrated early childhood development care intervention effectively reduced global development delays and improved growth outcomes in rural Pakistan.
FIELD ACTION REPORTS
- UDHAVI Community Support During India's Second COVID-19 Wave: A Descriptive Study on a Tertiary Care Center's Pandemic Response Helpline
The authors describe how a tertiary care institution in India initiated a helpline during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that leveraged institutional medical expertise and community health networks to better coordinate pandemic response efforts.
- How Real-Time Case-Based Malaria Surveillance Helps Zanzibar Get a Step Closer to Malaria Elimination: Description of Operational Platform and Resources
The authors describe how the Zanzibar Malaria Program successfully implemented a real-time case-based malaria surveillance platform that is helping Zanzibar get closer to malaria elimination.
PROGRAM CASE STUDIES
- Implementation of a Multisectoral Approach to Address Adolescent Pregnancy: A Case Study of Subnational Advocacy Informing National Scale-Up in Kenya
Implementation of a multisectoral initiative to address adolescent pregnancy in Kenya required strong leadership and ownership at both national and subnational levels. Advocacy is key to harnessing leadership, ownership, and scale-up.
- Task-Shifting Immunization Activities to Community Health Workers: A Mixed-Method Cross-Sectional Study in Sahel Region, Burkina Faso
The authors describe a successful strategy of task-shifting child immunization activities to CHWs in insecure areas of Burkina Faso to improve vaccine coverage.
- Health System Strengthening Through Professional Midwives in Bangladesh: Best Practices, Challenges, and Successes
The authors detail the establishment of the profession of globally standard midwives deployed into the national health care system in Bangladesh that improved the quality and availability of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health services.
REVIEWS
- Software Tools to Facilitate Community-Based Surveillance: A Scoping Review
Authors of this review identified software tools that could be used for community-based public health surveillance and facilitate faster communication of potential outbreaks, reporting, and coordination of response efforts.
COMMENTARIES
Inadequate supply of PPE, vaccines, and diagnostics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa created an opportunity to promote local manufacturing. Authors describe Africa CDC's contributions and highlight strategies for strengthening the pandemic response.
FP and menstrual health integration has the potential to improve individuals' health and well-being. The authors describe potential ways to integrate FP and menstrual health, outlining steps that stakeholders can take in designing integrated approaches.
The authors share experiences of a global health partnership that worked to promote equity through a commitment to shared values and goals, engagement and communication, and mutual trust and respect.
The authors explain that using causal loop diagrams can visualize retrospectively the unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 related policies on maternal health and has potential to be used prospectively to foster decision-making to prevent those consequences.