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June 2020 | Volume 8 | Number 2

EDITORIALS

  • Open Access
    Will the Higher-Income Country Blueprint for COVID-19 Work in Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries?
    Stephen Hodgins and Abdulmumin Saad
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):136-143; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00217

    Strategies to radically suppress incidence of COVID-19, as used in higher-income countries, may be unrealistic and counterproductive in most low- and lower middle-income countries. Instead, strategies should be tailored to the setting, balancing expected benefits, potential harms, and feasibility.

  • Open Access
    Institutionalization of Projects Into Districts in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Needs Stewardship, Autonomy, and Resources
    Peter Waiswa
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):144-146; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00170

    Important attributes for project institutionalization include strong stewardship and champions, affordability, demand for the intervention and perceived benefit, minimal complexity, and optimal intervention design and period of support.

  • Open Access
    Learning from Community Health Worker Programs, Big and Small
    Stephen Hodgins
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):147-149; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00244

    Small, well-implemented, well-evaluated community health worker programs can provide useful insights and inspiration. Testing, learning, and adapting at progressively larger scale can ultimately lead to national-scale programs that achieve sustainable impact.

COMMENTARIES

  • Open Access
    Beyond No Blame: Practical Challenges of Conducting Maternal and Perinatal Death Reviews in Eastern Ethiopia
    Abera Kenay Tura, Sagni Girma Fage, Alexander Mohamed Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohamed, Redwan Ahmed, Tadesse Gure, Joost Zwart and Thomas van den Akker on behalf of the AMAN-MAMA investigators
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):150-154; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00366

    Lack of a professional body to address patients’ complaints regarding quality of health care and absence of clear medicolegal guidance hamper maternal death reviews in Ethiopia.

VIEWPOINTS

  • Open Access
    Coping With COVID-19: Learning From Past Pandemics to Avoid Pitfalls and Panic
    Daniel T. Halperin
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):155-165; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00189

    It is imperative to concur on the main transmission routes of COVID-19 to explain risk and determine the most effective means to reduce illness and mortality. We must avoid generating irrational fear and maintain a broader perspective in the pandemic response, including assessing the possibility for substantial unintended consequences.

  • Open Access
    Contraception in the Era of COVID-19
    Kavita Nanda, Elena Lebetkin, Markus J. Steiner, Irina Yacobson and Laneta J. Dorflinger
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):166-168; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00119

    As global health systems and communities prepare to meet an unprecedented threat causing increased demands for the care of people with COVID-19, health care providers should strive to ensure continuity of reproductive health care to women and girls in the face of facility service disruption.

  • Open Access
    Doing Things Differently: What It Would Take to Ensure Continued Access to Contraception During COVID-19
    Michelle Weinberger, Brendan Hayes, Julia White and John Skibiak
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):169-175; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00171

    COVID-19 may fundamentally change women’s contraceptive use, meaning that the future we have been planning and procuring for, may not match these changes. In these unprecedented times, we must rethink how we link product and program in the short-term to ensure women’s changing needs are met.

  • Open Access
    Multimonth Dispensing of Antiretroviral Therapy Protects the Most Vulnerable From 2 Pandemics at Once
    Ariana Moriah Traub, Temitayo Ifafore-Calfee and Benjamin Ryan Phelps
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):176-177; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00160

    We encourage governments in countries that have a high prevalence of people living with HIV to implement multimonth dispensing of antiretroviral therapy to safeguard both patients with HIV and health care workers from coronavirus disease COVID-19.

  • Open Access
    Ebola: A Hyperinflated Emergency
    Victor K. Barbiero
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):178-182; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00422

    As with the Ebola outbreak, global under-5 mortality and morbidity should be considered a public health emergency of international concern.

  • 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.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  • Open Access
    District Health Teams’ Readiness to Institutionalize Integrated Community Case Management in the Uganda Local Health Systems: A Repeated Qualitative Study
    Agnes Nanyonjo, Edmound Kertho, James Tibenderana and Karin Källander
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):190-204; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00318

    District health teams failed to transition from partner-supported integrated community case management (iCCM) programs to locally-run and fully-institutionalized programs. Successful iCCM institutionalization requires local ownership with increased coordination among governmental and nongovernmental actors at the national and district levels.

  • Open Access
    Scaling Up Access to Implants: A Summative Evaluation of the Implants Access Program
    Rebecca Braun and Annika Grever
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):205-219; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00383

    The Implants Access Program increased access to implants by addressing price, supply chain, service delivery, and knowledge and awareness barriers. Sustaining progress requires institutionalized mechanisms to continue global efforts and long-term assurances that implants’ low price will be maintained.

  • Open Access
    What Goes In Must Come Out: A Mixed-Method Study of Access to Contraceptive Implant Removal Services in Ghana
    Rebecca Callahan, Elena Lebetkin, Claire Brennan, Emmanuel Kuffour, Angela Boateng, Samuel Tagoe, Anne Coolen, Mario Chen, Patrick Aboagye and Aurélie Brunie
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):220-238; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00013

    Many Ghanaian women seeking implant removal are able to obtain services, but knowledge and access gaps exist.

  • Open Access
    Costing Analysis of a Pilot Community Health Worker Program in Rural Nepal
    Prajwol Nepal, Ryan Schwarz, David Citrin, Aradhana Thapa, Bibhav Acharya, Yubraj Acharya, Anu Aryal, Aaron Baum, Ved Bhandari, Laxman Bhatt, Dipak Bhattarai, Nandini Choudhury, Binod Dangal, Meghnath Dhimal, Santosh Kumar Dhungana, Bikash Gauchan, Scott Halliday, SP Kalaunee, Lal Bahadur Kunwar, Duncan Maru, Isha Nirola, Rashmi Paudel, Anant Raut, Hari Jung Rayamazi, Sabitri Sapkota, Dan Schwarz, Poshan Thapa, Pratistha Thapa, Aparna Tiwari, Roshani Tuitui, Eric Walter and Sheela Maru
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):239-255; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00393

    Data from a retrospective costing analysis offers insights and practical considerations for policy makers and locally elected officials for designing and implementing a new community health work cadre as a mechanism to achieve SDG targets in Nepal.

  • 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
    Evaluating the Implementation of an Intervention to Improve Postpartum Contraception in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study of Provider and Client Perspectives
    Kristy Hackett, Sarah Huber-Krum, Joel M. Francis, Leigh Senderowicz, Erin Pearson, Hellen Siril, Nzovu Ulenga and Iqbal Shah
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):270-289; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00365

    Training and supervision to improve interpersonal aspects of care, including an emphasis on patient-centered counseling, informed choice, and respectful and nondiscriminatory service delivery, should be integrated into future postpartum family planning initiatives.

FIELD ACTION REPORTS

  • Open Access
    Recall Efforts Successfully Increase Follow-Up for Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women With Human Papillomavirus in Honduras
    Kerry A. Thomson, Manuel Sandoval, Carolyn Bain, Francesca Holme, Pooja Bansil, Jacqueline Figueroa and Silvia de Sanjosé
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):290-299; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00404

    A reminder phone call had a substantial impact on high rates of women returning for rescreening among those at high risk of developing cervical precancer. Scaling up routine cervical screening coverage must be accompanied by efforts to retain women throughout the screening cascade and continuum of care.

REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS

  • Open Access
    Close to Home: Evidence on the Impact of Community-Based Girl Groups
    Miriam Temin and Craig J. Heck
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2020, 8(2):300-324; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00015

    Available evidence, though limited, shows that programs can use community-based girl groups to help adolescent girls improve attitudes toward gender roles and norms, early pregnancy, and child marriage; evaluations indicate they have suboptimal performance on health behavior and health status.

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  • Will the Higher-Income Country Blueprint for COVID-19 Work in Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries?
  • Coping With COVID-19: Learning From Past Pandemics to Avoid Pitfalls and Panic
  • Contraception in the Era of COVID-19
  • District Health Teams’ Readiness to Institutionalize Integrated Community Case Management in the Uganda Local Health Systems: A Repeated Qualitative Study
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