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- Development and Piloting of a Mental Health Prevention and Referral Program for Veterans and Their Families in Ukraine
The CETA Psychosocial Support program is a single-session intervention that can be delivered by lay providers to support mental health prevention and referral for veterans and their families in Ukraine.
- A Participatory Comic Book Workshop to Improve Youth-Friendly Post-Rape Care in a Humanitarian Context in Uganda: A Case Study
Participatory comic books offer a novel approach to strengthening health care providers’ understanding of refugee youth’s post-rape care needs and can be embedded in provider training in humanitarian contexts.
- Addressing the Need for a Preexposure Prophylaxis Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Guide: Experience From Zambia
The authors share the experience of developing a national preexposure prophylaxis program monitoring and evaluation implementation guide in Zambia, which can inform approaches to meet similar needs in other sub-Saharan African countries.
- The Godmother Project: A Virtual Initiative to Support Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic
WhatsApp groups of pregnant and postpartum women led by dedicated nurse educators can help educate and support women during the perinatal period, especially in contexts of physical distancing requirements or where social support is unavailable.
- Institutionalizing the Management of Sick Young Infants: Kenya’s Experience in Revising National Guidelines on Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illnesses
Using implementation research to introduce guidelines on management of sick young infants with possible severe bacterial infection into Kenya’s integrated management of newborn and childhood illness guidelines improved uptake of services for sick young infants.
- A Successful National and Multipartner Approach to Increase Immunization Coverage: The Democratic Republic of Congo Mashako Plan 2018–2020
An innovative rapid revitalization strategy strengthened routine immunization systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the engagement of subnational governments and could be applied to other low- and middle-income countries.
- Evaluating Counseling for Choice in Malawi: A Client-Centered Approach to Contraceptive Counseling
Authors found that clients counseled using the Counseling for Choice approach in Malawi reported better quality of contraceptive counseling and experience of care using metrics including person-centered care and quality of information exchange.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.