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    Promising Practices in Capacity Development for Health Supply Chains in Resource-Constrained Countries
    Mahama Duwiejua, Pamela Steele, Paul Lalvani, Dorothy Leab, Lloyd Matowe and Jonathan Moody
    Global Health: Science and Practice May 2025, 13(Supplement 1):e2300208; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00208

    We present 3 country cases with varied objectives to illustrate the potential of innovative, promising practices as potential solutions for strengthening supply chains in low- and middle-income countries.

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    Embedding Research on Implementation of Primary Health Care Systems Strengthening: A Commentary on Collaborative Experiences in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique
    African Health Initiative Partnership Collaborative for Embedded Implementation Research
    Global Health: Science and Practice September 2022, 10(Supplement 1):e2200061; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00061

    The African Health Initiative prioritized embedded implementation research using a multidisciplinary partnership model that empowered decision makers and embedded research and capacity building at multiple levels of health systems.

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    A Review of Vitamin A Supplementation in South Sudan: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for the Way Forward
    Nancy Jean Haselow, Vandana Joshi, Priscilla Nicholas Bayo, Jesca W. Murye, Sadick Nawal Shaban, Kiross Tefera Abebe, Ismail Kassim, Tesfatsion Shiweredo, Hari Vinathan, Chandrakala Pramod Jaiswal, Khamisa Ayoub Miluwa, Eric Alain Ategbo, Biram Ndiaye and Mohamed Ag Ayoya
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2022, 10(3):e2100660; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00660

    Although South Sudan's vitamin A supplementation program has demonstrated success, vitamin A supplementation remains a critical public health need for young children. How can South Sudan best maintain high vitamin A supplementation coverage for the short to medium term while planning a more sustainable delivery approach for the longer term?

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    Integrating Human-Centered Design to Advance Global Health: Lessons From 3 Programs
    Emily Blynn, Emily Harris, Melanie Wendland, Courtney Chang, Dyness Kasungami, Monisha Ashok and Metsehate Ayenekulu
    Global Health: Science and Practice November 2021, 9(Supplement 2):S261-S273; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00279

    Lessons from 3 global health programs indicate that human-centered design (HCD) holds great potential for developing more tailored, impactful, and sustainable products and services to improve health and well-being. However, to take advantage of the full benefits of HCD, global health practitioners need to intentionally design and implement programs differently from typical health programs that do not incorporate design.

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    Liftoff: The Blossoming of Contraceptive Implant Use in Africa
    Roy Jacobstein
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2018, 6(1):17-39; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00396

    Contraceptive implant use is rising rapidly, substantially, and equitably in many sub-Saharan African countries, across almost all sociodemographic categories. Gains in implant use have exceeded combined gains for IUDs, pills, and injectables. Key contributing factors include sizeable reductions in commodity cost, much-increased commodity supply, greater government commitment to expanded method choice, and wider adoption of high-impact service delivery practices that broaden access and better reach underserved populations. Continued progress in meeting women's reproductive intentions with implants calls for further investment in quality services for both insertion and removal, and for addressing issues of financing and sustainability.

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    Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Encouraging Momentum, Formidable Challenges
    Dieudonné Kwete, Arsene Binanga, Thibaut Mukaba, Théophile Nemuandjare, Muanda Fidele Mbadu, Marie-Thérèse Kyungu, Perri Sutton and Jane T Bertrand
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2018, 6(1):40-54; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00346

    Formidable challenges: uncertain political situation, cultural norms favoring high fertility, a thin patchwork of service delivery institutions, logistical issues in a vast country with weak infrastructure, and low capacity of the population to pay for contraceptive services. Encouraging progress: increasing government and donor support, openness to progressive service delivery policies, innovative programming including robust social marketing and initiatives with nursing schools and the military, strong collaboration among stakeholders, high unmet need suggesting strong latent demand for family planning, and an increasingly balanced method mix including long-acting methods.