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- Building Public Health Quantitative Methods Capacity and Networks in sub-Saharan Africa: An Evaluation of a Faculty Training Program
Capacity-strengthening for faculty teaching quantitative skills can be accomplished through a cross-national training program that simultaneously builds research networks.
- Enhancing Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation for Hospitalized and Recently Discharged People Living With HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa
A dedicated HIV-services team can support effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiations for hospitalized people with HIV through structured case finding, ART initiation, and post-discharge linkage support. Replicating this model across South Africa and the region could improve individual outcomes.
- A Novel Approach to Assessing the Potential of Electronic Decision Support Systems to Improve the Quality of Antenatal Care in Nepal
An electronic decision support system alone is not enough to provide quality antenatal care in the Nepalese setting.
- Process Evaluation of Teaching Critical Thinking About Health Using the Informed Health Choices Intervention in Uganda: A Mixed Methods Study
The Informed Health Choices educational resources improve students’ ability to critically appraise claims about the effects of health interventions. The resources also enable teachers to teach and assess critical thinking and problem-solving competencies using health as a topic.
- Health System Factors Influencing the Integration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis into Antenatal and Postnatal Clinic Services in Cape Town, South Africa
Integrating PrEP for pregnant and breastfeeding women into antenatal and postnatal clinic services requires supportive PrEP prescription and HIV testing policies, improved availability of trained nurses and counselors, together with simplified access to PrEP and related information, both in clinics and communities.
- Process Evaluation of Teaching Critical Thinking About Health Using the Informed Health Choices Intervention in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Study
Factors that facilitated the implementation of the Informed Health Choices intervention included the teacher’s training workshop, the perceived value of the intervention by multiple stakeholders, and support from education officials and school management.
- Towards Ending AIDS: The Additional Role of HIV Self-Testing in Thailand
HIV self-testing is an additional intervention to increase individuals’ awareness of their HIV status and a key component in Thailand’s effort to end HIV/AIDS.
- Early Outcomes of Mental Health Screening Integrated Into Routine HIV Care in Malawi
Mental health screening for people living with HIV, conducted mostly by lay cadre health workers, was successfully integrated into antiretroviral therapy clinics in Malawi.
- The Impact of Health Information System Interventions on Maternal and Child Health Service Utilizations in Ethiopia: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Implementing health information system interventions to improve data quality improved the use of data for evidence-based decision-making at different health system levels and increased maternal and child health service utilization.
- Understanding Integrated Community Case Management Institutionalization Processes Within National Health Systems in Malawi, Mali, and Rwanda: A Qualitative Study
Documenting and analyzing the processes of integrated community case management institutionalization across multiple country contexts can further understanding of institutionalization and development of practical sensemaking conceptual models.