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- The Journey Toward Establishing Inpatient Care for Small and Sick Newborns in Ethiopia, India, Malawi, and Rwanda
Documenting the journey to establish inpatient care for small and sick newborns in Ethiopia, India, Malawi, and Rwanda, the authors showcase the remarkable progress and share lessons with stakeholders in other countries who aim to do the same.
- Digitalizing Clinical Guidelines: Experiences in the Development of Clinical Decision Support Algorithms for Management of Childhood Illness in Resource-Constrained Settings
Clinical decision support systems can strengthen the quality of IMCI but can vary because of the need for interpretation when translating narrative guidelines into decision logic combined with considerations of context and design choices.
- Midpoint Reflections on USAID HIV Local Partner Transition Efforts
We discuss 5 key factors that have facilitated efforts to transition the majority of the USAID HIV/AIDS portfolio to direct funding through local organizations, including partner country governments.
- Exploring Upward and Downward Provider Biases in Family Planning: The Case of Parity
The authors conceptualize a distinction between “upward” provider bias that occurs when providers pressure or encourage clients to adopt contraception and “downward” provider bias in family planning that discourages contraceptive use.
- Choices and Challenges: Visualizing Contraceptive Use Dynamics Data in 15 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Interactive data visualization tools, particularly Sankey diagrams, are an effective approach for showing high-level trends in contraceptive adoption, switching, and discontinuation.
- Inequities in Family Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Equity has improved for access to contraceptive methods and for measures to lessen discrimination against key subgroups in low- and middle-income countries.
- The Cost of Providing Comprehensive HIV Services to Key Populations: An Analysis of the LINKAGES Program in Kenya and Malawi
A cost analysis of comprehensive HIV services for key populations at higher risk of infection in Kenya and Malawi showed that costs can be substantial at all program implementation levels, not just service delivery; all these costs should be considered during program planning.
- Community Barriers, Enablers, and Normative Embedding of Second Year of Life Vaccination in Ghana: A Qualitative Study
Community perceptions of barriers and enablers to 2YL vaccination provide a snapshot of an active diffusion process as new practices gradually displace older embedded ones and practical costs and benefits of later vaccination are reevaluated.
- Taking Stock: An Adaptable Research and Partnership Model for Developing Puberty Education in 10 Countries
Puberty books, developed through participatory youth engagement and local partnerships, could provide a meaningful and culturally acceptable tool to inform youth of puberty content in areas where educational systems cannot do so.