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- Leveraging COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring in Ethiopia and Pakistan to Enhance System-Wide Safety Surveillance
This article demonstrates the importance of strengthening surveillance systems that monitor adverse events following immunization in Ethiopia and Pakistan to ensure vaccine safety and effectiveness and build public confidence in vaccination programs.
- COVID-19 Vaccination Integration: Efforts in 11 African Countries to Strengthen the Primary Health Care System
Efforts to integrate COVID-19 vaccination into the primary health care system in 11 African countries have been initiated through partnerships, collaborations, and leveraging existing infrastructure.
- Achieving COVID-19 and Routine Immunization Data Systems Integration on the Electronic Management of Immunization Data System in Nigeria
The authors discuss approaches to transforming Nigeria’s COVID-19 data management system (the Electronic Management of Immunization Data (EMID) system) into an optimized platform for integrated primary health care data management.
- Harmonizing Data Visualizations on Child Health and Well-Being to Strengthen Advocacy and Monitoring Efforts
Data visualization tools on child health have improved data accessibility but caused confusion over indicator data sources and which tools to use for specific purposes. We propose principles for generating future tools that can effectively trigger action and accountability for children everywhere.
- Another Best Practice: Leveraging User and Stakeholder Perspectives to Improve and Refine Existing Medical Products
Refinement of existing medical products, which may already have an established evidence base, robust market, and experienced users, may better meet user and potential user needs, if feedback from key stakeholders is solicited and incorporated early in the refinement process.
- Do No Harm: A Review of Social Harms Associated with HIV Partner Notification
This narrative review provides an in-depth interpretation of the limited evidence available on social harms associated with HIV partner notification services. Findings reflect knowledge gaps and areas where future research could make contributions.
- Keeping the Customer Satisfied: Applying a Kano Model to Improve Vaccine Promotion in the Philippines
The authors show how global health science and practice can benefit from applying approaches established in other fields, such as consumer psychology and quality management, to increase clients' satisfaction with health interventions.
- Service Delivery Considerations for Introducing New Injectable Contraceptives Lasting 4 and 6 Months in Nigeria and Uganda: A Qualitative Study
Family planning stakeholders in Nigeria and Uganda are interested in expanding the range of injectable contraceptives offered in their countries, and their engagement will be key to ensuring the successful introduction and scale-up of these new products.