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- Capacity-Building Through Digital Approaches: Evaluating the Feasibility and Effectiveness of eLearning to Introduce Subcutaneous DMPA Self-Injection in Senegal and Uganda
This evaluation of online training for health workers to counsel clients wishing to self-inject subcutaneous DMPA suggests that online training can be effective while saving time and money. Further, eLearning courses work best when complemented with supportive supervision to help health workers correctly apply their knowledge through hands-on practice.
- Applying a Theory of Change for Human Resources Development in Public Health Supply Chains in Rwanda
The Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Theory of Change model enables users to assess how a country’s existing supply chain human resources system compares to the conditions necessary for optimized supply chain management workforce performance.
- People that Deliver: Established to Address the Health Supply Chain Workforce Gap
This commentary details the People that Deliver coalition’s work globally in the area of human resources for supply chain management and examines its role in improving the capacity of the health supply chain workforce in low- and middle-income countries.
- Presenting a Framework to Professionalize Health Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) Professionalisation Framework—a valuable tool to initiate awareness and advocacy in recognizing SCM professionals within national health systems—can be used to define and align SCM professional standards, competencies, and curricula, thus strengthening the labor market for health SCM professionals.
- Strategic Training Executive Program 2.0: A Leadership and Change Management Program for Health Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
STEP 2.0 is an innovative approach to developing leadership and change management competencies that will enable local supply chain management professionals to contribute to commodity and medicine availability, leading to improved health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
- Promising Practices in Capacity Development for Health Supply Chains in Resource-Constrained Countries
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.
- Indicators and Implementation Guidance to Advance Value-Based HIV Care Through People-Centered Metrics
We argue that validating person-centered outcome metrics and integrating them into HIV programs may improve patient’s quality of life and health outcomes by informing the provider-client relationship, promoting integrated service delivery at the program level, and influencing policy and budget allocations at the population level.
- Lessons Learned From a Peer-Supported Differentiated Care and Nutritional Supplementation for People With TB in a Southern Indian State
This pilot from southern India highlights the potential role of trained TB champions in counseling severely ill people with TB and facilitating targeted nutritional supplementation by mobilizing local resources.
- Facilitators and Barriers for Private Health Sector Engagement for TB Care in India: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Research
To strengthen the private sector engagement in TB care in India, several strategies should be considered, such as promoting nonfinancial incentives to private providers, establishing a coordination mechanism between public and private sectors, and simplifying data exchange mechanisms.
- Implementation of Maternal and Newborn Health Mobile Phone E-Cohorts to Track Longitudinal Care Quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
We describe the feasibility, lessons learned, and challenges of implementing a longitudinal phone survey that followed women from their first antenatal care visit through delivery and until 3 months postpartum to assess health system competence, user experience, and health outcomes in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and South Africa.