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- Supporting the Manufacturing of Medical Supplies in Africa: Collaboration Between Africa CDC, Partners, and Member States
Inadequate supply of PPE, vaccines, and diagnostics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa created an opportunity to promote local manufacturing. Authors describe Africa CDC's contributions and highlight strategies for strengthening the pandemic response.
- Lessons Learned From Building a Global Health Partnership on Obstetric Care in Madagascar
The authors share experiences of a global health partnership that worked to promote equity through a commitment to shared values and goals, engagement and communication, and mutual trust and respect.
- 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.
- Individual, Community, and Health Facility Predictors of Postnatal Care Utilization in Rural Tanzania: A Multilevel Analysis
PNC visits are an opportunity to promote physical and emotional recovery, offer infant care and feeding advice, detect and treat postpartum complications, and discuss birth spacing. Offering PNC in nearby health facilities with adequate quality of care can increase usage rates.
- Repeatability of Pulse Oximetry Measurements in Children During Triage in 2 Ugandan Hospitals
This analysis of spot measurements of oxygen saturation in children during routine triage in Ugandan hospitals indicates the importance of signal quality and duration of measurement in achieving repeatable pulse oximetry measurements.
- Considerations for Program Managers to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Displaced Populations
Delivering sexual and reproductive health services to migrating and displaced populations is complex. The authors provide 4 recommendations drawing on their experience across Africa and Asia.
- Assessing Use, Usefulness, and Application of the High Impact Practices in Family Planning Briefs and Strategic Planning Guides
This study highlights the important role that products like the High Impact Practices in Family Planning briefs and strategic planning guides have in increasing accessibility of evidence and experiential knowledge and informing public health practices and programs.
- Can a Smartphone Application Help Address Barriers to Reporting Substandard/Falsified Medical Products? A Pilot Study in Tanzania and Indonesia
A training workshop & smartphone app for health care professionals to report suspected substandard or falsified medical products was found to be effective and more convenient than existing reporting systems.