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- Twinning Partnership Network: A Learning and Experience-Sharing Network Among Health Professionals in Rwanda to Improve Health Services
Twinning and peer-to-peer learning networks can play a pivotal role in building strong institutions and improving performance, leveraging both local and external expertise where learning and collaboration occur both within and beyond local contexts.
- Innovations in Providing HIV Index Testing Services: A Retrospective Evaluation of Partner Elicitation Models in Southern Nigeria
The implementation of the elicitation box model to elicit sexual partners of HIV-positive index cases resulted in an increase in partner elicitation compared to the conventional model.
- Development and Piloting of Implementation Strategies to Support Delivery of a Clinical Intervention for Postpartum Hemorrhage in Four sub-Saharan Africa Countries
We describe the systematic approach taken to identify areas of suboptimal postpartum hemorrhage detection and management to develop implementation strategies to support the delivery of the E-MOTIVE intervention in 4 countries.
- Adapting the Social Norms Exploration Tool in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Identify Social Norms for Behavior Change
The Social Norms Exploration Tool is a rapid assessment tool for programs that research can adapt to help determine how to explore social norms and identify which norms and population interventions to address to facilitate the behavior of interest.
- 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.
- Good Management Practice Is Correlated With Good Performance of Community-Engaged Primary Health Care Facilities in Peru
This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of regional management practices that could support primary health care service performance in the context of the innovative community engagement model implemented through the unique program with embedded mechanisms for accountability.
- Design and Implementation of Brief Interventions to Address Noncommunicable Diseases in Uzbekistan
Large-scale implementation of brief interventions to address behavioral risk factors of noncommunicable diseases in primary care health settings in Uzbekistan is limited by a lack of human resources, a supportive system, and clear incentives for clinicians.
- An Oxygen Supply Is Not Enough: A Qualitative Analysis of a Pressure Swing Adsorption Oxygen Plant Program in Ethiopian Hospitals
Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen systems are more complicated than oxygen concentrators but can generate a much greater volume of medical oxygen and serve a network of hospitals, increasing regional supply. Direct feedback from hospital workers collected during the COVID-19 pandemic provided strong validation and reinforcement of the need for new oxygen supplies to be accompanied by investments in transportation, clinical and technical training, and provision of equipment and supplies.
- Assessing Acceptability of Biodegradable Contraceptive Implants in Kenya and Senegal
Biodegradable contraceptive implants under development offer the potential for expanded choice for long-acting contraception with the benefit of no removal. Introduction and marketing efforts will need to consider messaging around product characteristics.