Latest Articles
- 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.
- Advocacy as a Tool for Advancing Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Case Study
This article analyzes the processes used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to achieve 4 advocacy wins—evidence that systematic efforts at policy advocacy can result in concrete outcomes.
- Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a School-Based Sexual Health Education Program for Adolescent Girls in Cape Town, South Africa
Community engagement and acceptability of sexual education programs for adolescents alone are insufficient to ensure program uptake and engagement.
- Prevalence of Skeletal Fluorosis in Northern Tanzania: A Follow-Up Study
This follow-up study uniquely identifies the incidence rates for skeletal fluorosis in Tindigani village in Northern Tanzania and suggests that skeletal fluorosis in this population is an ongoing, yet preventable cause of long-term disability requiring public health intervention.
- Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Iterating a Qualitative Analysis Process Across Multiple Countries, Sites, and Teams
The authors propose a model for multinational modified grounded theory studies and describe their team's process of collaborating and adapting the model to allow for local needs across countries.
- Strengthening the Diagnosis and Treatment of Malnutrition Through Increased Nurse Involvement: A Quality Improvement Project From Pediatric Wards in Mozambique
This study shows how increased nurse engagement combined with quality improvement methods may lead to important accomplishments in diagnosing and caring for malnourished children in pediatric wards in Mozambique.
- Advocacy for Better Integration and Use of Child Health Indicators for Global Monitoring
Making better use of harmonized indicators to monitor child health and well-being at the global level will avoid duplicative monitoring and evaluation exercises, improve evidence-based programming, and preserve resources that can be used to improve the quality of national data collection platforms.
- Using Human-Centered Design to Explore Potential Users' and Men's Views of New Injectable Contraceptives in Kampala and Lagos
Although residents of Lagos and Kampala are interested in injectable contraception that lasts either 4 or 6 months, they have concerns as well.