Cross-Cutting Topics
- A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care
The authors propose a strategy to guide the financing of surgical health care services as part of national health care policies in LMICs.
- Exploring Upward and Downward Provider Biases in Family Planning: The Case of Parity
The authors conceptualize a distinction between “upward” provider bias that occurs when providers pressure or encourage clients to adopt contraception and “downward” provider bias in family planning that discourages contraceptive use.
- Establishing the Ethiopian Obstetric Surveillance System for Monitoring Maternal Outcomes in Eastern Ethiopia: A Pilot Study
The authors’ pilot of the Ethiopian Obstetric Surveillance System demonstrates the feasibility of establishing similar systems to monitor maternal outcomes in other low-resource settings.
- Experiences of Justice-Involved People Transitioning to HIV Care in the Community After Prison Release in Lusaka, Zambia: A Qualitative Study
HIV care for incarcerated PLHIV in sub-Saharan Africa has improved, but little is known about their post-release experience with care. The authors conducted a qualitative study to describe factors influencing post-release HIV care continuity in Zambia.
- Training a Continent: A Process Evaluation of Virtual Training on Infection Prevention and Control in Africa During COVID-19
Virtual training programs provide a feasible way to strengthen infection prevention and control in Africa.
- Evaluation of a Depression Intervention in People With HIV and/or TB in Eswatini Primary Care Facilities: Implications for Southern Africa
The authors assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a program integrating basic mental health care into nurse-led HIV and TB care in rural settings in Eswatini and identified key barriers to implementation and scale-up.
- A Successful National and Multipartner Approach to Increase Immunization Coverage: The Democratic Republic of Congo Mashako Plan 2018–2020
An innovative rapid revitalization strategy strengthened routine immunization systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the engagement of subnational governments and could be applied to other low- and middle-income countries.
- Design, Development, and Deployment of an Electronic Immunization Registry: Experiences From Vietnam, Tanzania, and Zambia
We compare experiences implementing electronic immunization registries across countries to highlight findings and recommendations related to time, partnerships, financial costs, and technology and infrastructure.
- Scale-Up of a Newborn Resuscitation Capacity-Building and Skill Retention Program Associated With Improved Neonatal Outcomes in Gandaki Province, Nepal
A program in Nepal based on the Helping Babies Breathe training curriculum successfully scaled up newborn resuscitation training and skill retention and could serve as an evidence-based model in other resource-constrained settings.