Health Topics
- 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.
- Defining Collective Priorities: Research and Learning Agendas for Family Planning Across 6 Countries
Policymakers and national stakeholders can cocreate FP research and learning agendas to identify and prioritize evidence gaps and foster responsive research, thereby driving progress toward increasingly evidence-based FP programming and policy.
- Measuring National Immunization System Performance: A Systematic Assessment of Available Resources
This review of monitoring and evaluation resources identified multiple performance indicators that can inform country-specific approaches to evaluating immunization systems.
- Expanding the Role of Women in Vector Control: Case Studies From Madagascar, Rwanda, and Zambia
We present effective and replicable strategies to integrate women into vector control that provide paid employment opportunities and enhance economic empowerment while strengthening vector control operations.
- An Evaluation of Local Implementing Partner Performance During the First 2 Years of the USAID/PEPFAR Transition
We examine local partner performance across the HIV/AIDS clinical cascade during the USAID/PEPFAR transition to local partners.
- Development and Piloting of a Mental Health Prevention and Referral Program for Veterans and Their Families in Ukraine
The CETA Psychosocial Support program is a single-session intervention that can be delivered by lay providers to support mental health prevention and referral for veterans and their families in Ukraine.
- Strengthening Kampala’s Urban Referral System for Maternal and Newborn Care Through Establishment of an Emergency Call and Dispatch Center
An emergency call and ambulance dispatch center facilitated maternal and newborn transport, and a smartphone application helped deploy and track ambulances to improve coordination and efficiency in emergency case referral and transport.
- A Participatory Comic Book Workshop to Improve Youth-Friendly Post-Rape Care in a Humanitarian Context in Uganda: A Case Study
Participatory comic books offer a novel approach to strengthening health care providers’ understanding of refugee youth’s post-rape care needs and can be embedded in provider training in humanitarian contexts.
- The Role of Sudanese Doctors in the United Kingdom in Mitigating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Their Diaspora Communities
A COVID-19 vaccine awareness campaign conducted by Sudanese doctors helped to mitigate vaccine hesitancy among Sudanese diaspora groups in the United Kingdom.