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  • Open Access
    Developing and Testing a Chatbot to Integrate HIV Education Into Family Planning Clinic Waiting Areas in Lusaka, Zambia
    Eileen A. Yam, Edith Namukonda, Tracy McClair, Samir Souidi, Nachela Chelwa, Nelly Muntalima, Michael Mbizvo and Ben Bellows
    Global Health: Science and Practice October 2022, 10(5):e2100721; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00721

    In response to the need to integrate HIV prevention content with FP counseling, a chatbot was developed and tested for use among FP clients in clinic waiting areas to leverage the time while they wait to see providers and guide them through a digital conversation on preventing both pregnancy and HIV.

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    Digital Health Technologies Applied by the Pharmaceutical Industry to Improve Access to Noncommunicable Disease Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Anne Christine Stender Heerdegen, Carlotta Maria Cellini, Veronika J. Wirtz and Peter C. Rockers
    Global Health: Science and Practice October 2022, 10(5):e2200072; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00072

    Digital health technologies applied by the pharmaceutical industry offer opportunities to improve access to care for patients with noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Open Access
    Adapting High Impact Practices in Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe
    Morrisa Malkin, Alexandria K. Mickler, Theophilus O. Ajibade, Alexis Coppola, Eden Demise, Esinath Derera, Joy Otsanya Ede, Meghan Gallagher, Lucia Gumbo, Zorodzai Jakopo, Kristen Little, Absolom Mbinda, Gladwin Muchena, Nyaradzo Debra Muhonde, Khesiwe Ncube, Fifi Oluwatoyin Ogbondeminu, Shannon Pryor and Elsie Nzale Sang
    Global Health: Science and Practice August 2022, 10(4):e2200064; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00064

    Documenting how family planning programs adapt to ensure continuity of care during the COVID-19 pandemic is an important contribution toward implementing approaches that are effective and resilient in the face of present and future challenges.

  • Open Access
    Optimizing the Health Management Information System in Uttar Pradesh, India: Implementation Insights and Key Learnings
    Ankita Meghani, Anand B. Tripathi, Huzaifa Bilal, Shivam Gupta, Ravi Prakash, Vasanthakumar Namasivayam, James Blanchard, Shajy Isac, Pankaj Kumar and B.M. Ramesh
    Global Health: Science and Practice August 2022, 10(4):e2100632; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00632

    The Uttar Pradesh Health Management Information System has allowed managers across all levels of the state’s health system to access routinely collected data through a comprehensive online portal, contributing to a culture of information use.

  • Open Access
    Maintaining Continuity of Care for Expectant Mothers in Kenya During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of MomCare
    Teresa De Sanctis, Mary-Ann Etiebet, Wendy Janssens, Mark H. van der Graaf, Colette van Montfort, Emma Waiyaiya and Nicole Spieker
    Global Health: Science and Practice August 2022, 10(4):e2100665; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00665

    During the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, the MomCare platform enabled care-seeking behaviors to increase and quality of care to be maintained for expectant mothers despite social, economic, and access barriers.

  • Open Access
    TraumaLink: A Community-Based First-Responder System for Traffic Injury Victims in Bangladesh
    Jon Moussally, Arup Chandra Saha and Susan Madden
    Global Health: Science and Practice August 2022, 10(4):e2100537; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00537

    A community-based network of trained volunteer layperson first responders in Bangladesh provided rapid and reliable on-scene trauma care to traffic injury victims, free of charge.

  • Open Access
    Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of mCME Version 2.0: An SMS-Based Continuing Medical Education Program for HIV Clinicians in Vietnam
    Lora L. Sabin, Aldina Mesic, Bao Ngoc Le, Nafisa Halim, Chi Thi Hue Cao, Rachael Bonawitz, Ha Viet Nguyen, Anna Larson, Tam Thi Thanh Nguyen, Anh Ngoc Le and Christopher J. Gill
    Global Health: Science and Practice August 2022, 10(4):e2200008; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00008

    This cost analysis found that a mobile phone-based continuing medical education (mCME) intervention, involving daily text messages with links to relevant materials, for HIV clinicians in northern Vietnam was relatively low-cost and cost-effective, particularly for future nationwide models. Such mobile approaches to CME are worthy of attention in resource-constrained settings.

  • Open Access
    “Testing Can Be Done Anywhere”: A Qualitative Assessment of Targeted Community-Based Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV in Lusaka, Zambia
    Tannia Tembo, Helen Dale, Nobutu Muttau, Megumi Itoh, Dhelia Williamson, Chanda Mwamba, Albert Manasyan, R. Suzanne Beard, Mackenzie Hurlston Cox and Michael E. Herce
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2022, 10(3):e2100723; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00723

    Community-based point-of-care testing is an acceptable, appropriate, and feasible strategy for improving access to HIV diagnostic services for high-risk HIV-exposed infants.

  • Open Access
    Transitioning to Digital Systems: The Role of World Health Organization’s Digital Adaptation Kits in Operationalizing Recommendations and Interoperability Standards
    Tigest Tamrat, Natschja Ratanaprayul, Maria Barreix, Özge Tunçalp, David Lowrance, Jenny Thompson, Leona Rosenblum, Nancy Kidula, Ram Chahar, Mary E. Gaffield, Mario Festin, James Kiarie, Brian Taliesin, Carl Leitner, Sylvia Wong, Teodora Wi, Hillary Kipruto, Ayotunde Adegboyega, Derrick Muneene, Lale Say and Garrett Mehl
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100320; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00320

    The World Health Organization (WHO) digital adaptation kits distill WHO guidance into a standardized format that can be more easily incorporated into digital systems and facilitate communication between the health workforce and technologists to enable a shared understanding of the underlying content.

  • Open Access
    Impact of Solar Light and Electricity on the Quality and Timeliness of Maternity Care: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trial in Uganda
    Slawa Rokicki, Brian Mwesigwa, Peter Waiswa and Jessica Cohen
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2021, 9(4):777-792; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00205

    Lack of access to reliable energy is a major neglected health system challenge to maternal and child health. We found that installing a solar energy system intervention in rural Ugandan maternity facilities led to modest increases in the quality of maternity care and reductions in delays in care.

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