Health Systems
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons Learned During Implementation of a Remote Monitoring Program for Home-Isolated COVID-19 Patients in Chennai, India
We describe the lessons learned from developing and implementing a remote monitoring program for home-isolated COVID patients in a limited-resource setting.
- 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.
- Oxygen Inequity in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Our review of recent publications on medical oxygen availability during the COVID pandemic underscores the urgent need to prevent unnecessary morbidity and mortality resulting from inequitable access to supplemental medical oxygen therapy.