The USAID-funded Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services-North, Lango project promotes and facilitates voluntary medical male circumcision as part of its comprehensive HIV-prevention strategy.
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Empowering Africas Daughters: Lessons from the DREAMS Innovation Challenge
On May 7, 2019, DREAMS Innovation Challenge held their closing event, Empowering Africa’s Daughters: Lessons from the DREAMS Innovation Challenge. The occasion celebrated the transformative impact of this initiative on the lives of over 160,000 adolescent girls and young women across ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bicycling for Health
In Tanzania, bicycles help community case workers reach HIV-affected families and link vulnerable children and their family to health services.
Supporting Smart Investments in Digital Health- Introducing the DHIRT
JSI joined the global digital health community to create the Digital Health Investment Review Tool (DHIRT). DHIRT provides high-level guidance based on these best practices to support strategic investments in global digital health.
Disease Surveillance is Key to Freeing Madagascar from Polio
With USAID funding, MCSP mobilized to address this gap and the outbreak of vaccine-derived polio virus in Madagascar. MCSP’s Child Health and Immunization programming is led by JSI.
Health Workers Provide Lifesaving Services to Children in Rural Uganda
According to Uganda’s Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS 2016), 1 in 16 Ugandan children do not live to reach their fifth birthday. Thanks to the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program, health facilities across the cadres are improving services to reduce referral and treatment costs for families by ensuring timely and correct classification and management of children under-five.
2018 Brought Us the Closest We’ve Ever Been to HIV Epidemic Control
Check out the moments that defined another year partnering with local communities, organizations, and governments in pursuit of a world free from new HIV infections.
How Madagascar’s Biodiversity Influenced My Career in Public Health
Read about Yvette’s journey, from youth through her career, and how her interest in health and fascination with Madagascar’s people and natural resources grew.
Fighting TB Starts with Data
The state of available data on TB prevalence, programs, and their results differs from place to place. To ensure that data are reliable, all health information systems and studies need means of assessing and ensuring data quality.
New AIDSFree Resource: Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis Knowledge Base
AIDSFree has officially launched its newest web resource: the Viral Load (VL) and Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) Knowledge Base. Both VL testing and EID are essential to achieving 90-90-90 goals at country and global levels. The new resource, developed in consultation with clinicians and experts in logistics and lab management at USAID, serves as a one-stop resource for information on these critical interventions