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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Sierra Leone was the worst affected country in West Africa’s recent Ebola epidemic. Prior to the epidemic, the status of the health system was poor. The most recent public…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities (HCFs) play critical roles in infection prevention, especially surrounding childbirth. Despite…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Access to safe drinking water and improved hygiene are important for reducing diarrhea morbidity and mortality. A clinic-based intervention to integrate the…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: There is growing recognition of the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare institutions for…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Financial barriers to health such as the introduction of user fees at the point of care result in decreased utilization of curative services of as much as 55%.  This…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: PPTCT programs in India mainly focus on prong 3 i.e. providing antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child. However,…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Introduction: Kenya is among the 22 countries that account for >90% of all new pediatric HIV infections globally. Within the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival (PHFS), we…

This brief describes WHO recommendations for IPTp to prevent MIP and iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation to prevent iron deficiency anemia in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, with an emphasis on giving the correct dose of folic acid to maximize the…

This document is a malaria in pregnancy case management job aid, for use by countries with P. Falciparum malaria. In collaboration with the President’s Malaria Initiative, MCSP has developed this two-page job aid to assist service providers with this…