Building the capacity to manage and use of data for supply chain decision making in Nigeria improved the availability of essential medicines. […]
Ending the Game of Chance: Improving Access to Essential Medicines in Nigeria with Better Data Use
Location: Africa
Strengthening Quality of Essential Day-of-Birth Care Services at Health Centers in Ethiopia
This poster illustrates the phased approach to address quality of care to improve maternal and newborn health services in Ethiopian facilities. It includes details on methods used, results, and recommendations. […]
MCSP Nigeria Technical Brief: Gender
This three-page brief illuminates MCSP’s works to improve the delivery of gender-sensitive, respectful care, and to ensure equitable access to reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health services by addressing gender-related barriers to delivering high-quality care across Kogi and Ebonyi States in Nigeria. […]
Qualitative Assessment of Family Planning and Immunization Service Integration in Malawi: Dowa and Ntchisi Districts
In Malawi, at the policy level, maternal and child health services are integrated as part of the Essential Health Package; however, in practice, this integration has not been fully realized. Family planning (FP) and immunization services have been provided largely in parallel, according to different schedules and by different providers. To optimize health contacts and […]
MCSP Madagascar Brief: Improving Quality of Maternal, Newborn, and Postpartum Family Planning Services
This eight-page brief illuminates MCSP’s support to the Madagascar Ministry of Health to strengthen the quality of maternal, newborn, and postpartum family planning care in primary health centers and hospitals in 16 regions for improved health outcomes for women and newborns. To download the brief, click here. […]
In Madagascar, Respectful Care & Family Planning Go Hand-in-Hand
Providing personalized care and establishing trust prove invaluable in leading women to an informed family planning choice. […]
MCSP Nigeria (MNCH Program) Technical Brief
This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s work to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and postpartum family planning care in Nigeria. […]
MCSP Mozambique Program Brief: Quality Improvement
This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s quality improvement (QI) work in Mozambique is to improve key reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes by ensuring that services are safe, effective, timely, respectful, coordinated and equitable. The program builds leadership and capacity of the Ministry of Health for QI at the national level and in Nampula and Sofala […]
Malaria in Pregnancy Country Profiles
This series of 12 malaria in pregnancy (MiP) country profiles illuminates the current status of MiP programming in US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) countries with a focus on the progress achieved in ensuring intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) coverage among pregnant women. The profiles explore progress toward attaining targets, updates to countries’ […]
Two Promising Social Accountability Approaches to Improve Health in Malawi: Community Score Cards, and National Health Budget Consultation, Analysis and Advocacy
This document summarizes two social accountability approaches that have been applied in Malawi for over a decade, with measurable successes. The authors’ intent is to further promote the engagement of civil society to strengthen national health systems, and to share useful experiences more broadly with colleagues within USAID as well as the wider global health […]
