In northern Ethiopia, MCSP is engaging faith leaders in improving maternal, newborn and child health. […]
Ethiopian Faith Leaders Help Prevent Maternal and Newborn Deaths
Location: Africa
In Mozambique, A Mother’s First Child Lives Thanks to Neonatal Resuscitation Training
It was midafternoon when 21-year-old Rosita Filipe arrived at Muxungué Rural Hospital. Now in labor for more than a day, she was weak and in pain. […]
In Guinea, Local Health Teams Learn to Identify and Address Pressing Challenges
In the wake of the Ebola crisis, MCSP is strengthening the capacity of district health managers to take greater ownership of local health system management. […]
Early Childhood Development 0–3 Program in Ghana
Early childhood development (ECD) supports young children’s holistic development across physical, cognitive, language and socio-emotional domains spanning the prenatal stage to early grades. The early years form the foundation for lifelong learning. This brief discusses the MCSP Ghana ECD 0-3 program’s strategic objectives and key accomplishments. […]
Screen and Treat Now
We know how to beat cervical cancer, but 250,000 women still die from the preventable, treatable disease. […]
Reaching Young Women and First-Time Moms with Friendly, Lifesaving Services in Madagascar
MCSP is reaching young and first-time parents with family planning services in Madagascar, which has one of the world’s highest rates of maternal deaths. […]
Assessment of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response Implementation in Rwanda
The Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH) and USAID’s MCSP aimed to document experiences in implementing maternal death review, perinatal death review, and/or integrated maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) processes in Rwanda. Rwanda was one of four countries selected as part of a multi-country assessment of MPDSR processes at the district level. The […]
Evaluation of the Initiative to Strengthen Nurses’ Expanded Programme on Immunization Pre-Service Training in Kenya
In 2008, the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) embarked on a process to strengthen pre-service training for the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) using WHO’s prototype curriculum. Partnering with the WHO, UNICEF and USAID’s Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (later became USAID’s MCSP), the MOH developed an immunization manual for medical and nursing students, […]
MCSP Madagascar Technical Brief: Postpartum Family Planning
This technical brief describes MCSP’s postpartum family planning support in Madagascar. The project has supported the capacity-building of health facilities in 16 regions by upgrading health worker skills and staffing technical equipment, and discusses the positive results garnered from the work. The brief is also available in French. […]
Documentation of REC in Malawi
In October 2016, MCSP began its third year of activities in Malawi, with immunization work focusing on collaboration with the Ministry of Health/Expanded Program on Immunization (MOH/EPI) and partners at the national level; and provision of intensive support for implementing the Reaching Every Child (REC) approach in two low-coverage districts, which were selected from among seven districts in […]
