Our aim is ambitious: to ensure every Tanzanian child is safe from vaccine-preventable diseases. […]
Category: Africa
You can’t treat what you don’t see: Valuing child health data collection in Mozambique
In Mozambique, the introduction of a new child health registration book has been a crucial step in ensuring the availability of quality child health data to support decision making. […]
Across Africa, Data Dashboards in Health Facilities are Improving Decision Making
How do we encourage better use of quality data for decision making? This question is at the heart of MCSP’s efforts to improve access to and quality of RMNCH services at community and facility levels. […]
Living in the In-Between: Learning from Egypt’s Growing Pains
As Egypt transitions to “developed,” the social and political life of the country is rapidly moving to meet global standards. Every country on this path will need to balance traditional thinking with new ideas about health, wellbeing, prosperity, and gender. […]
When a Gender Expert’s Friend Experiences Partner Violence
Growing up, I had a friend named Chinyere. Like every other young girl in the neighborhood, she had great dreams and aspirations. […]
Exploring cause and effect: Use of contribution analysis to describe intervention impact
Grounded in well-articulated theories of change, contribution analysis gives us a way to understand whether and how interventions supported by a program may have caused or contributed to changes in outcomes. […]
Students Need Protection, Too: Family Planning Targets Future Nurses & Midwives in Liberia
MCSP is keeping unwanted pregnancies from ending the education of Liberia’s future health professionals. […]
Disease Surveillance is Key to Freeing Madagascar from Polio
With training on vaccine preventable disease surveillance provided by MCSP, providers in Madagascar are contributing to national polio eradication efforts. […]
February 12th – How to Strengthen Nutrition within the Health Platform: Programmatic Evidence and Experience from Three Countries
Join us February 12th to discuss evidence and experiences strengthening integration of nutrition into the health platform in Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania. […]
From Life-Threatening Pregnancy to Happy Birth Day: Mozambican Providers Act Quickly to Save Lives
MCSP-trained providers in Mozambique stabilize a pregnant woman suffering from eclampsia and refer her for lifesaving care. […]
