This midline assessment report analyzes the effectiveness of integrated community case management (iCCM) in reducing the infant mortality rate in Bondo, Kenya. Community health volunteers delivered iCCM in addition to the care services already in place. The authors make suggestions for how best to improve iCCM and further reduce infant mortality going forward. […]
Serving as a progress update on commitments made at the 2012 Child Survival Call to Action, this report focuses primarily on the 24 USAID priority countries. […]
USAID’s predecessor flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to assist in the scale up of high impact interventions in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH). This brief summarizes the results of the Program’s scale up experience and […]
As one of the Agency’s 24 priority countries for ending preventable child and maternal deaths, Rwanda receives support through programs in health, economic development, education, and governance. […]
Raising the status of women and girls makes a more stable world — and these investments are modest in relation to the dramatic returns they yield. […]
As these 15-year objectives are pending adoption by the United Nations this month, we are already asking: What countries are most likely to achieve them? […]
mPowering features our take on key resources in mHealth, global health, and technology for development in their “Top Five Reads” series. […]
Health workers in Pakistan may now be able to offer breastfeeding women more, longer-acting options for family planning immediately after birth. […]
MCSP Director discusses U.S. policy options to advance maternal, neonatal and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa at an event hosted by the office of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. […]
Since passing the 500 day countdown in August, the global public health community has talked a lot about what it will take to meet the ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). And one thing is clear: achieving MDG 4 – to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 – will not be realized without better addressing pneumonia, the leading killer in children under 5. […]
