MCSP, known in Egypt as Improving Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition, or IMCHN, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population, undertook a two-pronged approach to strengthen the Raedat Refiat (RR) community health worker cadre program: develop a new national strategy and an updated training program to target RR knowledge and skills development to […]
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HelloMama – End of Project Report
MCSP’s HelloMama project operated in Nigeria with the goal of improving the health outcomes for pregnant women, newborns, children, and families in Nigeria through age- and stage-based mobile messaging that complemented the efforts of frontline health care workers (HCWs). Over a period of three years, the project coordinated with a consortium of international partners, Pathfinder […]
Assessment of Antenatal Care Including Malaria in Pregnancy in Three Regions of Myanmar
As part of MCSP’s work, an assessment of antenatal care (ANC) services was conducted to better understand the current state of services related to the prevention and treatment of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) during ANC. The assessment results are described in this report. The goal of the assessment was to inform the development or revision, […]
Nigeria Maternal Newborn Child Health – End of Project Final Report
MCSP in Nigeria was to contribute to the reduction of maternal, newborn, and child mortality by improving the quality and use of maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Ebonyi and Kogi states. Over a period of 4 years, MCSP worked with several key stakeholders within and outside Nigeria to plan and implement a wide […]
Tanora Mitsinjo Taranaka – Lessons Learned from an Integrated Approach to Increase Use of Health Services by First-Time Young Parents in Madagascar
MCSP supported the Ministry of Public Health in Madagascar to reduce maternal and newborn mortality over the course of its implementation period (2014–2019). The program interventions, which covered the 16 USAID priority regions, aligned with the Roadmap for the Campaign to Accelerate the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality, especially Strategy Three: “Providing essential integrated […]
Better Care for Nigerian Women and Children
Between 2014 and 2018, MCSP collaborated with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), Ebonyi and Kogi State Ministry of Health (SMOH), professional associations and other key stakeholders to improve the delivery and utilization of quality maternal, newborn and child health services in selected health facilities and communities in Ebonyi and Kogi states. […]
How to Strengthen Nutrition into the Health Platform: Programmatic Evidence and Experience from Low and Middle Income Countries
MCSP launched their special issue Maternal and Child Nutrition journal supplement “How to Strengthen Nutrition into the Health Platform: Programmatic Evidence and Experience from Low and Middle Income Countries” on February 12, 2019. The supplement includes evidence and experiences on how to strengthen integration of nutrition into the health platform from a health systems perspective. […]
Support Tool for Improving Quality of Antenatal Care
This tool outlines evidence-based, high-impact antenatal care interventions and quality of care measures (e.g., input, process and outcome indicators) for use by policymakers and program managers working to improve quality of antenatal care for pregnant women in low-resource settings. Interested stakeholders may include policymakers, regional/district public health managers, health care workers, facility managers, members of […]
Kenya Program Briefs
MCSP used evidence-based interventions to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Kenya. The eight briefs below summarize the interventions. Child Health Community Health Programs Family Planning Human Capacity Development Malaria Maternal and Newborn Health Nutrition WASH […]
Accroître l’utilisation des services de santé par les jeunes parents à travers l’approche intégrée de SRMN: Leçons d’une démonstration de faisabilité à Madagascar
The poster highlights increasing the use of health services amongst first time young parents in Madagascar. […]