MCSP conducted qualitative research in Kogi, Ebonyi, Bauchi, Cross Rivers, Ondo, and Sokoto States in Nigeria to understand the reproductive, maternal, and newborn health needs of first-time young parents. Kogi Research Brief Ebonyi Research Brief Bauchi Research Brief Cross Rivers Research Brief Ondo Research Brief Sokoto Research Brief […]
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Building the capacity to manage and use of data for supply chain decision making in Nigeria improved the availability of essential medicines. […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s works with global stakeholders, governments, and partners in more than 30 countries to improve coverage and quality of high-impact, person-centered reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care. […]
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This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s work to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and postpartum family planning care in Nigeria. […]
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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 […]
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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’ […]
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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 […]
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MCSP conducted an exploratory geospatial analysis using multiple geospatial data sources to understand inequities in access to maternal health services in two Nigerian states. The program looked at the relative socioeconomic position (SEP) of the population surrounding MCSP-supported facilities – as measured by a proxy indicator from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) modeled surfaces for […]
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