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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Ending the Game of Chance: Improving Access to Essential Medicines in Nigeria with Better Data Use
Building the capacity to manage and use of data for supply chain decision making in Nigeria improved the availability of essential medicines. […]
Qualitative Assessment of Family Planning and Immunization Service Integration in Malawi: Dowa and Ntchisi Districts
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 […]
MCSP Madagascar Brief: Improving Quality of Maternal, Newborn, and Postpartum Family Planning Services
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. […]
MCSP Synthesis Brief: Improving Quality of Care at Scale for Better RMNCH Outcomes
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. […]
MCSP Nigeria (MNCH Program) Technical Brief
This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s work to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and postpartum family planning care in Nigeria. […]
MCSP Mozambique Program Brief: Quality Improvement
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 […]
Malaria in Pregnancy Country Profiles
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’ […]
Two Promising Social Accountability Approaches to Improve Health in Malawi: Community Score Cards, and National Health Budget Consultation, Analysis and Advocacy
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 […]
Using Geospatial Analysis to Better Serve Disadvantaged Program Beneficiaries in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Lessons from an Exploratory Analysis in Nigeria
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 […]