Young and first-time parents in Madagascar learn to value and safeguard their family’s health thanks to MCSP’s TMT project. […]
In Madagascar, a Young Father Steps Up His Role in Family Health
Location: Africa
Mistreatment of Women in Public Health Facilities of Ethiopia
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Ethiopia set a transformational agenda to improve the lives of women and children. To achieve this transformation Ethiopia has prioritized developing compassionate, respectful and caring health care providers. There are limited information on the status of mistreatment of women in Ethiopian health facilities. In 2016, the MCSP Strengthening BEmONC […]
A Blended Learning Approach for Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Training in Ethiopia
Many countries are considering alternative approaches to conventional in-service clinical training because of high costs and disruption to service delivery when providers are pulled away from health facilities. Research on alternative and cost effective blended training approaches moves us closer to the objective of building competencies of health providers and minimizing the impact of necessary […]
What to Know about Your CCEOP Application and Deploying Cold Chain Equipment
With one in five children in low- and middle-income countries still not fully vaccinated and thus at risk of preventable, life-threatening illnesses, immunization programs are under pressure to increase coverage and improve performance and efficiency. Populations are growing and immunization supply chains (iSCs) are facing constraints in reliable, optimal and sufficient cold chain equipment (CCE) […]
Strengthening Comprehensive Council Health Planning to Increase Immunization Coverage
In Tanzania, MCSP provides technical support to the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly, and Children focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children who are most in need have equitable access to high-quality health care services that save lives. In 2014, based on earlier work supported by MCSP’s predecessor project, the Maternal […]
Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations
In low- and middle-income countries, unsatisfactory vaccination coverage often reflects services that are not sufficiently accessible, convenient, reliable, or friendly. It may also reflect a lack of public understanding or trust in vaccination and/or vaccination services. Additionally, in developing countries, various sociocultural factors affect the likelihood that families make the effort to get their children […]
In Nigeria, Faith in Health Care is Saving Lives
In Nigeria, faith-based communities are a close ally in MCSP’s fight to improve maternal and child health. […]
MCSP Mozambique Program Briefs
MCSP has partnered with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique to introduce and support high-impact, sustainable reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in the below areas: Child Health Community Health Gender Immunization Maternal and Newborn Health Malaria Nutrition Quality Improvement Reproductive Health: Cervical Cancer Prevention and Family Planning Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Water, Sanitation […]
Polio Eradication through Community Approaches
Between 2014 and 2015, Madagascar had 11 confirmed cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), signifying challenges with the routine immunization system that urgently needed attention. In response to this polio outbreak, the national Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) and partners implemented 13 national and sub-national supplemental polio immunization campaigns and conducted a series of five external […]
Effective Interventions to Strengthen Health Systems after the Epidemic
This brief outlines MCSP’s approach to Ebola virus disease (EVD) prevention, response, and recovery in Guinea, Liberia, and Ghana (Ghana did not have any active cases of EVD but was classified as a high-risk country due to its geographical proximity to the epidemic). MCSP’s interventions were intended to build resilience and self-reliance in each country […]
