Baseline report from Rwanda. […]
Rwanda Health Facility Assessment Core Questionnaire Adapted from SARA and SPA tools
Location: Africa
Mock Scenarios and Hands-on Trainings Lead to Big Improvements at Liberian Hospital
Hospital staff draws on their own experience to develop workable solutions and improve the quality of care for women and newborns. […]
Tanzania Reduces Infant Mortality with Lifesaving Vaccines
“Let’s go to the village and find this child,” said Nurse Chubwa, who is helping to combat disproportionately low rates of vaccination in three regions of the country. […]
Strengthening the Routine Immunization System through a Reaching Every Child-Quality Improvement Approach in Uganda
This how-to guide, based on experience and lessons learned from introducing Reaching Every Child-Quality Improvement (REC-QI) in Uganda and Ethiopia, provides guidance on how to carry out REC-QI. It supplements, but does not replace, the current national REC strategy. Staff from the Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization, hospitals, district health teams, and health sub-districts […]
Evaluation of the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Initiative Scale-Up in Malawi
The primary aim of this evaluation was to assess the quality of care and coverage of the Helping Babies Breathe newborn resuscitation intervention at the facility level in Malawi. The results will help to inform and guide the ongoing scale-up of this program in Malawi and in other countries. […]
Vaccination coverage and timely vaccination with valid doses in Malawi
This MCSP co-authored article, published in the journal Vaccine Reports, highlights the results of a cluster vaccination coverage survey conducted in two districts in Malawi: Dowa and Ntchisi. The survey measured the vaccination coverage of children 12–23 months old and identified factors impacting the utilization of vaccination services. To read the full article, click here. […]
Reaching Every Community Using Quality Improvement (REC-QI): Mapping to support routine immunization microplanning in Uganda
The success of immunization depends largely on the ability to reach every child with vaccination services. That, in turn, requires that health facilities have current information on where even the most remote and underserved communities live so that plans to reach them can be prepared. This document describes a process developed by MCSP/Uganda for accurately […]
Integrated community case management of childhood illness is happening in Bondo, western Kenya
“When I was discouraged and wanted to quit, they encouraged and mentored me until I was confident in assessing and treating sick children,” said an MCSP-trained community health volunteer. […]
The breast and beyond: Improving feeding practices in Kenya
The country has made remarkable strides in ensuring its children are exclusively breastfed, but work remains to improve infant and young child feeding practices. […]
Maternal and Child Survival Program: Zambia
Final report for the MCSP/Zambia program: July 2014 to June 2015. […]
