Optimal breastfeeding practices reduce neonatal and child morbidity and mortality. Lactating women may experience challenges to early initiation of breastfeeding and maintaining exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of an infant’s life. Yet, there is a gap in evidence with regards to the minimum provider competencies needed to provide counseling and support to […]
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MCSP provides leadership, globally and regionally in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean, on technical issues related to the Zika outbreak response, particularly with regard to the care and support of Zika-affected children and their families. The Zika Trinidad Sub-Award Materials includes a: What is Developmental Delay – Poster What is Developmental Delay – Brochure What Is […]
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Early Childhood development (ECD) is a low-cost intervention that supports young children’s development across physical, cognitive, language and socio-emotional domains. The Global Early Childhood Development Materials includes a: Wall Chart Brochure Parent Manual […]
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The goal of the workshop was to identify key barriers and opportunities for strengthening nutrition services delivered to children under five years of age through routine management of illnesses at the household, community, and primary health care (PHC) facility levels. […]
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This report presents the results of an assessment on the context of national health financing in Uganda—including current financing policies and practices, as well as health financing reforms proposed and in development—to understand the implications that such mechanisms may have on RMNCH services. The assessment employed a combination of desk review, key informant interviews, and […]
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MCSP created WASH and Infection Prevention Control (IPC) Facility Assessment Scorecards to help reduce infections in mothers and children in Nigeria. General Facility Scorecard Labour and Delivery Scorecard Postnatal Care Scorecard Special Newborn Care Criteria Scorecard […]
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Handwashing is a cost-effective intervention that reduces infections in mothers and children. MCSP has created WASH posters in Nigeria to encourage handwashing. Handwashing: Postnatal Caregiver Cord Care Handwashing: Delivery and Postnatal Postnatal Handwashing Handwashing: Delivery in Kogi State Handwashing: Delivery in Ebonyi State Handwashing: Postnatal Ward Entrance […]
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The purpose of this assessment was to understand the usefulness of the Electronic Expanded Programme on Immunization- Integrated Management of Childhood Illness course for mentors in Zambia and the challenges they faced in using the training tool. […]
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MCSP, in collaboration with the Health Data Collaborative (HDC), has led the effort to improve data collection and data use at the community level. These efforts led to the development of the new resource package on Supporting Communities to Use Health Data. This resource package walks users through how to engage data users and producers; […]
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This report details the status of implementation of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in the Dominican Republic (DR) along with key bottlenecks and challenges in KMC implementation and proposed solutions. The objectives of this assessment were to: Assess the status of implementation and scale-up of KMC in the Dominican Republic Assess for gaps and bottlenecks in […]
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