Globally, immunization prevents an estimated 2–3 million deaths among under-5 children, yet in Nigeria, only 25% of children ages 12–23 months are fully immunized. There are also marked disparities in the uptake of immunizations, largely attributable to the context within which families live and seek health care. The authors assessed the individual and state determinants […]
The Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria; Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Initiative (PRRINN-MNCH) was a project funded by the UK Department of International Development and the Norwegian government that used an integrated approach to strengthen health services and increase community demand for and access to quality health care. Baseline and endline population-based […]
In April 2016, the largest and fastest globally-coordinated project in the history of immunization was carried out in 155 countries and territories. Known as “the switch,” this activity entailed replacing trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), which protects against all three strains of the poliovirus, with the bivalent form (bOPV) which protects against two strains, types […]
The persistence and periodic resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases have raised questions about the determinants of poor immunization coverage. In Sub-Saharan Africa, traditional health practitioners (THPs) play a major role in providing health care and health education, particularly in rural areas where Western health care is unavailable. The project, Immunization Advocacy: Saving Lives of Africa’s Children, […]
To help rural, poverty-stricken populations living in a mountainous area of Honduras overcome geographic and financial barriers to health care, ChildFund set out to bring high-quality, cost-effective interventions to these communities through the establishment of community health units (unidades comunitarios, abbreviated UCOS, in Spanish) in 2009. The UCOS used physical structures that were built using […]
Commentary from MCSP staff published in the June 11, 2016 online Lancet on the “inappropriate” stereotyping and generalizing about nongovernmental organizations. To read the one-page correspondence, click here. […]
This MCSP co-authored article, published in the Pan African Medical Journal, highlights the burden of the 2014-15 cholera outbreak in Malawi, and successes and challenges of the country’s oral cholera vaccine campaign conducted in March and April 2015. To read the open access article, click here. […]
This operational guidance presents evidence-based recommendations for in-service training of health care providers affiliated with MCSP. It also provides illustrative country examples of innovative approaches to address common challenges to clinical training. This guidance can be used in MCSP country programs to strengthen competency-based training to increase knowledge and skills of health care providers, contributing […]
This four-page brief illuminates the importance of capturing and sharing lessons learned from MCSP country efforts and global evidence on efforts to strengthen human capacity development. […]
These resources act as guides to help program planners and implementers consider the many elements in a particular technical area of the Child Survival and Health Grants Program. They are not an official policy for practice; rather, they are basic, everyday summaries to be used as field reference documents. They may also be accessed in […]
