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    Posted on: July 6, 2017 - Case Study

    Increasing male partner participation in PMTCT in Burundi


    En français USAID and PEPFAR, through the USAID ASSIST Project, support Burundi’s Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS (MSPLS) to improve the quality of PMTCT services in Burundi. The project helped form quality improvement (QI) teams in ...

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    Posted on: July 6, 2017 - Case Study

    Improving Newborn Resuscitation Outcomes through the Establishment of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Skills Labs at Pope John Paul’s Hospital Aber (PJPHA) in Oyam District, Mid-Northern Uganda


    Birth asphyxia is a major cause of neonatal mortality in Uganda and similarly at Pope John Paul’s Hospital Aber (PJPHA). At PJHPA, during baseline assessment, 0% of the babies born with birth asphyxia were successfully resuscitated (discharged alive) in ...

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    Posted on: July 5, 2017 - Case Study

    Addressing the 3rd 90 Gap through Integrated Health Delivery Camps in 4 Health Facilities in Nwoya District, Uganda


    In 2014, the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS set ambitious goals to eliminate the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2020 through the 90-90-90 three-pronged approach. The Uganda Ministry of Health together with implementing partners, including USAID ASSIST, adopted the ...

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    Posted on: July 5, 2017 - Case Study

    Functionalizing a Hospital Maternal and Perinatal Death Review (MPDR) Committee: An Experience of Anaka Hospital in Nwoya District, Northern Uganda


    Uganda’s maternal mortality rate is 438/100,000 live births with most of the maternal deaths resulting from hemorrhage and obstructed labor, while the neonatal mortality rate is 27/1,000 live births with the majority of deaths resulting from infections, ...

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    Posted on: May 16, 2017 - Case Study

    Using a scientific approach to improve early identification of complicated labour cases


    In May 2016, the head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (SSMCH) in Dhaka, Bangladesh initiated an effort to use improvement methods to increase the early identification of labour complications ...

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    Posted on: May 3, 2017 - Case Study

    Améliorer la participation des partenaires masculins des femmes enceintes dans la PTME pour augmenter l’utilisation des services PTME au Burundi


    In English Au Burundi la pandémie du VIH/SIDA est une préoccupation grandissante et constitue une menace et un défi majeur de santé publique et le Burundi, fait partie des 22 pays prioritaires pour l’élimination de la transmission du VIH de la mère à l ...

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    Posted on: May 2, 2017 - Case Study

    Improving retention of clients on antiretroviral therapy through expert patients: Involving people living with HIV in Alebtong District, Northern Uganda


    The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Integrated Approach to HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment (IMAI) recommends adoption of people living with HIV (PLHIV) as community health workers (CHWs) to track patients who have not appeared at the clinic for at ...

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    Posted on: April 26, 2017 - Case Study

    Intégration de l’amélioration de la qualité dans les soins et traitement VIH/SIDA dans la Province du Lualaba en République Démocratique du Congo afin de retenir les PVVIH sous traitement Anti rétroviral


    Au cours des années fiscales 2015-2016, le projet ASSIST de l’USAID financer par PEPFAR a apporté une assistance technique pour l’amélioration de la rétention des PVVIH sous TAR dans 10 formations sanitaires de la province du Lualaba en collaboration avec ...

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    Posted on: April 7, 2017 - Case Study

    Fathers helping babies survive: A case study from Ganesh Das Hospital, Shillong, Meghalaya


    The USAID ASSIST Project works in Meghalaya to improve the quality of newborn care at Ganesh Das Hospital, one of the busiest hospitals in the state. Of the 1,800 babies admitted to the Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of GDH each year, the majority are ...

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    Posted on: March 14, 2017 - Case Study

    Improving Access to Viral Load Monitoring through Viral Load Camps in Northern Uganda


    To ensure viral load suppression is being monitored for people living with HIV, the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems project (ASSIST) is working with the district health offices in northern Uganda to increase access to viral load ...

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