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Posted on: June 25, 2017 - Short Report
Tanzania Partnership for HIV-Free Survival (PHFS) Implementation Experience and Change Package
Since September 2013, the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project has been working with other USAID partners and UN agencies in Tanzania including EGPAF, Delloite – Tunajali, Baylor – Tanzania, JHPEIGO, FHI 360/ Food and ... -
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Posted on: June 19, 2017 - Short Report
VMMC Continuous Quality Improvement and External Quality Assessment Toolkit
The VMMC Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and External Quality Assessment (EQA) Toolkit was developed to help VMMC service providers, site managers, implementing partners, and program leaders to understand CQI and EQA methods and how they can be ... -
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Posted on: June 5, 2017 - Short Report
USAID ASSIST Project: Overview of Zika Activities
As part of the Zika virus epidemic emergency response, ASSIST is providing intensive assistance to the Ministries of Health and Social Security Administrations in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Activities supported include: ... -
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Posted on: June 4, 2017 - Short Report
Improving Maternal and Newborn Care in Northern Uganda Change Package
A synthesis of the most robust, high-impact and evidence-based changes that resulted in facility and community-level improvements in the processes and systems of providing maternal and newborn care services Uganda’s maternal and newborn mortality remains ... -
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Posted on: May 31, 2017 - Short Report
A guide to increasing TB screening amongst the fishing communities: The USAID ASSIST Project's experience from Northern Uganda
In a bid to improve TB case notification in northern Uganda, the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems Project (ASSIST) has undertaken several innovations among which is active TB screening in selected populations. The innovation of TB ... -
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Posted on: May 31, 2017 - Short Report
Improving viral load monitoring at health facilities providing HIV care: Tested changes and guidance from Uganda
UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 Strategy has set treatment targets to help bring to an end the AIDS epidemic by 2020. According to this strategy, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status; 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive ... -
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Posted on: April 14, 2017 - Short Report
Improving community health worker performance and productivity: Findings from USAID-supported studies in Swaziland and Uganda
Community health workers (CHWs) play an essential role in HIV prevention, care, and treatment by improving linkages between those that need care and those that can provide it and by supporting retention in care and self-management for improved clinical ... -
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Posted on: April 14, 2017 - Short Report
Sustaining CHW Programs in the HIV Response: Lessons Learned from the United States
Community health workers (CHWs) have an important role in the HIV response globally, especially to increase coverage, uptake, and retention of HIV services at the community level, to reach the 90-90-90 targets. In HIV-burdened countries, PEPFAR has ... -
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Posted on: March 15, 2017 - Short Report
Improving the Identification of HIV-positive Children in Uganda: Tested changes and how they were implemented
The USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project is working with the Ministry of Health (MOH), districts, implementing partners, and health facilities in Uganda by applying improvement methods to improve HIV care and family ... -
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Posted on: February 16, 2017 - Short Report
JOINT STATEMENT: Improving Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
While major progress has been made over the past two decades to improve mortality outcomes in women and newborn – major disparities remain in survival rates around the time of birth for mothers and infants born in high-, middle- and low-income countries. ...
