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Linking the Community to the Facility: Strengthening Services for People Living with HIV through Community Counselors in Angola

HFA works in support of the Government of Angola’s strategic plan to accelerate early HIV diagnosis and linkage to care through implementation of the Busca Activa Consentida Através do Caso Indice (BACCI) or index case testing and tracing (ICTT).

Index Case Testing in Angola Contributes to Increased HIV Case Finding

In support of the government of Angola's efforts to maintain the country’s relatively low HIV prevalence, MSH, under USAID Angola’s Health For All (HFA) Project (2017–2019) helped to establish a sustainable model for providing high-quality HIV and AIDS services through the prevention, care, and treatment continuum.To accelerate early HIV diagnosis and linkage to care, HFA support

Strengthening Services for People Living with HIV: Building an Effective, Integrated TB/HIV Approach in Angola

Until recently, TB and HIV have been treated separately under Angola’s National TB Control Program (NCTB) and the National Institute for the Fight Against AIDS (INLS).In support of TB/HIV service integration, the Health for All (HFA) project provided coordination and advocacy at the national level to align NCTB and INLS goals, infrastructural support to facilities to ensure that they have th

Empowerment Builds Capacity for Stronger, Healthier Communities

This report covers the life of project results of the USAID-funded Integrated Health Project Plus (IHPplus) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and Overseas Strategic Consulting, Ltd.

Report: HEAL TB Summary

From 2011–16, the HEAL TB project supported Ethiopia's Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in Amhara and Oromia regions to improve comprehensive TB services, including finding and treating TB in children, adults, and special populations; expanding multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) diagnosis and treatment; integrating TB and HIV services; improving laboratory diagnostics and reporting; and s

Reaching Vulnerable Populations in Afghanistan: Addressing TB among People Who Use Drugs

Afghanistan accounts for two-thirds of the global area under opium poppy cultivation and produces 70 percent of the world’s opiates.

Reaching the Three 90s: Establishing a Sustainable Model for HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in Angola

The Health for All (Saúde para Todos) Project in Angola, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and led by Population Services International (PSI), was launched in January 2017 to support the government’s efforts to increase quality health service delivery in the country.

Cost Revenue Analysis Tool Plus

CORE Plus training course conducted for Syrian NGOs in Turkey, 2017. Photo Credit: Steven Collins/MSHPURPOSETo achieve universal health coverage it is essential to know the cost of services so that sufficient resources can be provided for good quality of care.

A Vision for Health: Performance-Based Financing in Rwanda

Final Report of the Rwanda HIV/Performance-Based financing ProjectRwanda has caught the world’s attention. It is healing from civil war and the horrors of the 1994 genocide and forging a new identity as a peaceful, democratic, and unified nation.

Strengthening Health Systems with Health Care Financing

Determining the cost of health services is an essential step toward strengthening health systems and working toward universal health coverage.

Modelling the Cost of Community Health Services in Sierra Leone: the Results of Piloting a New Planning and Costing Tool

In February and March 2016, a team of MSH staff and consultants collaborated with the MOHS,UNICEF/Sierra Leone, and other stakeholders to collect data for piloting the methodology and tool.MSH staff conducted interviews and collected data at all levels of the health system, including visitsto health facilities in two districts where facility staff, CHW supervisors, and CHWs were interviewed.MSH st

Project Report: The Development of a Tool to Help Plan and Cost Community Health Services

MSH designed and piloted this methodology and tool in Malawi and Sierra Leone, countries that were selected given the important role that community health workers play within each of the countries' health systems.

Health Systems Strengthening: Stronger Health Systems, Healthier Families and Communities

This 4-page brochure on health systems strengthening describes how MSH partners with countries to build strong, resilient, sustainable health systems that can deliver universal health coverage—equitable, affordable access to high-quality health services for all who need them.

Toward Building Resilient Pharmaceutical Systems

SIAPS Final Report

Empowering Women with Access to Savings, Credit, and Health Messages

Technical Highlight

Five Years of Health Impact, 10 Stories of Success

We are pleased to share this booklet that summarizes 10 of the best stories we’ve collected from the field. These narratives are a legacy to Madagascar’s health system and for future public health interventions in the country.

MTaPS Pharmaceutical Financing Fact Sheet

USAID supports strategies to improve pharmaceutical-sector financing, including resource mobilization, allocation, and use.

Rwanda Health Systems Strengthening Project Final Report

Over the past two decades, Rwanda has realized impressive declines in preventable child and maternal mortality, serving as an example of what is possible through committed, collective action.

Establishing a Health Sector-wide Staff Savings and Loan Association to Improve Staff Retention in Rwanda

A key challenge identified by a study on health sector staff retention, conducted by the USAID-funded Rwanda Health Systems Strengthening Project in 2017, was the lack of access to credit at a reasonable interest rate from commercial banks for building a home, purchasing essential items or meeting emergency expenses.

Integrating Community Based Health Insurance into the Rwanda Social Security Board to Build a Strong Foundation for Universal Health Coverage

One of the most successful interventions designed to provide universal health coverage to the citizens of Rwanda has been the establishment of the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Scheme. This provides a basic package of primary care and referral services through a wide network public and some private health facilities at an affordable cost for those who can pay.

Developing a health care workforce requirement and recruitment plan in Tanzania

The Technical Support Services Project (TSSP) worked with the Tanzania Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly, and Children (MoHCDGEC) to analyze data to project future health care employment needs, including current and future vacancies, and create a five-year recruitment and staffing plan.

Deliver for Good: Improve Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition

In spite of substantial advances in maternal and newborn health over recent decades, roughly 300,000 girls and women still die due to pregnancy-related complications every year. At present, the global community largely agrees on what needs to be done to prevent these deaths and improve the health and wellbeing of women and babies.

Eliminating HIV and AIDS

Strengthening health systems is the core of MSH's response to HIV and AIDS. We build the capacity of public and private sectors worldwide to prevent, treat, and manage HIV and AIDS and build systems for health that deliver gender-responsive, high-quality HIV services that are adapted to the populations we serve.

Strengthening antenatal care for indigenous women in Guatemala

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is implementing a project to strengthen high-quality, culturally appropriate antenatal care (ANC) for indigenous women in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

Mali Keneya Jemu Kan Project Fact Sheet

The objective of the USAID-funded Keneya Jemu Kan (KJK) project (communication and health prevention) is to promote key healthy behaviors and increase the demand for and use of high-impact health services and commodities. As the capacity building lead, MSH’s role has been to build the organizational leadership, management, and governance (L+M+G) capacities of public sector and health no