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Annual Report 2017: Stronger Health Systems, Healthier Families and Communities

We build strong health systems—systems that offer every individual access to high-quality, affordable health services. Systems that can stop an epidemic in its tracks. Systems that can withstand the shocks of an economic meltdown or a conflict.

Statement Of Revenues, Program Expenses, and Changes in Fund Balance, Fiscal Year 2017

Year Ended June 30, 2017, drawn from audited financial statements.

Technical assistance for development of strategy on bioequivalence of medicines

The purpose of this assignment is to support the MoH and provide international expertise to develop a strategy on improving regulations on the bioequivalence of generic medicines in line with European Union (EU) practices.

The Building Success Series

Building Success is a series of guides offering practical, concrete, and innovative approaches that have proven effective in strengthening the response to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Nigeria. Each of the four guides can stand alone, but they will be most effective if used as components of an integrated package.

IRS Form 990 - Management Sciences for Health 2017

Return of Organization Exempt from Income TaxUnder section 501(c), 527, or 4947(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code

Community Health Volunteers Improve Quality of Care in Madagascar through Digital Health

Community health volunteers (CHVs) in Madagascar serve as first-line health care providers for many communities located more than five kilometers from a basic health center (CSB). They provide routine services for family planning and maternal, newborn, and child health, and refer patients for appropriate higher-level services.

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.

The MSH Approach to Improving Global Health Security: An Investment Case

Infectious disease outbreaks devastate communities and cost the world $60 billion a year in response efforts—matching the toll of wars and natural disasters in terms of economic impact and lives lost. Local preparedness is the key to stopping outbreaks at the source.

Taking Supply Information Systems to the Next Level: Regional Collaboration in TB Medicines Supply Chain

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in the regions of East, Central, and Southern Africa (ECSA). Because TB is an airborne disease, its transmission is facilitated by the movement of people across internal and national borders.

Integrated Health Services Activity Baseline Study

The overall objective of this baseline study is to help gather or generate information as a point of reference on the health condition of the population living in the project supported health zones, the management and supervision capacity of health services decentralized entities, the situation and barriers for access to health services, the quality of health services, and health knowledge,

Knowledge Management Indicator Library

The Knowledge Management Indicator Library is a comprehensive resource for measuring knowledge management in global public health with a searchable database of generalized indicators. The library can be used by knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, communication, and program management professionals as they manage and share knowledge.

Improving Leadership, Management, and Governance to Strengthen Health Systems

Over six years (2011-2017), the USAID-funded Leadership, Management, and Governance (LMG) Project strengthened health systems to deliver more responsive services to more people.

From Lessons to Action: Expanding TB Contact Investigation across Five Afghanistan Provinces

The primary goal of the Challenge TB (CTB) project in Afghanistan is to assist the NTP to reach its strategic objective of increasing TB case notifications by at least 8% annually through comprehensive TB care and prevention activities.

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.

Innovative one-stop shop approach for TB/HIV integration in Ethiopia

In high TB- and HIV-burden settings, the two diseases reinforce each other and share common risk factors. Single, categorical services provided to persons with multiple, related risk factors miss opportunities to diagnose, treat, and prevent TB and/or HIV.

Improving Human Resources Management in Health Sector to Improve Health

The Jhpiego-led, USAID-funded Strengthening Human Resources for Health (HRH) project has focused on long-term and medium-term goals for health sector human resources development priorities earmarked by health sector leaders and policy makers in Ethiopia.

The Champion Community approach in DRC: A gold standard for community mobilization

The Champion Community approach, which is owned and sustained at the health area level, was established by the Integrated Health Project (IHP) and IHPplus to encourage community members to decide on their health priorities and to teach them to sensitize their communities on those priority health issues.

Strengthening Health Data Reporting and Improving Data Quality Use by Integrating National and Project DHIS2 Instances: Experiences from the DRC

The availability of timely, high-quality health data remains a challenge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite some significant progress. DRC is a vast, landlocked country where the distances between health facilities, especially at different levels of the health system, are often great.

Reach Every Household with Family Planning: Door-to-Door Mini-Campaigns to Promote Contraceptive Methods

The DRC National Strategic Plan 2014-2020 outlines a multi-sectoral vision that aims to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence to 19% and provide access to and use of modern contraceptive methods to at least 2.1 million women by 2020.

Implementing the Helping Mothers Survive and Helping Babies Breathe Approaches in Bukavu and Luiza

In its National Health Development Plan 2016-2020, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) aims to reduce maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 846 to 548 and to reduce infant and child mortality from 104 to 60 deaths per 1,000 births.

Simplified treatment of sick infants at risk of possible serious bacterial infection

To treat infections in newborns and young infants (age 0 to 59 days), WHO recommends transferring them to a hospital and administering a regimen combining two injectable antibiotics, namely, penicillin or ampicillin, plus gentamicin for seven to ten days.

Quality of care indicators for maternal and newborn health: A study in eight health zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Strengthening information systems to support health data use is a critical component of quality improvement. In the past, research on quality of care has focused on the availability of resources and implementation of clinical guidelines, while often ignoring the regular metrics and monitoring systems used to inform decision making and manage improvement initiatives.

DRC IHPplus Fact Sheet on Family Planning

The Integrated Health Project Plus (IHPplus) was implemented in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from June 2015 to June 2018 by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and Overseas Strategic Consulting, Ltd. (OSC), under a subcontract via Pathfinder/Evidence to Action.