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Achieving Functional HIV/AIDS Services through Strong Community and Management Support

This issue of The Manager focuses on desiging and improving a package of HIV-related services, using a conceptual framework called the Functional Service Delivery Point. The framework can help managers to identify the characteristics that make HIV-related services functional and to deliver these services with strong community and management support.

Governance of Health Systems and Health Organizations

Governance of Health Systems and Health Organizations is intended to support the important work of the leaders who govern health service delivery organizations.

How to Govern the Health Sector and its Institutions Effectively

This issue of The eManager focuses on governing in the health sector, and presents four effective governing practices and their nine key enablers. It shows how health leaders and managers can contribute to a better-governed institution and, ultimately, improve health services and the health of the people they serve.

Leading and Managing Critical Competencies for Health System Strengthening

People-centered health systems cannot be strengthened without good management and leadership. This publication shows how you, as a manager of a health program or health services, can apply proven practices for managing and leading to address the challenges you face. Leadership and management skills are needed at all levels of the health system.

Mainstreaming Gender Equality into Health Systems

This publication reviews concepts, approaches, and tools that will help change perspectives when designing and implementing policies and programs in health, specifically in relation to gender. The chapter explores the myths and realities regarding gender, and the concept of gender mainstreaming and how to move towards this goal.

Managing Finances and Related Systems

In this publication, we examine aspects of financial management and related office operations systems.

Managing Human Resources

This publication shows that effective human resource management (HRM) is important in any public- or private-sector organization and essential when public health crises collide with workforce shortages.

Managing Information: Monitoring and Evaluation

This publication is a practical guide that you, the manager of a health program or of health services, can use to understand and organize essential practices that will improve the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of health services. It explains the role and function of an effective health information system (HIS).

Managing Medicines and Health Products

The publication outlines the essential elements of managing supplies at the district and subdistrict levels and in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), provides practical guidance in assessing and improving the supply system at that level, and offers a range of other technical and managerial resources and references that will enable you to improve your management skills and study the areas that i

Managing Health Service Delivery

This publication explores the ways in which the health service delivery system interfaces with and builds on the management systems discussed in the earlier chapters of this handbook. You will see how improving the management and leadership of the health service delivery system improves access to and quality of services.

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

This publication attempts to simplify planning by introducing and defining a range of essential long- and short-term planning processes that managers of health programs or health services should implement. We focus on the primary organizational planning process: the development of a strategic plan and its conversion into an operational plan.

MSH Nigeria Newsletter

This newsletter, pubilshed in September 2015, highlights the visit of MSH Board Chairman, Lawrence Fish, to Nigeria in May; the six MSH abstracts that were accepted and presented at the IAS 2015 Conference in Vancouver, Canada in July, and a detailed story on the PLAN-Health end-of-project dissemination meetings.

Leaders Who Govern

This book is designed to help readers explore, master, and apply the practices of good governance in the context of health. The principles and practices discussed in this book apply to most types of organizations and also to sectors beyond health. Readers can use this guide to shape how their investment in smarter governance within the health system.

ABCs for Managers Who Lead

ABCs for Managers Who Lead is a simple and user-friendly lexicon for busy managers who lead. It draws from the combined experience and knowledge of MSH staff who work in different public health programs and projects around the world. The publication was produced through crowdsourcing by our colleagues from far and wide.

Management of Medicines Benefit Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Settings

The Management of Medicines Benefit Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Settings manual serves as a primer for managers, government officials, or consultants who are tasked by a government, health insurance plan, or other institution with designing or implementing a medicines benefit program.

Quantification of Health Commodities: RMNCH Supplement

Forecasting Consumption of Select Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Commodities This guide will assist program managers, service providers, and technical experts when conducting a quantification of commodity needs for the 13 reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health commodities prioritized by the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children.

Improving Medicines Access and Use for Child Health—A Guide to Developing Interventions

"Improving Medicines Access and Use for Child Health—A Guide to Developing Interventions" represents an up-to-date and practical resource for those developing interventions to improve access to and use of medicines for child illness. It targets groups working in community organizations, health facilities, and district health offices, or within larger health systems.

Regional Networks and Associations: Results from a Landscape Analysis of Regional Health Sector Actors in Africa: Comparative Advantages, Challenges, and Opportunities

Despite the growing international trend towards increased regional multilateralism, integration, and cooperation in health and other sectors, there is a limited body of literature examining the relationships, power dynamics, limitations, and strategic advantages of regional bodies.

Ebola and Other Disease Outbreaks: Implications for Economic Growth and Trade

This brief discusses the impact of disease on trade, economic growth and commerce, with particular reference to the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Story Collection: Strong Partners Drive Robust Responses to HIV & TB in Eastern Uganda

This publication shares stories from the Strengthening TB and HIV & AIDS Responses in Eastern Uganda (STAR-E) project. STAR-E is a key partner with the government of Uganda in scaling up HIV and TB services. When the project began in 2009, STAR-E supported just 16 health facilities, with only one that provided antiretroviral therapy (ART).

MSH Nigeria Newsletter - July 2016

MSH Nigeria published this newsletter in July 2016. Newsletter Contents MSH Nigeria Presents 7 Posters at Intl. AIDS Conference MSH Pays Courtesy Call on the Minister of Health From the Country Rep MSH Celebrates 10 Years of Health Impact in Nigeria CBHI Saves Baby Rosemary’s Life MSH Nigeria Receives Award of Excellence MSH Trains TBAs in Akwa Ibom State

mHealth Compendium Series Infographic

The African Strategies for Health (ASH) project has produced six volumes of the mHealth Compendium containing 167 profiles of mobile health (mHealth) programs. The volumes document key mHealth resources, and describe featured programs and their results, lessons learned, and implementation challenges.

mHealth Compendium Special Edition 2016: Reaching Scale

The mHealth Compendium series, developed by the African Strategies for Health project, has expanded the body of knowledge and increased access to the most current information on mobile technology solutions for health.

Urban Dots in Afghanistan: Fighting TB in Kabul And Beyond

Afghanistan faces a burden of tuberculosis (TB) among the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). An estimated 60,000 new cases arise yearly, with 110,000 Afghans now living with TB; 14,000 Afghans died from the disease in 2015. Only about two in three presumed patients are found, and the treatment success rate is only 49 percent on average in the country.

Urban Dots in Afghanistan: Fighting TB in Kabul and Beyond

Afghanistan faces a burden of tuberculosis (TB) among the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).