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Saving Lives, Improving Health: Volume 3, 2014

Twelve Stories of How MSH Is Advancing Health around the World This compendium of stories was submitted through an internal story-telling contest at MSH and represents the lifesaving work MSH and the frontline health workers we partner with perform every day, around the world.

Mobile Technology for Community Health

To improve quality of service provision and data accuracy and timeliness, USAID Mikolo is introducing mobile technology to replace paper-based tools used by community health volunteers (CHVs).Working alongside the Ministry of Public Health and other partners, the project has developed a smartphone application that CHVs will use to manage their health services and record-keeping and disseminate inf

12 Stories: Advancing Health around the World

Volume 6 | 2017

Using Performance Charts to Achieve HIV Targets

The strides made in Malawi's Chiradzulu District demonstrate improved data use at the facility level and that using performance charts can go a long way in improving program performance. As a result of the success in Chiradzulu, the initiative has been scaled up in all of the DHSS program areas.

Tracing System Improves Retention of Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy

The patient tracing system improved the delivery of HIV services in MSH-supported facilities in Malawi's Blantyre District. More than 50% of patients who had missed an appointment were brought back to care. Some patients who had self- transferred out to other facilities were identi ed and their outcomes recorded in the register.

Strengthening IPTP Service Delivery Through Facility Initiated Supervision

Lessons From a Quality Improvement Approach in Uganda

Improving the Quality and Performance of TB Culture Laboratory Services Through Cold Chain Specimen Transportation System in Ethiopia

At the beginning of the HEAL TB project in 2011, culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) using solid media was available to the program in two regions to detect drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and for monitoring treatment response, which made identifying drug- resistance patterns possible and allowed health care workers to provide more appropriate drug treatment for DR-TB patients.

Improving Active Case Finding among a High Risk Population in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh tea and rubber garden workers and indigenous communities live in isolated areas with difficulties to access government health facilities. In addition, the level of poverty of some of these groups put them at risk of getting TB.

Overcoming Maintenance Challenges Associated with GeneXpert Machines — Experience in Bangladesh

GeneXpert has revolutionized the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and drug resistant TB (DR-TB) by effectively detecting M. tuberculosis in clinical specimens and RMP resistance in less than two hours without sophisticated laboratories. This enables patients to begin treatment for rifampicin resistant TB on the same day, rather than after several months of ineffective treatment.

Overcoming the Challenges of Rolling Out e-TB Manager in Nigeria

The e-TB Manager was used for drug resistant TB case management from 2010. The number of active DR-TB cases being managed in the system increased from 23 in 2010 to 1,037 in 2016.

Integrating Service Delivery for TB and Diabetes Mellitus – An Innovative and Scalable Approach in Ethiopia

Challenge TB was implemented in Ethiopia as part of Management Sciences for Health’s (MSH’s) Innovation Challenge Fund (INCH)2 initiative designed to encourage innovative interventions across MSH supported projects. MSH used the ExpandNet Framework3 to scale up the innovation.

Targeted Tuberculosis Case Finding Interventions in Six Mining Shafts in Remote Districts of Oromia Region in Ethiopia

Together with Borena and Guji zonal health department and the Oromia Regional Health Bureau (RHB), MSH, through the HEAL TB project (December 2015-June 2016) and now through Challenge TB (December 2016-present), identified six districts within the mining areas. Six woreda coordinators were trained and deployed to coordinate case finding and treatment observation.

Accredited Drug Seller Initiatives Publication Compendium: 2009–2017

MSH authors have published a number of journal articles describing the accredited drug seller implementation experience and lessons learned in Tanzania—home of the flagship ADDO program. A new compendium reviews highlights ranging from robust multi-method quantitative to informative qualitative research.

Quality IPTp Checklist for Facility Officers in Charge

Due to its link to various complications during and after pregnancy, the prevention of malaria among pregnant women is regarded as an important strategy for reducing mortality and adverse maternal and neonatal health outcomes, such as maternal anemia, low birth weight, and perinatal deaths.

Leaders Who Govern: Companion Guide

This guide was developed as an abbreviated companion to the longer Management Sciences for Health publication Leaders Who Govern, with two main goals: To facilitate finding practical information about specific aspects of good governance

Pharmaceutical Management Considerations for Expanded Coverage of Essential Health Services and Financial Protection Programs

The UN adoption of the SDGs in 2015 signaled a strong commitment of member countries to the expanded access to essential health service agenda and definitively recognized the critical role of medicines in achieving UHC.

Coordinated Procurement Distribution System News

Inside this issue: Enabling Proper Quantification of Essential Medicines Improved Coordination to Enhance Contraceptive Availability Establishing Common Criteria for Monitoring Supplier Performance Launching a New Pharmaceutical Logistic Information System Technical Sessions Continue to Promote Knowledge Sharing Public Sector Pharmaceutical Services Directory Released

Foreign Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company Registration Guideline for Afghanistan

The safety, efficacy, and quality of pharmaceutical products can be highly affected by the lack of adequate controls on importation. It is therefore imperative that the importation of pharmaceutical products conforms to certain set standards. In this context, the importation of pharmaceutical products should not be treated in the same way as ordinary commodities.

Technical Report: Waste Management of Pharmaceuticals in Afghanistan

Afghanistan already has a pharmaceutical product waste disposal operation, and pharmaceutical materials are reviewed for disposal and destruction, but the current operation is generally believed to have many shortfalls. Attempts at estimating the scale of the issue using total throughput volumes of pharmaceuticals have indicated no major issue on waste disposal because not enough volume of ph

Afghanistan National Medicines Policy 2014-2019

The goals of this new edition of the National Medicines Policy are to ensure the continuous development of the pharmaceutical sector and to meet the health care pharmaceutical requirements of all people living in Afghanistan, through the provision and use of safe, efficacious, high quality, cost effective, and affordable medicines and related products.

SPS Afghanistan Leader with Associate: A Retrospective Report

Building and strengthening health systems are difficult and take time.

SPS Afghanistan Associate Award Quarterly Newsletter

Inside this issue: SPS Afghanistan Associate Award Stakeholders Update Pharmacy Curriculum National Food & Medicine Board Hosts Workshop Welcome from the Chief of Party SPS & GDPA Attend International Conference SPS Assists MoPH with Emergency Medicine Order Heath Communications Message Widely Broadcasted Transition of Drug Management Unit Completed

Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting and Management Assessment in Six Hospitals of Kabul, Afghanistan

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), with technical and financial assistance of the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), carried out the medicines safety assessment from March to August 2013 in six Kabul hospitals.

Pharmaceutical Logistic Information System (PLIS) Report on the Expansion Testing Phase in all BPHS/EPHS Implementing NGOs

In Afghanistan, 20 non-governmental organizations are contracted by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to provide support to the Basic Package for Health Services and Essential Package for Hospital Services (BPHS/EPHS) in all 34 provinces. The Pharmaceutical Logistics Information System (PLIS) was tested in all these NGOs in all the provinces in September 2013.

National Standard Treatment Guidelines for the Primary Level

This national standard treatment guidelines (STGs) manual is designed for use at the first-level (i.e., primary) facilities delivering the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS).