Abt Associates HIV Study Looks at Human Resources
A dwindling number of public-sector health care professionals in Côte d'Ivoire poses a serious impediment to achieving the goals for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, says Damascene Butera.
Abt Associates Is a Major Participant in the XVIth International AIDS Conference in Toronto
The International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, was the largest AIDS meeting of its kind. Abt Associates' senior international and domestic health staff offered 18 presentations, participated in four panels, and were invited to join a special session by the Clinton Foundation.
Catherine Chanfreau, Keeping the People in Focus
When she designs and evaluates programs for governments to combat HIV/AIDS, Catherine Chanfreau remembers why she cares. It goes back to a Paris drug treatment center.
Cosmas Musumali, Adding Value to People's Lives
For Cosmas Musumali, the drive to bring his native country of Zambia closer to a solution to the HIV/AIDS tragedy is no abstraction. He lost four brothers and sisters to the disease.
Developing Capacity: A Health Project Improves Information Flow in Cambodia
When the Partners for Health Reformplus project was asked by the U.S. Agency for International Development to create an information system for TB/HIV interventions in Cambodia, Caroline Quijada had no idea how challenging the undertaking would be.
Doing Good in Jordan — Quietly
When the United States set out to help overhaul the public health system in Jordan, it was making an investment in Middle East stability as much as in public health clinics.
Gilbert Kombe, Engineering Changes in the World's Health Systems
Gilbert Kombe was told early that he would be an engineer. The men in the Kombe family in Zambia were always engineers. But little by little, as he saw that health, not engineering, was what his family talked about, as he watched his relatives struggle with illness year after year, he saw what he had to do. This family has enough engineers, Kombe thought. What we need is a doctor.
Hadi Alhamzi, Pursuing a Passion for Accuracy
When Dr. Hadi Alhamzi reviewed an official report indicating that 120 percent of the population of his native Yemen had received vaccinations during a campaign, he cringed. "Nonsense data" drives him crazy, and there is plenty of it to go around.
Jordan and USAID Sign Memorandum to Institutionalize 'Health Outcomes'
Jordan's Queen Rania attended the signing of a memorandum of understanding between USAID's Health Systems Strengthening Project and the Jordanian Ministry of Health that aims to institutionalize "key health outcomes."
Jordan, USAID Launch OPIS Info System
USAID and Jordan have launched the Obstetric Patients Information System, a user-friendly electronic medical records system that links small maternity clinics to the obstetrics departments of hospitals.
Popular Street Theater Promotes Home Diarrhea Management to Save Children's Lives in India
Dehydration due to diarrhea kills almost 500,000 children under age five in India every year, yet most of these deaths could be avoided simply with the correct use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) to prevent and treat dehydration and zinc supplements to reduce the recurrence of diarrhea.
Profile: Luis Morales
A physician with training in public health, hospital management, and economics, he has more than 20 years' senior-level experience in Latin American health reform policy and project implementation.
Tania Dmytraczenko, Using Economics in the Interest of Health
Growing up in Santos, Brazil, Tania Dmytraczenko saw firsthand the meaning of inequality. Her experience eventually led to a career where she employs economic tools to produce concrete improvements in the lives, and especially the health, of the poor.
Traditional Leaders in Zambia: A Weapon Against AIDS
Senior Chief Mukuni of the Toka-Leya people of Zambia values tradition. But he draws a line when it comes to certain sexual practices, and for a practical reason.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of The Skilled Care Initiative, A Maternal Health Program, In Kenya And Tanzania.
iHEA 2007.
Stephanie Boulenger, Tania Dmytraczenko
(7/2007)
Community Based Health Financing and Child Health, Results from Ghana, Mali, and Senegal.
iHEA 2007.
Marty Makinen
(7/2007)
Cost-effectiveness of the Skilled Care Initiative (Kenya, Tanzania).
GHC 2007.
Stephanie Boulenger, Ph.D., Abt Associates International Health Division
(5/2007)
USAID's Conecta Project, a Successful Experience to Integrate Care for PLWHA in the Dominican Republic.
GHC 2007.
Jorge Blanco, Abt Associates International Health Division
(5/2007)
Public Sector Influence on Commercial Sector Delivery and Financing of HIV/AIDS Service.
GHC 2007.
Stephanie Boulenger, Ph.D., Abt Associates International Health Division
(5/2007)
Purchasing HIV/AIDS care through service packages to improve access for PLWAs.
Global Health Council 2005.
Jorge Blanco
(5/2005)
-Abstract
Strengthening Public Hospitals to Implement National Health Insurance Reforms in the Dominican Republic.
Global Health Council 2005.
Luis Morales
(5/2005)
-Abstract
Using Evaluation Results to Improve Health Outcomes in Zambia.
Global Health Council 2005.
Sara Sulzbach
(5/2005)
-Abstract
Informed policymaking: what the public thinks about reproductive genetic technologies.
Abstract presented at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting.
Hudson K, Bernhardt B, Doksum T, Doukas D, Evans J, Geller G, Kalfoglou A, LeRoy L, Mathews D, Reame N, Scott J
(2003)
-Abstract
HIV prevention for sexual partners of injection drug users (IDUs), Ha Giang Province, Vietnam.
T. Hammett, R. Kling, D. Ngu, K.T. Binh, H.N. Quyen, H.V. Tren, D.C. Des Jarlais
(7/2008)
-Abstract
Strengthening Pre-service Education in Zambia for the Provision of HIV/AIDS Services and Care.
Lastina Tembo Lwatula, Elijah Sinyinza, Richard Hughes, Albert Mwango
(7/2008)
-Abstract
Assessing The Financial Priority Of Malaria In Rwanda; Who Spends? How Much? And For What Services?
iHEA 2007.
Susna De, Ken Carlson, J. Kagubare, Daniel Ngamije, Claude Sekabaraga, Emmanuel Kabanda
(7/2007)
Extending social health insurance coverage to the informal sector: results of a randomized evaluation in Nicaragua.
iHEA 2007.
Tania Dmytraczenko, Barbara Magnoni, Susna De, Rebecca Thornton.
(7/2007)
Do Mutual Health Organizations Improve Access to Health Care? Evidence from West Africa.
iHEA 2007.
Slavea Chankova, Sara Sulzbach, Francois Diop
(7/2007)
Innovations in Improving Service Delivery — Improving primary health care services in Albania: The impact of a quality improvement intervention in two districts.
APHA 2005.
Linda Piccinino (for David Hotchkiss, Tulane University, PHRplus Project)
(12/2005)
-Abstract
Tools and Approaches to Financial Sustainability for Reproductive Health Programs — Access to credit as a key to financial sustainability for reproductive health services.
APHA 2005.
Carlos Carrazana
(12/2005)
-Abstract
Effective Sanitation and Water Treatment Interventions — Knowledge and practices of hygiene, sanitation and water use in rural Yemen.
APHA 2005.
Emtinan Al-Medwahi
(12/2005)
-Abstract
Healthcare Systems Strengthening (Jordan HSS) The Health Systems Strengthening Project (HSS) is a five-year USAID initiative that aims to improve quality of and access to health care services for Jordanian families. In close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Royal Medical Services, HSS contributes to developing a stronger health system that supports and achieves improvements in health outcomes by stimulating structural, administrative, and behavioral change.
Health Systems 20/20 HS 20/20 works to strengthen health systems through integrated approaches to improving financing, governance, and operations, and building sustainable capacity of local institutions.
Banking on Health Project This USAID-funded project increases access to financing for the private health sector in developing and emerging economies worldwide. It works with a variety of financial institutions and private health sector businesses with the ultimate objective of improving family planning and reproductive health.
Health Services and Systems Program — Zambia HSSP is a USAID funded health project in Zambia whose mandate is to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) in improving the quality of and access to key health services through the provision of technical assistance.
Promoviendo Alianzas y Estategias — Peru Promoting Alliances and Strategies (PRAES) is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development/Peru to promote a strong alliance between the Peruvian government and members of civil society to provide ordinary citizens a voice in defining health needs and priorities.
Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) The PSP-One project is USAID's flagship project to increase the private sector's provision of high-quality family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) and other health products and services in developing countries. USAID looks to PSP-One to provide technical leadership in optimal private sector strategies; to synthesize and disseminate proven strategies, research findings, and tools; and to provide country-level support in development and scale-up of successful private sector approaches. PSP-One works to advance state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in private sector programming.
The ZdravPlus Program The ZdravPlus Project builds on the successes of the five-year USAID-funded ZdravReform Project, also led by Abt Associates. ZdravPlus continues to provide technical assistance and training to improve the quality and efficiency of health care services in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
Work by the Abt Associates-led USAID Private Sector Program (PSP) helped the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health put together a new partnership between the public and private healthcare sectors to improve access to Tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
Recognizing a need for conceptual tools to assist both donors and program implementers to identify priorities for funding and strategies for long-term viability, the Abt Associates led Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project developed a framework to define the indicators, assessment tools, and strategies that can move programs toward sustainability.
Abt Associates, under direction of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has identified five primary strategies to improve the Republic of Mali’s Focused Antenatal Care Program (ANC). Because Mali has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in West Africa, the Government of Mali adopted the ANC program to address the needs of pregnant women and their families
Private-sector midwives in developing countries can potentially provide services beyond their traditional scope to bridge the growing gap between services the public sector needs to deliver and the shortage of qualified health professionals in areas most impacted by HIV/AIDS, according to a study from the Abt Associates led Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project.
Abt Associates is helping USAID implement projects that improve the health of women around the world. These USAID-funded efforts focus on increasing access to health services for women, increasing use of family planning methods, strengthening women-led institutions and networks to better provide targeted services, ensuring that health financing directly benefits women, and creating a supportive policy environment for private sector providers.
Abt Associates is assisting with the development of training materials and job aids to add influenza-like illness into Tanzania's existing Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response system (IDSR). This work builds on earlier activities conducted by Abt Associates under USAID's Partners for Health Reformplus (PHRplus) flagship project.
Many remote regions of Africa that experience high HIV prevalence rates have little or no HIV screening or healthcare services. Even in areas that have clinics, HIV detection services and treatment are rare or unavailable. Abt Associates' Chitalu Chilufya, M.D., a member of the USAID funded Zambia HSSP Project, asked USAID to fund a "mobile clinic" to enable him to travel with members of the HSSP team to remote regions of the country.
In December 2005, Abt Associates' Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) Specialist Jim Setzer traveled to Ghana at the request of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to undertake a rapid assessment of the government's preparedness to meet the challenges posed by avian influenza (AI).
