Resource Type: Research paper or report
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IUCD Post-training Evaluation
May 2012 — In collaboration with FHI 360’s Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project, Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health conducted a post-training evaluation in 37 woredas where providers had been trained by Ipas, Marie Stopes International Ethiopia, and EngenderHealth to deliver intrauterine device (IUD) services. Results of the evaluation, which determined the extent of IUD…
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2012 Comprehensive Family Planning Training Evaluation Report (Ethiopia)
November 2012 – With support from FHI 360’s Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project, FHI 360 researchers and independent consultants evaluated a group of comprehensive family planning trainings that were conducted by the Integrated Family Health Program (IFHP) in Ethiopia. This report describes the success of the trainings as well as weakness that need to…
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A Situation Analysis of Family Planning in Ethiopia: Full Report
October 2012 — This report describes the results of a situation analysis conducted by Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health, with support from FHI 360’s Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project, to assess the readiness of the health system to expand the delivery of family planning services in select sites. Information on the capacity to provide long-acting…
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Quality Improvement Stories: Improving the System of Care for Malnourished Children Infected with HIV in Delhi, India
March 2012 — Under the Strengthening Abilities to Manage and Respond Effectively to HIV/AIDS (SAMARTH) project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, FHI 360 and a Delhi-based nongovernmental organization, Women’s Action Group (WAG) CHELSEA, worked together to address malnutrition among children with HIV. Using a quality improvement framework and community-based approach, the project treated…
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Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection Among African Women
August 2012 — The primary results of a trial of once-daily oral Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection among women in Africa (FEM-PrEP) are presented in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The FEM-PrEP study was stopped early, on April 18, 2011, because of a lack of efficacy. Despite targeted…
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Behavioral and Biologic Surveillance Survey: Female Sex Workers
2000 — This resource was published under the USAID-funded IMPACT project.
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TB CARE I: Year 2, 3rd Quarter Report
August 2012 — The global resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) over the past decades has been fueled by emerging drug resistance, co-infection with increasingly prevalent HIV and decreasing investments in public health systems. These challenges call for innovative, strategic approaches and more efficient, cost-effective programs. TB CARE I is a coalition of seven international TB control organizations,…
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Task Sharing in Family Planning
June 2009 — This document explores the concept of task sharing. A key feature of task sharing is that health workers with less medical or paramedical training can provide some of the same services with the same quality as those with more training. While the term “task sharing” is new, the concept has been applied for…
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Symposium to Develop a Comprehensive Strategy for IUD Repositioning
2007 — With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development through the Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Technologies Research and Utilization program, FHI 360 initiated a project to revitalize family planning, especially the intrauterine device (IUD), in Uttar Pradesh, India. FHI 360 collaborated on this effort with the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the government…