Resource Type: Research paper or report
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Building a Palliative Care Program in Ethiopia: The Impact on HIV and AIDS Patients and Their Families
July 2010 – Home – and community-based care in Ethiopia implements palliative care through the continuum of care in 14 major cities with links to local health facilities. Community support through traditional burial societies (idirs) makes it possible for the program to provide holistic care to people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their family members. The…
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From Burial Societies to Mutual Aid Organizations: The Role of Idirs — Traditional Burial Societies in Ethiopia — In Ensuring Community-Level Care and Protection of Vulnerable Children
March 2012 – From 2004 through 2009, Family Health International engaged 270 Idirs—traditional burial societies—in Ethiopia’s fight against HIV and AIDS, which required the Idirs to change from only supporting death and mourning ceremonies to also supporting the living via mutual aid. Results show that more than 126,000 children received services and that these Idirs…
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EQUIP 3 Brief — Community YouthMapping
Community YouthMapping is a youth-centered participatory development strategy that engages young people and adults in canvassing their communities to document community-based resources, needs, and opportunities. Seeing the community through the eyes of young people is, to many, a more comprehensive assessment of what a community has to offer. This is a tool designing Community YouthMapping…
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An Evaluation of the Government of India’s Initiative on Contraceptives at the Doorstep by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)
2012 — An evaluation of a pilot project to improve contraceptive access via community health workers in India has found the initiative to be promising, as 86 percent of the health workers said it would work in the long term and 75 percent of female beneficiaries were satisfied. The full report of the initiative, which addresses issues…
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Feasibility of Providing Family Planning Services Through an Agricultural Cooperative Field Day
February 2012 – The Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project has demonstrated the feasibility of using non-health institutions to improve access to family planning and community health services in rural areas of Kenya. Seven field-day health camps organized by FHI 360 with agricultural cooperatives supported by Land O’Lakes International Development offered a convenient and free channel…
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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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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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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,…