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Towards a New EU Global Health Strategy: Civil society shadow Global Health Strategy
The EU hosts many of the best healthcare systems in the world and brings its extensive technical and managerial experience to advancing global health. It has tremendous convening power, a wide scope of action and partnerships, presence in international or
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Advocating for National Community Health Workforce Strategy in Bangladesh
Save the Children advocated for and led the development of a Community Health Worker Strategy 2019-2030 in Bangladesh. This publication shares the background of the process, the history of community health workers in Bangladesh, and how Save the Children
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Strengthening Community Health Systems through CHW Harmonization in Bangladesh
The purpose of this policy brief is to inform discussions and decisions at the national level in Bangladesh regarding CHW harmonization and the Community Clinic (CC) Centered Health Service Model. This brief summarizes results from a pilot of the Communit
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The Burden and Risks of Pediatric Pneumonia in Nigeria: A desk‐based review of existing literature and data
Pneumonia is a leading killer of children under‐5 years, with a high burden in Nigeria. The study aimed to quantify the regional burden and risks of pediatric pneumonia in the country, and specifically the states of Lagos and Jigawa. It found that there i
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Delivering Infectious Disease Interventions to Women and Children in Conflict Settings: A systematic review
In countries and regions across the world, there are significant gaps in access to infectious disease interventions within health systems. In some instances, these are further impeded by war, civil unrest and political violence. There is an urgent need to
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Learning from Exemplars in Global Health: A road map for mitigating indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health
To minimize these negative indirect effects, countries will need to consider all domains of health systems, including demand, supply, resources, and social determinants. To this end, learning from countries that have improved health outcomes amid other cr
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Connect: Increasing Use of Pospartum Family Planning by First-Time Parents
This project overview describes the Connect project and its approaches and strategies for increasing access to postpartum family planning for first-time parents in Bangladesh and Tanzania.
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A Mixed‐Methods Evaluation of Stakeholder Perspectives on Pediatric Pneumonia in Nigeria: Priorities, challenges, and champions
Interventions to reduce pneumonia mortality exist in Nigeria; however, stakeholder engagement is needed to prioritize these. This study explores diverse stakeholder opinions on current policy challenges and priorities for pediatric pneumonia in the countr
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Building Community Health Worker Capacity in Egypt
This brief describes the process and results of applying a low dose, high frequency approach to Community Health Worker capacity building in Egypt.
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Community Based Newborn Care in Ethiopia: Special issue of the Ethiopian Medical Journal
The purpose of this supplement is to document the implementation of the national Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) intervention in Ethiopia in order to identify implementation strengths and weaknesses, as well as to generate knowledge for future nationa
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Development of Egypt’s National Community Health Worker Strategy: Optimizing a historical program for the future
This case study describes the process of developing Egypt's national community health worker strategy, the Maternal and Child Survival Program's contributions to its development, and the impact (real and potential) of the strategy.
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Management of Possible Serious Bacterial Infections (PSBI) in Young Infants in Rural India: Pilot study on reaching the vulnerable population through health system strengthening approach
India accounts for 27% of global neonatal mortality; serious infections are responsible for one-third of these deaths as a referral for appropriate care is frequently not feasible. In 2014, the Government of India (GoI) issued Guidelines for syndromic ide