India

To support improvements in health services and outcomes in India, we have carried out work in leadership and management, applied research, and health management information systems—including a 19-state project in the 1980s. Our programs have aided the government with costing studies to mobilize resources for primary health care, supported access to and procurement of essential medicines and related health supplies, performed pharmaceutical-sector assessments, and developed standard operating procedures in laboratories and pharmacies. To reduce malnutrition and infant mortality, MSH has helped to deliver high-impact interventions, such as home-based newborn care, improved infant and young child feeding, and immunization.

To respond to HIV and AIDS and expand treatment of TB, MSH—with the World Bank in India—designed initiatives to combat TB among those living in crowded urban areas. We work to improve government contracting of private sector agencies to provide TB support services, and with the National Health Systems Research Centre we have been conducting a series of costing analyses to inform national budget discussions on health allocations.