Can Formalizing Links among Community Health Workers, Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlet Dispensers, and Health Facility Staff Increase Their Collaboration to Improve Prompt Access to Maternal and Child Care? A Qualitative Study in Tanzania
An intervention brought together community health workers, health facility staff, and accredited drug dispensing outlet (ADDO) dispensers to ...
Cohort Profile: Improving Treatment of HIV-Infected Ethiopian Children through Better Detection of Treatment Failure in Southern Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Paediatric HIV Cohort was established to identify clinical and laboratory predictors of virological treatment failure to ultimately d...
An Analysis of Policies for Cotrimoxazole, Amoxicillin and Azithromycin Use in Namibia's Public Sector: Findings and Therapeutic Implications
Despite Namibia's robust medicine use systems and policies, antibiotic use indicators remain suboptimal. Recent medicine use surveys rank cot...
Exploring the Experiences of Women and Health Care Workers in the Context of PMTCT Option B Plus in Malawi
A cross-sectional qualitative study was conducted to explore early experiences surrounding "Option B+" for patients and health care workers in Malawi...
Lessons Learned from Option B+ in the Evolution toward Test and Start from Malawi, Cameroon, and the United Republic of Tanzania
This article presents Malawi’s experience with designing and implementing Option B+ and provides complementary narratives from Cameroon and Tanzania. ...
EML Harmonization Process in Ukraine
The availability of a unified essential medicines list (EML) with evidence-based clinical efficacy to be used by the Ministry of Health (MOH) for the ...
Engagement of the Private Pharmaceutical Sector for TB Control: Rhetoric or Reality?
Private-sector retail drug outlets are often the first point of contact for common health ailments, including tuberculosis (TB). The objective of this...
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SIAPS Ukraine End of Project Report
The USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program in Ukraine worked with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and o...
Sustaining Ukraine’s Progress in Fighting TB
Tuberculosis, which is the leading cause of death among infectious diseases in Ukraine, is especially dangerous due to the high estimated number of pa...