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Strengthening Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Systems for Sustained Health Impact
For more than three decades, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has partnered with countries to build high-performing supply chains that ensure reliable access to safe, effective, quality-assured medicines and people-centered pharmaceutical services. MSH takes a holistic approach that fosters country-led innovation, whole-of-society engagement and collaboration, private-sector engagement, and effective leadership and governance. This ensures both reliable, affordable access to and sustainable delivery of medical products when and where they are needed and their appropriate use to save lives and improve health.
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PHC Costing, Analysis, and Planning (PHC-CAP) Tool
Overview The PHC Costing, Analysis, and Planning (PHC-CAP) Tool helps program planners and decision makers increase coverage and improve the quality o…
Assessment of the Impact of Good Pharmacy Practices Training among Drug Dispensers in Bangladesh
Accelerating the End of TB: Field Research from Management Sciences for Health—2008-2022
Uptake of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy among Under-Five Children: TB Contact Investigation as an Entry Point
A child’s risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) can be reduced by nearly 60% with administration of 6 months course of isoniazid preventive therapy …
Comparison of the Yield of Tuberculosis among Contacts of Multidrug-resistant and Drug-sensitive Tuberculosis Patients in Ethiopia Using GeneXpert as a Primary Diagnostic Test
This study compared the yield of TB among contacts of …
Use of Indicators of Standards of Care to Improve Tuberculosis Program Management in Ethiopia
In 2011 the Help Ethiopia Address the Low TB Performance (HEAL TB) Project used WHO or national TB indicators as standards of care (SOC) for baseli…
The Yield of Community-Based “Retrospective” Tuberculosis Contact Investigation in a High Burden Setting in Ethiopia
To determine the yield and determinants of retrospective TB contact inves…
Trends in Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes after Interventions in 10 Zones of Ethiopia
SETTING: Amhara and Oromia Regions, Ethiopia.OBJECTIVE: To determine trends in c…
Fact Sheet: HEAL TB – Curing TB, Saving Lives 2011-2016
While TB is a national and international priority, Ethiopia’s high TB rates were not declining rapidly in the 2000s. From 2011-16, USAID funded …
Decentralization of Acid Fast Bacilli External Quality Assurance Using Blind Rechecking for Sputum Smear Microscopy in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has achieved rapid expansion of TB microscopic centers for acid fast bacilli (AFB). However, external quality assurance (EQA) services were, …
Report: HEAL TB Summary
From 2011–16, the HEAL TB project supported Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in Amhara and Oromia regions to improve comprehens…
HEAL TB Success Stories: Saving Lives, Improving Health
HEAL TB Final Report: The Rapid Expansion of Comprehensive, High-Quality Tuberculosis Services in Ethiopia
Final Report: Help Ethiopia Address Low TB Performance (HEAL TB) Project 2011–2016 In 2010, when the United States Agency for International Developmen…
Fact Sheet: The Challenge of Tuberculosis
Improving the Quality and Performance of TB Culture Laboratory Services through Cold Chain Specimen Transportation System in Ethiopia
At the beginning of the HEAL TB project in 2011, culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) using solid media was available to the program in two r…