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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 …
The Additional Yield of GeneXpert MTB/RIF Test in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Household Contacts of Smear Positive TB Cases
The objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic yield of GeneXpert MTB/RIF with Ziehl-Neelson (ZN) sputum smear microscopy among index TB…
Addressing the Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Challenge through Implementing a Mixed Model of Care in Uganda
In Uganda, various health system challenges impeded scale-up of DR-TB care in 2012; only three treatment initiation facilities existed, with only 4…
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 …
On the Front Lines of the Global Fight against TB: Eight Years of Field Research from MSH
Last year, tuberculosis (TB) killed more people than did HIV and AIDS—becoming the world’s deadliest single infectious agent. More than 95 perce…
Vitamin D Deficiency among Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients and Their Tuberculosis Negative Household Contacts in Northwest Ethiopia: A Case-Control Study
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that increases immunity against tuberculosis (TB), decreases the re-activation of latent TB and reduces the seve…
The Yield of a Tuberculosis Household Contact Investigation in Two Regions of Ethiopia
To determine the yield of a household contact investigation for tuberculosis (TB) under routine programme conditions. The objective of this study w…
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to TB among the General Population of Ethiopia: Findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey
Ethiopia is among the high-burden countries for tuberculosis (TB), TB/HIV, and drug-resistant TB. The aim of this nationwide study was to better un…
Predictors of Mortality among TB-HIV Co-infected Patients Being Treated for Tuberculosis in Northwest Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study
The aim of this study was to assess predictors of mortality among TB-HIV co-infected patients being treated for TB in Northwest Ethiopia. An instituti…
The Yield and Feasibility of Integrated Screening for TB, Diabetes and HIV in Four Public Hospitals in Ethiopia
Our objective was to demonstrate the feasibility of integrated care for TB, HIV and diabetes mellitus (DM) in a pilot project in Ethiopia.&nb…
TB Diagnostic Capacity in Sub-Saharan African HIV Care Settings
Abstract As HIV care services continue to scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa, adequate tuberculosis diagnostic capacity is vital to reduce mortality among…
Determinants of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in Patients Who Underwent First-line Treatment in Addis Ababa: A Case Control Study
Background Worldwide, there were 650,000 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in 2010, and in 2008 the World Health Organization estimate…