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Manual para la humanización y adecuación cultural de la atención del parto (HACAP)

Developed by FCI, the Ministry of Health of Ecuador, and the Quality Assurance Project (QAP) this manual facilitates a process to adapt delivery care to cultural expectations.

Jóvenes y derechos: mensajes para incidir en la esfera pública

La publicación "Jóvenes y derechos: mensajes para incidir en la esfera pública" es una herramienta para aquellos grupos, organizaciones o personas que quieran dedicarse a hacer abogacía por el ejercicio de los derechos reproductivos, y en particular para la prevención del embarazo no deseado en adolescentes.

Focus on 5: Women's Health and the MDGs

Of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), MDG 5 — Improve maternal health — has made the least progress. It is the most underfunded of the health-related MDGs. Globally, the MDGs are widely accepted as the path to ending poverty.

Apuntes para la incidencia en las políticas públicas sobre maternidad segura y salud sexual y reproductiva para mujeres indígenas

Este manual didáctico explica a través de ejemplos y ejercicios sencillos qué son y en qué consisten las políticas públicas, y cómo se diseñan, deciden, implementan y mantienen a lo largo del tiempo.

Buenas prácticas en prevención del embarazo adolescente: Herramienta para la sistematización de experiencias desde una perspectiva de buenas prácticas

El objetivo de este documento es guiar la sistematización de experiencias de prevención del embarazo adolescente tanto de los ministerios como de organizaciones de la sociedad civil bajo la óptica de "buenas prácticas".

Camino al Buen Trato

Producido por la Federación de Organizaciones de la Nacionalidad Kichwa de Sucumbíos (FONAKISE), AMNKISE y FCI Ecuador, el Camino al Buen Trato es un rotafolio para capacitar y formar a promotores del buen trato en las comunidades de Ecuador de manera que puedan gestionar contra la violencia de la mujer y su prevención. Esta publicación es sólo disponible en

Cartillas: "Maternidad Segura" y "Salud Sexual y Reproductiva"

Los presentes módulos de capacitación fueron desarrollados para prestadores/as de servicios de consejería médica a mujeres en edad reproductiva, mujeres embarazadas y madres de niños/as menores de dos años. Los mismos abordan de forma integral y con un enfoque de derechos temas relevantes a la salud sexual y reproductiva y salud materna.

Updating National Essential Medicine Lists: A Step-by-Step Advocacy Guide

This guide provides national stakeholders and advocates with information and guidance to update the national EML to include a new commodity, a new indication, or a new formulation based on the available evidence and based on country need and disease burden.

Community Health Planning and Costing Tool

Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Context of the Zika Virus

In light of the 2016 Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Regional Task Force for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality, of which MSH is an executive committee member, produced these cards to provide information and recommendations for sexual and reproductive health policy, programs, and actions.

QuanTB User's Guide and Installation Instructions

This page provides the QuanTB User's Guide and Installation Instructions. To learn more about QuanTB and download the software for Mac or PC, please visit the main QuanTB page.

Upgrading or Reinstalling QuanTB

This page provides instructions for upgrading or reinstalling the QuanTB software on Mac or PC. To learn more about QuanTB and download the software for Mac or PC, please visit the main QuanTB page.

QuanTB Technical Brief

This page provides a technical brief for the QuanTB software.

The Leadership Development Program Plus (LDP+): A Guide for Facilitators

The Leadership Development Program Plus (LDP+) is the enhanced version of the Leadership Development Program (LDP) first delivered by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in 2002.

Estándares de salud materna con enfoque intercultural (Intercultural Maternal Health Standards)

Hacia la mejora de la calidad de la atención materna para las mujeres indígenas de las Américas y la erradicación de la inequidad en salud, 2016 Sólo disponible en español

Standards for Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Latin America and the Caribbean

In the report Health for the World's Adolescents: a second chance in the second decade, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the health sector's important role in advancing adolescent health, but also notes that health services for adolescents tend to be highly fragmented, poorly coordinated, and uneven in quality.

Guidelines for Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR): Region of the Americas

Reducing preventable maternal mortality requires a surveillance system that systematically captures accurate, timely and disaggregated data on how many women die, where, why and when in the reproductive process. Health policymakers, programmers, advocates, and communities must then use surveillance data to inform their response to the factors contributing to maternal mortality.

Malaria in pregnancy: Improving access and use of quality preventive treatment

Due to its link to various complications during and after pregnancy, the prevention of malaria among pregnant women is an important strategy for reducing mortality and adverse maternal and neonatal health outcomes, such as anemia, low birth weight, and newborn death.

Gender Transformative Supportive Supervision Framework and Technical Brief

This conceptual framework was designed to show the influence gender has on supervisor-provider relationships, and how this influence could be explored and addressed through programming and research.

Pre-service Integration Guide

The Pre-service Integration Guide is designed to assist heads of departments and faculty in pre-service health training institutions that train medical, nursing, pharmacy, laboratory and other allied health professionals to successfully introduce practical and action-oriented leadership and management modules into pre-service curricula for their students.

Network Strengthening Program (NSP)

The objective of the NSP is to improve network effectiveness to meet their member’s needs and enhance their long-term sustainability. The content of the program includes: membership and benefits, distributed leadership, network governance, financial systems and sustainability, and communications for resource mobilization.

Risk Factors For the Spread Of an Epidemic

In order to fight against future epidemics, the world must take action to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.

Preventing the Spread of Infections: The Role of Midwives in Controlling an Epidemic

Studies have shown that the role of a midwife before, during and after delivery can play a crucial role in preventing cross-infection between mother and baby. Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) remains a serious threat, particularly with Zika and HIV viruses. Midwives have the power to change that.

Epidemic Impact: The Financial Burden of Ebola

Once an outbreak becomes an epidemic, the costs - both human and financial - on health systems are extensive and debilitating.

Global Health Security Agenda: National Laboratory System Ten Core Test

The list of 10 Core tests in each country includes six testing methods selected according to the International Health Regulations' immediately notifiable list and the WHO Top Ten Causes of Death in low-income countries.