Brief on causes and outcomes of stunting in Egyptian children, as well as the role of junk food.
Recommended Practices and Counseling Messages to Address Infant and Young Child Feeding Problems in the First Two Years of Life in Egypt: An Update for Health Care Providers
Through learnings from a study on stunting implemented in Lower and Upper Egypt through the MCHIP/SMART project, this brief was developed to give health care providers additional information and suggestions on how to improve infant and young child feeding practices.
Tracking implementation progress for Kangaroo Mother Care
This brief provides an overview of results from an evaluation of KMC implemention in four countries: Malawi, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda.
Health-systems bottlenecks and strategies to accelerate scale-up in countries
MCHIP’s Newborn Health Team Leader, Dr. Joseph de Graft-Johnson, has contributed to a series of papers published in The Lancet. The series provides an overview of the progress to date in newborn survival, and stresses the need for quality care at birth. The article—entitled “Health-systems bottlenecks and strategies to accelerate scale-up in countries”—is one of five papers in the collection, …
Quality of Antenatal and Delivery Care Services in Six Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2010–2012, MCHIP conducted a series of health facility surveys examining the quality of care that mothers and newborns received in facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main objective of these surveys was to determine the frequency and quality of evidence-based MNH interventions performed by antenatal care and delivery care providers. This brief presents a summary of study findings from six …
Maternal Mortality and HIV: An Overview
This briefer examines the causes of maternal morbidity and mortality among women living with HIV, as well as maternal health and antiretroviral treatment. An estimated 6-20% of maternal deaths worldwide are believed to be HIV-related. However, many of these deaths can be prevented with the implementation of high-quality antenatal, obstetric and postpartum care, including prompt diagnosis of HIV and associated …
Intersecting Epidemics: An Overview of the Causes of Maternal Death and Infectious Diseases
With maternal mortality still unacceptably high in many parts of the world, this briefer examines why and where mothers are dying, and raises questions about how maternal health strategies can and should be increasingly customized and targeted to accelerate progress in saving mothers’ lives. It stresses the need for collaborative partnerships and renewed attention to integrated clinical and public health …
Mode of Childbirth in Low-Risk Pregnancies: Nicaraguan Physicians’ Viewpoints
The results of a qualitative study conducted by MCHIP have been published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal. The article—entitled “Mode of Childbirth in Low-Risk Pregnancies: Nicaraguan Physicians’ Viewpoints”—explores the attitudes of physicians in the country attending births in public and private sectors, and the causes of unnecessary cesarean operations. The authors identify five actions that would help decrease …
Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide for Program Managers and Policy Makers
This document is an in-depth review of issues and questions that should be considered when addressing key issues relevant for large-scale CHW programs. Rather than being an instructional manual, the Reference Guide is meant to provide a framework for those in leadership positions in-country as they consider how to develop, expand and strengthen their CHW program. It was developed in …
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Improving Quality, Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness, and Demand for Services during an Accelerated Scale-Up
This collection of research studies provides evidence from five African countries—Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Lesotho—that safe, high-quality voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services performed by trained healthcare professionals in low resource settings can be implemented and sustained at scale and has the potential to significantly prevent new HIV infections in adolescent and adult men. The papers published under …