This six-part video series on voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) training is available through the World Health Organization’s Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention website. Produced by CHAPS, MCHIP and PEPFAR (the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the videos highlight three country experiences in VMMC. They were developed to: Serve as a good introduction for service …
Performance-based Incentives to Improve Health Status of Mothers and Newborns: What Does the Evidence Show?
The Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition has published the article, “Performance-based Incentives to Improve Health Status of Mothers and Newborns: What Does the Evidence Show?” authored by Rena Eichler (Broad Branch Associates), Koki Agarwal (Jhpiego/MCHIP), Ian Askew (Population Council), Emma Iriarte (Inter-American Development Bank), Lindsay Morgan (Broad Branch Associates) and Julia Watson (DFID). The authors analyzed evidence from published …
It’s about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning
MCHIP staff have co-authored an article in the journal Global Health: Science and Practice entitled “It’s about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning.” With references to both the ‘‘Statement for Collective Action for Postpartum Family Planning’’ and its companion piece—“‘Programming Strategies for Postpartum Family Planning”—the article stresses the need for immediate efforts to encourage country …
What Did USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program Learn about Community Case Management and How Can It Learn More?
This study of 22 Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) projects since 2000 was conducted in four parts: a desk review of community case management (CCM) projects; a review of project monitoring indicators; benchmark mapping; and case studies. CSHGP projects since 2000 were selected for the review based on the extent to which they implemented CCM interventions for febrile …
MCHIP brochure
This brochure highlights the work of USAID bureau for Global Health’s flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP). Since 2008, the Program has worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to improve the health of women and their families. MCHIP supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family planning, …
Moving malaria in pregnancy programs from neglect to priority: experience from Malawi, Senegal and Zambia
This article, published in the journal Global Health: Science and Practice, describes the results of a systematic case study methodology to assess health system strengths and challenges as they relate to malaria in pregnancy (MIP) in Malawi, Senegal and Zambia. Data were collected between 2009 and 2011 through desk reviews and key informant interviews. The data were subsequently analyzed across …
Healthy Fertility Study: Operations Research to Address Unmet Need for Contraception in the Postpartum Period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh Final Report
This report presents findings from the 36-month postpartum follow-up survey of the study “Operations research to address unmet need for contraception in the postpartum period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh,” also known as the “Healthy Fertility Study.” Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), this project began in 2007 as a partnership of the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and …
Postnatal Care Home Visit: A Review of the Current Status of Implementation in Five Countries
This report gives an account of the early development of community-based newborn programs in five countries—Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria and Rwanda—in which postnatal home visits have featured prominently.
Newborn care practices at home and in health facilities in four regions of Ethiopia
This article, co-authored by MCHIP staff and published in the journal BMC Pediatrics, describes newborn care practices reported by recently delivered women in four regions of Ethiopia based on results of a household survey among women who delivered a live baby in the period one to seven months prior to data collection. Survey results suggest that there are not large differences …
Indicator Guide: Monitoring and Evaluating Integrated Community Case Management
This guide aims to encourage integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) programs to more effectively monitor and evaluate iCCM implementation and results across all of the iCCM benchmark components. Aimed at program managers, M&E officers, researchers, and organizations supporting/implementing iCCM, specific objectives of this guide are to: Compile iCCM indicators useful across program components and phases; Encourage the consistent use of …