Fact sheet on demonstration centers established at existing facilities to serve as cross-learning sites, with technical support from MCHIP to strengthen the immunization system within these health facilities.
Establishing Demonstration Center for Cold Chain Management: Experience from Uttar Pradesh, India
Fact sheet on MCHIP’s demonstration center in Uttar Pradesh, India, which was developed as a demonstration center for cold chain management.
Establishing Model Routine Immunization Demonstration Center: Experience from Jharkhand, India
Fact sheet on MCHIP’s demonstration center in Jharkhand, India, which was developed as a model routine immunization demonstration center.
Maximizing synergies between maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and family planning
This technical brief outlines the rationale for aligning maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and family planning interventions, summarizes evidence on the relationship between these two areas, and provides an overview of opportunities to identify linkages and better integrate counseling and services across multiple interventions.
Child Survival and Health Grants Program Health Systems Strengthening Technical Reference Materials
This Technical Reference Materials (TRM) document is intended to serve as a basic introduction to Health System Strengthening (HSS) issues relevant to community-based child survival (CS) and health programs, and to facilitate access to key resources in each of the areas defined as Health System (HS) building blocks. In-depth technical, as well as contextual information is needed to apply many …
Successes and Challenges for Malaria in Pregnancy Programming: A Three-Country Analysis
MCHIP conducted program reviews of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) programming successes and challenges in Zambia, Senegal and Malawi, which resulted in three comprehensive country case studies. In addition, MCHIP developed a three-country analysis brief linking the results, recommendations and next steps across the three case studies, available below in English and French.
Postpartum IUD Learning Resource Package
This Postpartum Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (PPIUD) course aims to save lives by preparing a range of qualified service providers who can deliver high-quality PPIUD services as part of a comprehensive postpartum family planning program. Global PPIUD course materials are: Learner’s Handbook Trainer’s Guide Reference Manual These resources—available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish—can be downloaded here. (Second edition: July 2013)
Postpartum Family Planning Meeting Report: 14 Sept 2011
Drawing on the momentum from three previous technical meetings, the overall purpose of this meeting was to encourage the sharing of postpartum family planning programmatic strategies to advance the state-of-the-art and to capture lessons learned for programming.
Impact of New Vaccine Introduction on Developing Country Immunization Programs: A Review of the Grey Literature
As part of a multi-pronged effort to extract lessons and provide improved guidance to countries on new vaccine introduction, experiences described in the grey literature were identified and summarized.
Epidemiology of the Unimmunized Child: Findings from the Grey Literature
At the request of the World Health Organization, IMMUNIZATIONbasics, the global USAID-funded project that supports routine immunization, undertook a review of the “grey literature” on “the epidemiology of the unimmunized child.” This effort was complemented by partners working with information from other sources.