Annuaire des Statistiques Sanitaires
The Government of Malawi’s Health Sector Strategic Plan II highlights the importance of service integration; however, in practice, this has not been fully realized. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation of efforts to systematically implement integrated family planning and immunization services i...n all health facilities and associated community sites in Ntchisi and Dowa districts during June 2016–September 2017. Methods included secondary analysis of service statistics (pre- and postintervention), focus group discussions with mothers and fathers of children under age one, and in-depth interviews with service providers, supervisors, and managers. Results indicate statistically significant increases in family planning users and shifts in use of family planning services from health facilities to community sites. The intervention had no effect on immunization doses administered or dropout rates. According to mothers and fathers, benefits of service integration included time savings, convenience, and improved understanding of services. Provision and use of integrated services were affected by availability of human resources and commodities, community linkages, data collection procedures and availability, sociocultural barriers, organization of services, and supervision and commitment of health surveillance assistants. The integration approach was perceived to be feasible and beneficial by clients and providers.
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A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by a matrix of social inequality whose axes —such as
socioeconomic stratum, gender, stage in the life cycle, ethnicity and race, territory, disability, and immigration
status— create multiple, often concurrent, situations of exclusion and discri...mination. The coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated wide social gaps and it is no coincidence that Latin America
and the Caribbean is one of the regions in which the health and socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic have
been the most severe, which shows that the costs of inequality are unsustainable
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Projet Santé Primaire LobayeLOBAYE, République centrafricaineL’endroit où se situe le Projet de santé primaire en Lobaye (PSPL), une préfecture de la République centrafricaine, esten territoire Aka, un peuple autochtone qui peine à avoir accès à des services de santé équitables non seul...ement à cause du conflit, mais aussi en raison de leur statut socio-économique. FAIRMED soutient la population locale avec la création d’un système de santé fonctionnel et durable afin qu’elle puisse vivre en meilleure santé
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Previous advocacy efforts have achieved tangible goals in terms garnering political commitments
to increase financing for TB—as seen at the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting on TB. The challenge
now is to ensure that these commitments are actually met within a global biomedical research
ecosystem that... is designed and incentivized to prioritize the health needs of wealthy populations
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Country profiles on urban health
Appui au Comité de Coordination Nationale des Programmes de Santé
La flambée de maladie à virus Ebola (MVE) se poursuit avec une intensité modérée. Katwa et Butembo demeurent les principales zones sanitaires inquiétantes, tandis que de petites grappes continuent d’apparaître dans diverses zones géographiquement dispersées. Au cours des 21 derniers jours... (6 - 26 février 2019), 77 nouveaux cas ont été notifiés dans 33 secteurs de neuf zones sanitaires (Figure 1) : Katwa (45), Butembo (19), Vuhovi (4), Kyondo (3), Kalunguta (2), Oicha (1), Beni (1), Mandima (1) et Rwampara (1).
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