With over 77 million people, Ethiopia has the second largest population in subSaharan Africa and it continues to grow rapidly. Though the country’s contraceptive prevalence rate grew from 8 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2005 and nearly 80 percent of currently-married Ethiopian women want to either stop or postpone childbearing, demand for contraception has grown faster than … [Read more...] about Scaling Up Community-Based Service Delivery of Implanon: The Integrated Family Health Program’s Experience Training Health Extension Workers
Human Resources for Health Country Profile: The Gambia
This report was created in 2009 by the African Health Workforce Observatory in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Alliance, and the European Union. It outlines the structure of the Gambian health system and introduces data on the health workforce, including distribution of health workforce, health workforce production and utilization, and … [Read more...] about Human Resources for Health Country Profile: The Gambia
Integrating Family Planning and HIV in Ethiopia: An Analysis of Pathfinder’s Approach and Scale-Up
Pathfinder International Ethiopia has extensive experience implementing family planning (FP)/HIV integration through public health centers (HCs) and community networks. This brief describes Pathfinder's approach and its evolution and scale-up over time. It presents their experience in relation to the recommendations of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on FP/HIV … [Read more...] about Integrating Family Planning and HIV in Ethiopia: An Analysis of Pathfinder’s Approach and Scale-Up
Evaluating active roles of community health workers in accelerating universal access to health services for malaria in Palawan, the Philippines
Palawan is the most malaria-endemic province in the Philippines. In an effort to confront malaria in areas with limited healthcare facilities, microscopists (community health workers) have been trained to diagnose malaria since 1999. Researchers reviewed the epidemiological data and related literature which analyzed the achievements of the microscopists and their tasks in order … [Read more...] about Evaluating active roles of community health workers in accelerating universal access to health services for malaria in Palawan, the Philippines
Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos
YouTube Link: Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos Introduction to Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos 30 March 2016 The census-based, impact-oriented (CBIO) approach to improving the health of communities emerged in Bolivia in the 1980s when I was working there with the … [Read more...] about Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos