GHSP Journal

Although per policy all tiers of the Kenyan health care system should be able to provide an essential minimum package of services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), we found low prevalence of facility readiness, with the largest gaps at the lowest levels of the health care system (dispensaries and health centers).

Structured human-centered design processes facilitated substantive engagement and collaboration from both male supervisors and frontline female health workers in a highly gender-stratified setting to propose policy improvements for polio vaccination. CHWs valued the process enormously; most said it was the first time their insights had been considered, and they wanted more opportunities for such input.

This commentary outlines 4 practical lessons derived from analyzing a country-specific measure of wealth available for use in 68 countries, serving as axioms, or rules of thumb, for development practitioners to simplify questions related to identifying relative poverty and for informing project design and implementation. Dwelling building materials strongly indicate relative wealth or poverty.

A user-centered mobile health application, co-designed with frontline community health workers and local partners, was successfully deployed across community HIV programs in Ethiopia, supporting standardized case management and client-level data collection.

Tobacco control stakeholders in sub-Saharan Africa are supportive of tobacco endgame for the region that moves beyond controlling tobacco to ending the tobacco epidemic. The stakeholders believed that Afrocentric endgame strategies sensitive to culture and countries’ specific contexts are needed. Strategies focused on the user, product, supply, institutional structure, and legislation implementation were proposed.

Strengthening the provision of safe surgery in low- and middle-income countries is essential for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality; an expert consultation representing international organizations and donors and African universities collaboratively identified 15 research and learning priorities for obstetric care, fistula prevention and treatment, long-acting and permanent contraceptive methods, and cross-cutting safe surgery, covering preventative, care-seeking, perioperative, and...

The Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) program has contributed to an increase in iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation coverage across India between fiscal year 2018–2019 and 2022–2023, indicating a positive impact on addressing anemia. Significant improvements in IFA supplementation coverage were observed among specific groups, such as children, lactating mothers, and pregnant women, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions.

Uninterrupted service delivery during the transition between 2 donor-funded projects managed by different organizations but serving the same community was feasible by implementing strategic leadership that set a vision and engaged all stakeholders.

Local stakeholders at a tertiary referral hospital in rural Kenya identified neonatal sepsis as a significant problem at their facility and decided that disinfection of neonatal resuscitation equipment was the first step in addressing this issue. Adaptations were made in the ward to implement a steam-based high-level disinfection (HLD) process, which damaged single-use equipment, so this process was not sustainable at the hospital.

Integrating gender-based violence (GBV) services into HIV care entailed engaging stakeholders to ensure the integration process addressed the needs of GBV survivors, providing adequate health care provider training to identify GBV and provide support and care, developing standardized procedures for screening and identification of GBV cases, strengthening documentation of cases, and enhancing referral procedures for post-GBV care services.