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- 10 Key Findings and Recommendations for Effective Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment Programs
In early 2007, partners of the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention met to assess newly analyzed results of key studies in India, Peru, South Africa, and Thailand. These new data spurred the partners to outline ten key findings and recommendations for global policy and practice related to cervical cancer screening and treatment in low-resource settings.
Publication date: April 2007
Region: Global
- 2008 Annual Report: Where Solutions Start
PATH's 2008 annual report centers on the theme of solutions, illustrating how our programs translate the world's knowledge, skill, and capacity into solutions that truly meet the needs of the communities we serve. The report includes stories from the field and information about PATH's finances, locations, partners, and supporters.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
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- About Meningitis
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Accelerating Progress Toward Malaria Vaccines
This publication documents the challenges that the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative is facing in developing a malaria vaccine that will be efficacious for different malaria strains and endemic regions.
Publication date: 2007
Region: Global
- Accelerating the Development of New Rotavirus Vaccines
This fact sheet highlights PATH's work to develop new vaccines against rotavirus, the leading cause of diarrheal disease.
- Accelerating Vaccine Development to Save Lives
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- ACCP Strategies for Supporting Women With Cervical Cancer
This report provides an overview of current issues relating to cancer treatment in developing countries, followed by descriptions of existing support for cancer patients in countries where ACCP has worked and the support provided by ACCP projects. Finally, this report provides recommendations, based on ACCP experiences, for the provision of basic assistance at the national or local level to women with cervical cancer, within the context of a prevention-based intervention in low-resource settings.
Author: White SC; Winkler JL; ACCP Community Involvement Affinity Group
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Achieving Effective Sharps Waste Management in GAVI Host Countries
This document presents an analysis of safer sharps-waste management activities, including practical options using available or emerging technologies. The analysis includes an estimate of the baseline burden of disease from unsafe injection practices, the proposed solutions' potential impact on burden of disease, and a cost-effectiveness analysis of the proposed solutions.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Global
- Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor (AMTSL) Learning Materials
The USAID-funded Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative developed a learning package on the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage consisting of a reference manual, participant’s notebook, and facilitator’s guide. This learning package was developed for use by nurses, midwives, and doctors providing childbirth and immediate postpartum care. Information about implementing active management of the third stage of labor is featured in this reference manual as well as the corresponding participant’s notebook and facilitator’s guide. The reference manuals and facilitators' guides are available as one large file and also in smaller sections for easier downloading.
Author: Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI)
Publication date: 2007
Region: Global
- Active Management of Third Stage of Labour: A Clinical Tutorial
PATH's Maternal and Newborn Health Technology Initiative, in collaboration with South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Department of Health, produced this essential training video on active management of the third stage of labor. Using real clinical footage, this video presents the information, skills, and practices that birth attendants need to routinely provide this life-saving intervention and prevent postpartum hemorrhage. To obtain free copies of the video in high resolution, please email a request to publications@path.org. For optimal viewing of the low-resolution versions posted here, save the files to your hard drive by right-clicking on the links below and selecting “Save target as." Please note: the Clinical Tutorial and Core Topics files require Windows Media Player, available as a free download from Microsoft.
Publication date: January 2008
Region: Global
- Activities and Stakeholders in the Global Water Sector: A Preliminary Analysis
This is part of a series of project briefs discussing the activities, research findings, and field experiences of PATH’s Safe Water Project. The project briefs are available in two formats: one for onscreen viewing and one for booklet-style printing.
- Adaptation of Immunoassays for Multiplexed Diagnosis of a Diverse Panel of Pathogens Associated With Acute Febrile Illness
This poster summarizes PATH’s recent activities as part of a consortium lead by the University of Washington to develop the DxBox, a system comprising a portable instrument and low-cost disposable cards. The prototype is being developed to diagnose typhoid fever, dengue fever, rickettsial diseases, malaria, measles, and influenza. PATH’s contributions are immunoassay development, field studies, and user needs assessment. Presented at The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), November 12, 2006; Atlanta, GA.
- Adolescent Reproductive Health: Making a Difference (Outlook, vol. 16, no. 3)
- Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website
Developed by PATH and Stanford University, the AIM website features modules on four immunization topics: introducing hepatitis B vaccine, introducing Japanese encephalitis vaccine, immunization financing, and an Excel tutorial. Three new modules are in development and are expected to be released in late 2008. These will address meningitis A vaccine, rotavirus vaccine, and a strategic planning for measles control (including the World Health Organization's measles strategic planning tool). An updated Japanese encephalitis module will also be available in late 2008. The website is designed for use in low-bandwidth settings, and the content is also available on CD-ROM.
- Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Financing
The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module helps immunization program managers recognize why financial planning is important for their immunization program, define the key characteristics of the vaccine market, identify and cost relevant expenditures, develop a budget and plan, and identify which financing strategy options would be best for their program.
- Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Hepatitis B
The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module will help senior policymakers understand hepatitis B and how immunization programs can decrease hepatitis B virus infection. It also provides information on how to add hepatitis B vaccine to an immunization program and how to manage the addition of a new vaccine.
- Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Measles
The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module supports use of the World Health Organization's computer-based Measles Strategic Planning tool. This tool helps program managers make informed decisions about measles vaccination strategies, estimate the current population immunity profile for measles, understand the probable impact of vaccination strategies on future measles cases and deaths, and assess cost considerations of different vaccination strategies.
- Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Rotavirus
The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module provides comprehensive information from basic rotavirus disease characteristics through immunization session planning for rotavirus vaccine introduction.
- Advances in Reproductive Health
This fact sheet describes PATH's work in reproductive health.
- Advancing New Technologies Against a Global Threat
This fact sheet highlights PATH's work to advance development of new vaccines against seasonal and pandemic influenza.
Publication date: March 2008
Region: Global
- Advocacy to Improve Global Health: Strategies and Stories From the Field
By influencing the priorities and actions of those in power, PATH works to create a policy environment that supports good health. This workbook provides examples of how PATH uses ten key steps for strategic advocacy to achieve lasting policy change. The collection of stories are intended to serve as a resource to help global health implementers and advocates more deliberately develop strategies to achieve policy goals.
- Affordable Technologies for Health
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention Website
Launched in 2002, this website provides information on the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention, of which PATH is a member.
- An Integrated Approach to Confronting Diarrheal Disease
This briefing paper provides an overview of the tools and interventions involved with an integrated approach to diarrheal disease control, including vaccines, oral rehydration, breastfeeding, and zinc treatment. The document also advocates for renewed commitment at global, regional, and national levels.
- An Investigation Into the Context of Use and Functionality of Neonatal Resuscitator Devices
A HealthTech report evaluating neonatal resuscitators.
- Analysis of WHO Policy Development Process for a New Intervention
This document presents the World Health Organization's analyss of policy-development processes for new interventions.
- Anemia Detection in Health Services: Guidelines for Program Managers
Anemia detection is often used as a screening test for iron deficiency. These guidelines are intended to help program managers establish anemia detection services or enhance existing services.
Publication date: 1996
Region: Global
- Anemia Detection Methods in Low-Resource Settings: A Manual for Health Workers
Publication date: 1997
Region: Global
- Annotated Bibliography on Delivery Kits
This annotated bibliography provides a brief summary and citation information for published materials that are relevant to clean-delivery kits.
- Antiretroviral Products for HIV Prevention: Looking Toward 2031
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. This paper explores issues surrounding the use of antiretroviral products for the prevention of HIV, including how antiretrovirals might be used to prevent infection and potential issues emerging from such use.
Part of series: aids2031 working papers
Author: Mastro T, Cates W, Cohen M
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- Are You Experienced? Using the Lessons Learned From Marketing Research on Consumer Experience to Improve the Research and Development of New HIV Prevention Technologies
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. This paper examines the process of research and development for new HIV prevention technologies and their eventual adoption by consumers of such technologies.
- Assessing Ultra Rice
This document briefly examines some of the research that has been conducted on Ultra Rice. From positive consumer acceptance and nutrient retention studies to impressive efficacy trials on improving vitamin A and iron levels, Ultra Rice has been proven to be an effective, low-cost rice fortification technology.
Publication date: November 2007
Region: Global
- Autodisposable Syringes and Sharps Disposal Containers with DMPA
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
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- Basic Delivery Kit Guide
This comprehensive manual provides information about multiple aspects of delivery kit projects. Detailed discussions and practical work tools help programs decide whether they should develop a basic delivery kit project -- and, if so, how they can plan, assemble, distribute, and promote the kits. The guide is available for downloading as one large file or as seven smaller files.
- Birthweigh III
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on the BIRTHweigh III scale.
- Breast Cancer: Increasing Incidence, Limited Options (Outlook, vol. 19, no 4 revised)
- Breastfeeding and Diarrhea
This fact sheet aims to raise awareness about breastfeeding to prevent and treat diarrhea. One in a set of introductory resources, it provides stakeholders and policymakers in the world’s poorest countries with crucial information on a proven intervention in the fight against diarrheal disease.
- Bridging the Gap
Sent every other month, the Bridging the Gap e-newsletter is designed for individual supporters. It highlights new projects, stories from the field, and reports on the impact of our work. It's a source for events and updates, keeping people who are committed to global health in the loop and offering ways to get involved.
- Bringing New Health Technologies Within Reach for Everyone
This document describes PATH’s approach to maximizing the availability, accessibility, and affordability of technologies through private-sector collaboration.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
- Building a Protected Sharps Barrel
This document explains how to correctly build a protected sharps barrel for the disposal of waste.
- Building a Protected Sharps Pit
This document explains how to correctly build a protected sharps pit for the disposal of waste.
- Building Connections: Understanding Relationships and Networks to Improve Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs
Building Connections describes the structures and dynamics of relationships and networks, and of program approaches that influence youth behaviors. It is designed for field application by program practitioners, researchers, and academics interested in familiarizing themselves with the concepts and practice of social network research. The document is available for downloading as one large file or two smaller files.
- Building the Future of Immunization: The Children's Vaccine Program Annual Report
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
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- Caring for People Living with HIV/AIDS (Outlook, vol. 19, no. 2)
- The Case for Childhood Immunization
- The Case for Investing in Cervical Cancer Prevention
This document provides evidence on cervical cancer's burden of disease and the importance of women
Part of series: Cervical Cancer Prevention: Issues in Depth
Author: Sherris J; Castro W; Levin C; Dzuba I; Arossi S
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- The Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
This poster and accompanying handout, presented by the IYCN Project at the 10th Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Congress on Diarrhoea & Malnutrition in August 2009, make a case for investing in prevention of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) rather than in the universal introduction of SAM treatment.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Global
- CD4+ T-lymphocyte Test
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on a CD4+ T-lymphocyte test.
- Center for Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Global Health Website
The website for the Center for Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Global Health (GHDx Center) provides an overview of the GHDx Center’s activities and announces training and funding opportunities related to its goals. The GHDx Center works to improve the availability, accessibility, and affordability of essential point-of-care diagnostic tests for use in low-resource settings around the world.
- Cervical Cancer Prevention Initiatives at PATH: Two Decades of Progress Toward a World Free of HPV-Related Cancers
PATH’s key areas of work in cervical cancer prevention are described in depth in this 12-page publication.
Publication date: August 2008
Region: Global
- Cervical Cancer Prevention Small Grants Program
PATH's cervical cancer vaccine project is sponsoring a small grants program to broaden the evidence base for decision-making about cervical cancer prevention in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The program has been divided into four areas to best address high-priority questions: sociocultural research, health system assessment for vaccine delivery strategy design, evaluating HPV vaccine delivery strategies, and cervical cancer screening.
Publication date: December 2007
Region: Global
- Cervical Cancer Vaccine Project
This fact sheet provides a basic description of the PATH Cervical Cancer Vaccine Project designed to strengthen the capacity of developing countries in the prevention of cervical cancer.
- Cervical Cancer, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV Vaccines: Key Points for Policy-Makers and Health Professionals
This booklet summarizes and updates the World Health Organization (WHO) document Human Papillomavirus and HPV Vaccine: Technical Information for Policy-Makers and Health Professionals and the WHO/UNFPA guidance note Preparing for the Introduction of HPV Vaccines—Policy and Programme Guidance for Countries. They are available in the STIs/RTIs section of the WHO website.
Publication date: 2007
Region: Global
- Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS
This two-page policy brief discusses the benefits of breastfeeding in light of the risk of perinatal HIV transmission. Recommendations include increasing adoption of recent World Health Oragnization guidelines on infant feeding and HIV and extending support to cover the first two years of life.
Publication date: March 2008
Region: Global
- Chemically-Heated Non-Instrumented Nucleic-Acid Amplification Assay Platform
An overview of a diagnostic platform that PATH is developing based on nucleic-acid amplification that will require no instrumentation. It has the dual purpose of providing molecular diagnostics at the point of care as well as stabilizing nucleic-acid specimens for further analysis via a centralized surveillance system. Presented at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry 40th Annual Oak Ridge Conference, April 17, 2008; San Jose, CA.
- Childhood Immunization: What You Need to Know - A Handbook for Health Workers and Parents
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on the use of chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care.
- Choosing Male Sterilization (Outlook, vol. 21, no. 3)
This issue of Outlook looks primarily at vasectomy as a contraceptive option for men. A number of important topics related to this theme are addressed, including no-scalpel vasectomy, no-scalpel vs. conventional vasectomy, choosing vasectomy, cost, vasectomy in developing countries, possible side effects and complications, regret, reversibility, and other strategies for male contraception.
- Clean Delivery Kit Workshop Manual
Publication date: 2000
Region: Global
- Clean Delivery Kit Workshop Report Introduction
Publication date: 2000
Region: Global
- Clean Delivery Kit: a Timeline of PATH's Involvement
This document provides a timeline of the Clean Delivery Kit project at PATH.
Publication date: 2007
Region: Global
- Clean-Delivery Kits: Guidelines for Their Use in Programmatic Settings
This two-page document outlines basic programmatic guidelines for the use of clean-delivery kits in international settings. It includes a discussion of kit contents, an overview of research on the effectiveness of kits, principles of clean delivery, issues related to production of local kits, and information about ordering preassembled kits.
- Cleaning and Disinfection of Thermal Cautery Equipment
This job aid discusses cleaning and disinfection of thermal cautery equipment for vasectomy.
- Clinical Trials: Crucial Steps on the Road to a Malaria Vaccine
- Cold Chain Equipment Manager (CCEM)
Coming soon! CCEM version 2.0 will be available in October 2009. The Cold Chain Equipment Manager (CCEM) is an open-source, Microsoft Access-based software tool. CCEM is accompanied by a user manual, data collection questionnaires, a surveyor’s guide to these questionnaires, and an equipment identification guide. CCEM also comes with practice files, providing new users with practice data to demonstrate how CCEM will analyze cold chain equipment data and facilitate multiyear equipment planning. CCEM 2.0 will be available for download in October 2009 and will also be available on CD; email publications@path.org to request a copy. For more information, please see the CCEM project description.
Publication date: March 2009
Region: Global
- Cold Chain Technologies
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the current project on cold chain technologies at PATH.
- Commercial Approaches to Providing Safe Water in India: A Literature Review
This is part of a series of project briefs discussing the activities, research findings, and field experiences of PATH’s Safe Water Project. The briefs are available in two formats: one for onscreen viewing and one for booklet-style printing.
- Common Virus and Senseless Killer: Briefing Paper on Rotavirus
This briefing paper underscores the burden of rotavirus and highlights the promise of vaccines to combat the virus as the global health community prepares for worldwide introduction.
Publication date: March 2009
Region: Global
- Community Engagement in HIV Prevention Trials: Evolution of the Field and Opportunities for Growth
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. The paper explores progress made in engaging communities in biomedical research and highlights areas where continued progress is needed.
Part of series: aids2031 working papers
Author: West Slevin K, Ukpong M, Heise L
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- Community Outreach and Peer Education for HIV and AIDS Prevention: The AIDS Surveillance and Education Project in the Philippines
Author: Aquino C; D'Agnes L; Castro J; Borromeo M; Schmidt K; Gill K
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Conclusions From ACCP Clinical Research in Developing Countries
This ACCP Cervical Cancer Prevention Fact Sheet summarizes the major findings and conclusions from ACCP research on organized cervical cancer prevention programs, alternative screening methods, treatment methods for precancerous lesions, and cost-effectiveness of screen-and-treat programs.
- Considerations for Building a Protected Sharps Pit Using a Plastic Barrel as a Pit Liner
In this document you will find a one page description and drawing of steps to consider when building a sharps pit with a plastic barrel as a pit liner.
- Contraceptive Methods in Focus: IUDs, Implants, and Oral Contraceptives (Outlook, vol. 21, no. 1)
Despite an increase in demand and availability, access to contraceptive use remains a challenge to many due to a variety of barriers. For health care providers and counselors, providing the most up-to-date information concerning contraceptive choices is critical for ensuring clients are able to make the best decisions about their reproductive needs. This issue of Outlook addresses several topics related to contraceptive methods, including trends in contraceptive use, the underutilization of IUDs, the increase in options for contraceptive implants, combined oral contraceptives, and new options in hormonal contraception.
- Current and Future HPV Vaccines: Promise and Challenges
This 72-page document offers an in-depth look at vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV), both currently available vaccines and those in development, including therapeutic vaccines. The document includes an examination of programmatic issues relevant to developing countries.
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- Delivery Kit
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes delivery kit work at PATH.
- Designing Safe Syringe Disposal Systems for Immunization Services: A Guide for Program Managers
- Detection and Characterization of Acute Febrile Illness in Western Kenya
This poster presents a study to collect and characterize specimens from febrile patients who were suspected to have malaria, pedigree specimens against a panel of nucleic acid and serological markers, and draw early insights into data that would be generated by a multiplex diagnostic platform. Presented at The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, December 7, 2008; New Orleans, LA.
- Developing a Point-of-Care Multiplexed Diagnostic System for Low-Resource Settings in Developing Countries
A report on the selection and evaluation of target markers for a multiplex diagnostic platform under development. Based on the DxBox platform being developed as part of a public-private consortium lead by the University of Washington. Presented at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, March 25, 2008; San Francisco, CA.
- Developing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs that Meet Women's Needs
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Developing Materials on HIV/AIDS/STIs for Low-Literate Audiences: A Guide
This publication is a comprehensive discussion of developing print materials for programs to use to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. It is available for downloading as one large file or as five smaller files.
Author: Zimmerman M; Larivee C; Quiroga R; Gopinath CY; Ringheim K; Wood S; Wilson A; Daunas P; Bruce L; Sedlak P
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Developing New Vaccines Against Diarrheal Disease
This fact sheet highlights PATH's work to develop safe, effective, and affordable vaccines against Shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, two of the leading bacterial causes of diarrheal disease.
- Developing New Vaccines Against Pneumonia
This fact sheet highlights PATH's work to develop new vaccines against pneumococcal disease, one of the leading causes of death in children less than five in the developing world.
Publication date: March 2008
Region: Global
- Development of a Freeze-Stable Formulation for Vaccines Containing Aluminum Salt Adjuvants
This article was published in Vaccine, Volume 27, Issue 1, Jones Braun L, Tyagi A, Perkins S, et al, Development of a freeze-stable formulation for vaccines containing aluminum salt adjuvants, pp. 72-79, Copyright Elsevier (2009). The journal may be accessed at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X.
- Device for Automated Capture of E. coli O157:H7 From Feces: Feasibility for Point-of-Care Detection
This poster reports progress incorporating magnetic beads within a unique lab card that permits efficient capture and enrichment of E. coli O157:H7 from feces. Presented at the 106th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 21, 2006; Orlando, FL.
- Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer
Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer presents scientific evidence to support strategies to scale up use of interventions, including safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene, breastfeeding and optimal complementary feeding, rotavirus vaccines, zinc treatment, and oral rehydration therapy/oral rehydration solution. In addition, the report features case studies of on-the-ground programs that bring these tools to communities that need them most. The document is available as one large file or as three smaller files for easier downloading.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2004)
The January 2004 issue of PATH's programmatic newsletter focuses on five projects: preventing HIV and AIDS in the Philippines, evaluating a malaria vaccine candidate, increasing youth access to services through pharmacies, advancing the Ultra Rice technology, and using theater to encourage social change.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2004)
This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles five PATH projects: Entre Amigas, which is reaching young adolescent girls in Nicaragua with reproductive health and life skills; the Healthy Start for a Healthy Life project, which is improving the care of newborns in Indonesia; the Ukraine TB project, which is implementing training and IEC activities to control tuberculosis; PATH's Children's Vaccine Program, which is managing medical waste in Nepal; and the Horizons program, which is influencing gender norms among young men in Brazil.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2004)
The September 2004 issue of PATH's programmatic newsletter focuses on five projects: PATH's Children's Vaccine Program, which is strengthening immunization in Senegal, Cambodia, and India; evaluation of the SolarChill refrigerator, which is using solar power to fuel the cold chain; our cervical cancer work in Kenya and Peru, as part of the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention; the Program for Advancement of Commercial Technology--Child and Reproductive Health (PACT-CRH), which is transferring health technologies to India's private sector; and results from three evaluations of clean home delivery kits used in Nepal and Tanzania.
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
Author: PATH
Publication date: September 2004
Region: Global
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2005)
The April 2005 issue of Directions in Global Health features five PATH projects: efforts to improve health among migrant communities in China, Thailand, and Cambodia; the Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH's Woman's Condom, procurement of safe-injection supplies under the PEPFAR program, and the Rotavirus Vaccine Program.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2005)
The August 2005 issue of Directions in Global Health features five PATH projects: our work with in- and out-of-school youth as part of the African Youth Alliance, a new test for vitamin A deficiency, HIV prevention among vulnerable groups in Georgia, cost analysis of rapid syphilis tests, and home-based care of people living with AIDS in South Africa.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 2, Issue 3, December 2005)
The December 2005 issue of Directions in Global Health features five projects: PATH's Japanese encephalitis project, our collaboration with WHO on gender-based violence, a "lab-on-a-card" technology for detecting enteric disease, new HPV DNA tests for detecting cervical cancer, and an innovative behavior-change project that is helping prevent HIV in Eritrea.
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
Author: PATH
Publication date: December 2005
Region: Global
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2006)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH's work in malaria prevention and control. It describes PATH's partnerships, experience in Zambia, clinical trial activities, efforts to prepare for vaccine introduction, and advocacy efforts.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 3, Issue 2, August 2006)
This issue of Directions in Global Health features five PATH projects: our collaboration with the World Health Organization on the Meningitis Vaccine Project; prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Ukraine; a small grants program that is catalyzing behavior change in Africa; the Inter-Act project, which is training truck drivers to slow the HIV epidemic in India; and an evaluation of neonatal resuscitators.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 3, Issue 3, December 2006)
This issue of Directions in Global Health features five PATH projects: preparing for an avian influenza outbreak in Ukraine and Georgia; improving nevirapine packaging for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission; preventing postpartum hemorrhage through the POPPHI initiative; increasing access to safe abortion in Nepal; and supportive supervision of immunization programs in Vietnam.
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
Author: PATH
Publication date: December 2006
Region: Global
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2007)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH's vaccine partnership efforts: PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), pneumococcal vaccine development project, Meningitis Vaccine Project, cervical cancer vaccine project, and Rotavirus Vaccine Program. The issue also features a case study of the vaccine vial monitor.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2007)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH's work in women's health. Featured projects include Sure Start; the Maternal and Newborn Health Technology Initiative; the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative; Global Campaign for Microbicides; SILCS diaphragm; the PATH Woman's Condom; microbicide applicators; AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance II Western Province; and Spring Bud Healthy Development.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 3, January 2008)
This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles five aspects of PATH's work: our regional efforts to control tuberculosis, the development of and new applications for the Uniject device, a study evaluating storage of hepatitis B vaccine outside of the cold chain, promotion of condom use among young people, and PATH's procurement team.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 5, Issue 1, May 2008)
This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles our effort to expand access to safe water, particularly in India; a project to improve nutrition for infants and young children; our thermostable vaccine work; surveillance activities for Japanese encephalitis; and our work under the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2008)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health describes PATH's work on HIV/AIDS. Featured projects focus on implementing interactive communication techniques that promote healthier behaviors, strengthening health systems to address the dual epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis, protecting youth against HIV, challenging gender norms to reduce the spread of HIV, and advancing innovative technologies for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2008)
This issue of Directions in Global Health describes PATH's work to control and prevent diarrheal disease, reach out to young scouts in Kenya and Uganda with HIV/AIDS information, assess the impact of malaria control efforts in Zambia, conduct DHS surveys, and shape HPV vaccine introduction in Peru.
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
Author: PATH
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 6, Issue 1, May 2009)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH’s work to advance technologies to improve global health. Featured technologies include low-cost tests to screen for cervical cancer, a new vaccine to protect against meningitis in Africa, products to prevent diarrheal disease, and Ultra Rice food fortification technology. The issue also includes a summary of PATH’s approach to developing and introducing innovative health technologies.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 6, Issue 2, August 2009)
This issue of Directions in Global Health showcases PATH’s global presence. It highlights work related to influenza in Africa, HIV and AIDS in Eastern Europe, Japanese encephalitis in Asia, gender-based violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, and diagnostic technologies in North America. The back cover features a map and summary information on PATH’s work around the world.
- Disposable Enterics Card
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the disposable entrics card project at PATH.
- Disposable-Syringe Jet Injection
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on designing the next generation of jet injectors.
- Dry-Reagent Storage for Disposable Lab-on-Card Diagnosis of Enteric Pathogens
An exploration of one technique for drying reagents onto a microfluidics card. Reagents needed for immunocapture, lysis, and PCR for pathogen capture can be stored in trehalose or trehalose dextran. Presented at the 1st Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare Conference, April 2, 2006; Arlington, VA.
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- Effectiveness, Safety and Acceptability of Cryotherapy: A Systematic Literature Review
The main objective of the review was to examine the available data on the effectiveness, safety, and acceptability of cryotherapy, and to communicate the evidence base to health professionals and policy makers in developing countries.
Part of series: Cervical Cancer Prevention: Issues in Depth
Author: Castro W; Gage J; Gaffikin L; Ferreccio C; Sellors J; Sherris J; Blumenthal P
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Effects of Freezing on Vaccine Potency: Literature Review
This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Efficacy of Standard Methods for Water Testing at a Range of Nonstandard Temperature
Fifteen strains of Escherichia coli from various geographical areas, animal, and soil sources were tested on standard and nonstandard detection assays at temperatures from 23°C to 45°C to test the viability of currently available E. coli tests in low-resource settings. Presented at the American Society for Microbiology Conference, June 1, 2008; Boston, MA.
- Emerging Trends in HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. This paper explores issues that could be included in a future research agenda to enhance drug development for HIV/AIDS, including the optimal time to begin antiretroviral therapy, appropriate dosing of antiretrovirals, possible implications of HIV on advanced aging, and an exploration of recent challenges in drug development.
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Author: Becker S
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- EMPOWER fact sheets
These fact sheets describe a PATH project focused on expanding prevention options for women.
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Encouraging Healthy Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors (Outlook, vol. 22, no. 3)
This issue of Outlook focuses on using behavior change communication (BCC) to encourage healthy individual and societal behaviors related to sexual and reproductive health. It also addresses the challenges and importance of monitoring and evaluating BCC programs.
- Enhancing Equity and Sustainability of Public-Sector Family Planning
These fact sheets provide an overview of the rationale, framework, and key concepts of PATH's Enhancing Equity and Sustainability of Public-Sector Family Planning project, funded by the Fred H. Bixby Foundation. This reproductive health project aims to strengthen country-led, public-sector decision-making for family planning within a total market context and will be implemented in Nicaragua and Vietnam.
Publication date: March 2009
Region: Global
- Ensuring Contraceptive Supply Security (Outlook, vol. 20, no. 3)
International assistance for family planning has been shrinking at a time when many family planning programs in developing countries are experiencing shortages of supplies. This issue of Outlook discusses contraceptive supply security, including its critical components, the current status of funding, causes of contraceptive shortages, and challenges and promising approaches to achieving supply security.
- Ensuring Privacy and Confidentiality in Reproductive Health Services: A Training Module and Guide for Service Providers
A growing body of research supports that protection of privacy and confidentiality is a priority factor in whether clients access RH information, counseling, and services. Whe clients experience violations of privacy or confidentiality they are more likely to drop out of services. This manual is designed to enable clinic staff at all levels to better support and protect the right of clients to privacy and confidentiality. It includes a training module; job aids; and supporting documents (that includes a list of resources related to privacy and confidentiality).
- Ensuring the Availability of Reproductive Health Supplies
This case profile highlights a suite of supply-chain projects in reproductive health that serve as examples of PATH's efforts in strengthening health systems. Key issues related to the availability, affordability, and quality of reproductive health supplies are summarized along with PATH’s efforts to improve manufacturing, purchasing, and distribution of reproductive health supplies globally.
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health: Guiding Principles for Inclusion on National Medicines Lists
WHO, UNFPA, and other agencies have collaborated to establish a common nonproprietary list of essential reproductive health medicines. This introductory guide is a companion to that work and provides an overview of the process for including reproductive health medicines on national essential medicines lists at the country level based on the essential medicines concept. The guide also presents the rationale for including these medicines on national essential medicines lists.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Evaluation of a Retractable Syringe in South Africa: Acceptability, Safety, and Cost Implications
In 2006 and 2007, PATH assessed the acceptability, perception of safety, effect on waste management, and cost implications of using retractable syringes in immunization and curative settings in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The research included focus group discussions and individual interviews, observations, an anonymous questionnaire, and a spreadsheet-based model to estimate costs, benefits, and cost-effectiveness.
Publication date: September 2007
Region: Global
- Evidence of Vaccine Freezing in the Cold Chain
This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
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- Fact Sheet: Plasmodium vivax Malaria
- Falciparum Malaria IC Strip Test
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Female Condom: A Powerful Tool for Protection
More than 100 experts from 15 countries met in Baltimore, Maryland, in September 2005 at the Global Consultation on the Female Condom (GCFC) to discuss the status of the female condom worldwide and to develop a plan of action to build support for the method. This document answers key questions about the female condom and builds on the momentum created at the GCFC by presenting evidence of the female condom's effectiveness and impact, identifying current challenges to wider use, and indicating the steps that need to be taken now to develop strong female condom programs worldwide.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- The Female Condom: Significant Potential for STI and Pregnancy Prevention (Outlook, vol. 22, no. 2)
This issue of Outlook provides new information about the female condom as presented at the September 2005 Global Consultation on the Female Condom. Topics include evidence of the female condom's effectiveness for prevention of STIs and pregnancy, issues related to expanding access and use, and gaps in the knowledge base. Successful program examples and a detailed table of female condoms currently available or under development are also presented.
- Field Evaluation of the Acceptability and Feasibility of Syringe Melters in Indonesia
In 2006, PATH conducted a field evaluation of three syringe melters temporarily placed in five health centers in Kulon Progo District, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The evaluation assessed the performance of the devices, acceptability by health workers, fit into the existing waste-management system, and potential design modifications. The evaluation demonstrated that, while feasible, the introduction of syringe melting into an existing health care waste management system may require significant shifts in waste-management practices.
Publication date: May 2007
Region: Global
- Final Report: Evaluation of Three Reuse-Prevention Feature Reconstitution Syringes in Three Districts of Indonesia
In 2007, UNICEF asked PATH to conduct a field evaluation of three World Health Organization prequalified reuse-prevention feature syringes used for vaccine reconstitution during a measles campaign on Lombok, Indonesia. The evaluation sought to identify the training and introduction requirements of these syringes and establish an understanding of their acceptability, performance, and safety during field use.
Publication date: November 2007
Region: Global
- Findings From Investigation of User Experience With Household Water Treatment and Storage Products in Andhra Pradesh, India
This is part of a series of project briefs discussing the activities, research findings, and field experiences of PATH’s Safe Water Project. The briefs are available in two formats: one for onscreen viewing and one for booklet-style printing.
- The First 55 Steps: Report of the Microbicide Development Strategy’s Civil Society Working Group
This report provides an overview of the status of civil-society engagement in each phase of microbicide research, development, and introduction and identifies the resources and specific action steps needed to move from the current level of engagement to where we need to be. .
- Fortified Rice for the Midday Meal: A Case Study of Ultra Rice in a Naandi Kitchen in Andhra Pradesh
This case study highlights PATH's work with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Naandi Foundation to introduce iron-fortified Ultra Rice into the Government of India's midday meal program in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The pilot project provides iron-fortified lunches each day to 61,000 school-aged children.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Fragile Lives - Immunization at Risk
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Framework for Conducting a Self-Assessment of National Progress in Injection Waste Management, Version 1
This tool was developed to provide a simple, efficient framework for conducting a self-assessment of health care waste-management (HCWM) planning at the national level. By collecting data on key achievements, knowledge, and practices at the district and national levels, the framework allows programs to quickly aggregate data, highlight trends, and identify gaps. A national-level workshop then provides the opportunity to outline next steps for moving the revised HCWM planning agenda forward.
Publication date: May 2008
Region: Global
- Funding Innovation: PATH’s Use of Flexible Funding in 2007
This report shares highlights of PATH's use of flexible funding in 2007.
Publication date: May 2008
Region: Global
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- Games for Adolescent Reproductive Health: An International Handbook
Author: Hendrix-Jenkins A; Clark S; Gerber W; LeFevre J; Quiroga R
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- GC News
The Global Campaign for Microbicides helps advocates worldwide stay up to date on the latest microbicide news with their monthly electronic newsletter, GC News. GC News is a forum for international exchange on microbicide activities and information, with the aim of building a more informed and integrated movement for microbicide development and other options for prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Part of series: E-newsletters
Author: Global Campaign for Microbicides
Publication date: 2009
Region: Global
- Gender Inequities and Women's Health (Outlook, vol. 16, no. 4)
- Gentamicin in Uniject
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the gentamicin in Uniject project at PATH.
- Giving Safe Injections: Introducing Auto-Disable Syringes: Training Manual
- Giving Safe Injections: Using Auto-Disable Syringes for Immunization
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Global Access to Lifesaving Vaccines
This fact sheet describes PATH's work in vaccines and immunization.
- Global Campaign for Microbicides Website
Launched in 2004, this website provides information about microbicides and the work of the Global Campaign for Microbicides to accelerate access to new HIV-prevention options. Many materials are available on the website in English, French, Spanish, and Russian.
- Global Inventory of Neonatal Resuscitators
The purpose of this global inventory is to provide manufacturer and product information on all neonatal/infant manual resuscitators available worldwide. This inventory includes information on two types of resuscitators: bag and mask, and tube and mask.
- Global Resources for Health Care Waste Management (HCWM)
This table was developed under the Making Medical Injections Safer project, which PATH partners on in the areas of health care waste management (HCWM) and procurement technical assistance. The table provides brief summaries and contact information on many of the organizations that are actively engaged in HCWM throughout the developing world. It is intended to be a resource for country programs and governments seeking funding to support HCWM activities at the country level.
Publication date: April 2009
Region: Global
- Global Survey on Management of the Third Stage of Labor Reports
These studies aim to provide ministries of health and their partners with data about the actual practice of active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL), including policy, provider support, and supplies and logistics, along with the descriptive information necessary to assess AMTSL practices and identify barriers to its use in their country.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- The Growing Chronic Disease Burden: Implications for Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 26, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook discusses the emerging chronic disease burden in developing countries with a focus on cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and the risk factor of obesity. The newsletter addresses relationships between chronic diseases and reproductive health, such as hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy, and contraceptive choice for women with cardiovascular conditions and risk factors.
- A Guide to Participatory Monitoring of Behavior Change Communication for HIV/AIDS: Getting the Community and Program Staff Involved in Assessing and Improving Programs
This guide was designed to help managers and behavior change communication specialists support program staff, particularly those in the field, by providing a step-by-step process for how to develop a monitoring system that is responsive to the needs of local partners, program staff, and managers.
- Guidelines for Implementing Supportive Supervision: A Step-by-Step Guide with Tools to Support Immunization
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Guiding Principles for Managing Medical Waste
This document provides a brief overview of key considerations for developing a medical waste-management plan at the facility, district, and national levels.
Publication date: February 2005
Region: Global
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- Has Your Vaccine Been Damaged by Freezing? Shake Test Instructions
Poster describing how to conduct the shake test to determine whether a vaccine has been frozen. This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Has Your Vaccine Been Damaged by Freezing? Shake Test Instructions for Uniject
Poster describing how to conduct the shake test to determine whether a vaccine in Uniject has been frozen. This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Health and Hope for People in Need
This brochure provides a general overview of PATH's approach and focus areas. It is designed for distribution to general audiences.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- HealthTech Historical Profile: Technologies for Injection Safety
This document provides an historical overview of PATH's work on technologies for injection safety.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- A HealthTech Reference List: Key References and Resources for the Introduction of Oxytocin in the Uniject™ Device
This compilation contains key references and resources to aid program planners in the introduction of oxytocin in the Uniject™ prefilled injection device.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Global
- Healthy Mothers, Healthy Children
This fact sheet describes PATH’s work in maternal and child health.
- A Heat-Stable Hepatitis B Vaccine Formulation
This article, published in Human Vaccines (Human Vaccines 5:8, 1-7; August 2009), details a collaborative effort between PATH, Arecor, and the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy that has resulted in a new formulation for recombinant hepatitis B vaccine that demonstrates improved stability at elevated temperatures. The formulation exhibited 9-week stability at 55°C and was also shown to be stable at both 37°C and 45°C for at least six months. This new vaccine formulation has the potential to be stored at room temperature for part of its shelf life and will help ensure the potency of the vaccine in areas where the cold chain is insufficient.
- Helping Babies Grow up Healthy and Strong (Lesotho)
This two-page success story profiles a volunteer health worker who learned about the benefits of good breastfeeding practices during an Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project training workshop in rural Lesotho. The story highlights the project’s work to improve nutrition for infants and young children in developing countries by training community volunteers who counsel mothers on optimal nutrition practices.
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- Helping Young People Become Youth Advocates for Immunization
- Hepatitis B IC Strip Test
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Hepatitis B Vaccine Introduction: Lessons Learned in Advocacy, Communication and Training
- Highlights of 25 Years of Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming
This publication is a "look back" at highlights of some of PATH's work in youth sexual and reproductive health over the last 20+ years, and also a "look forward," outlining its vision for the future.
- A History of Vaccines
This fact sheet on the history of vaccines gives a brief overview of disease rates before and after the development of vaccines.
Publication date: April 2009
Region: Global
- HIV Dipstick
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the HIV dipstick project at PATH.
- HIV Eradication: Is it Feasible?
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. This paper explores the scientific feasibility of finding a cure for HIV/AIDS, and charts opportunities for areas where scientific progress is both possible and likely.
Part of series: aids2031 working papers
Author: Deeks S
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- HIV/AIDS Technologies: A Review of Progress to Date and Current Prospects
This paper was commissioned as an introductory landscape analysis for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. The paper builds on other recent landscape analysis work in the fields of HIV prevention technologies, therapeutics, and diagnostics and is intended to serve as a resource on the current status of research and development for biomedical and other technological interventions to prevent, treat, and diagnose HIV/AIDS.
Part of series: aids2031 working papers
Author: Alcorn K
Publication date: October 2008
Region: Global
- Hormonal Contraception and Breast Cancer: Convincing New Conclusions (Outlook, vol. 15, no. 1)
- Hormonal Contraception and HIV: New Findings, but Policies Remain Unchanged (Outlook, vol. 22, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook describes the latest research findings regarding whether there is a relationship between hormonal contraception and HIV acquisition, transmission, or progression. It also explores the effects of hormonal contraception on women living with HIV/AIDS and discusses how reproductive health programs can respond to emerging information.
- Hormonal Contraception, IUDS, and HIV Risk (Outlook, vol. 17, no. 1)
- HPV and Cervical Cancer: Unique Challenges and Opportunities for Disease Prevention
HPV and cervical cancer
- HPV DNA Testing: Technical and Programmatic Issues for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Low-resource Settings
- HPV Testing: Promise and Challenges
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- HPV Vaccine Adoption in Developing Countries: Cost and Financing Issues
Financing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and mobilizing resources to support new delivery mechanisms will constitute some of the most significant challenges to achieving widespread HPV vaccination in the developing world. Country decision-makers will need to weigh the value of HPV vaccines against other national health priorities, against other vaccines entering the market, and, for some countries, against expanding coverage of existing vaccines. With these cost and financing obstacles resolved, developing countries would be able to build robust programs to immunize adolescents and thus dramatically reduce the incidence of cervical cancer.
Publication date: December 2007
Region: Global
- HPVflash
HPVflash is an email news bulletin that disseminates useful cervical cancer prevention information, including updates on vaccines against the human papillomavirus, to interested persons worldwide. HPVflash emails are emailed only a few times a year.
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- Immunization and Child Health Materials Development Guide
- Immunizing Children Against Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib): A Training Module for Vaccinators.
This document can be adapted for specific national programs. In addition to key technical content--including sections on using monovalent, quadrivalent, or pentavalent Hib vaccine formulations--it features quizzes, role plays and creative ideas for trainers. One of the appendices is a handout for parents.
- Immunizing Children Against Hepatitis B: A Training Module for Doctors, Nurses, and Other Immunization Providers
- Immunizing Children Against Japanese Encephalitis Using Inactivated, Mouse-brain Derived Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine: A Training Module for Vaccinators
- Immunizing Children against Japanese Encephalitis Using SA 14-14-2 JE Vaccine
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Improving Global Health Through Technology Solutions
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Improving Infant Feeding to Protect Babies From HIV (Zambia)
This success story profiles Patricia Nawa, an HIV-positive mother from Zambia, who used good infant feeding practices to help protect her baby from HIV.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Global
- Improving Interactions with Clients: A Key to High-Quality Services (Outlook, vol. 17, no. 2)
- Improving Maternal and Child Health
This is a two-page fact sheet on PATH's maternal and child health activities.
- Improving Nutrition for Mothers and Children
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project.
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Global
- Improving Screening Coverage Rates of Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs: A Focus on Communities
This paper describes the community focus taken by ACCP projects from 1999 to 2004 in eight countries: El Salvador, India, South Africa, Thailand, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, and Bolivia. We include an overview of the various community involvement strategies that were used to increase screening coverage, and we present lessons learned about how to meet women
Part of series: Cervical Cancer Prevention: Issues in Depth
Author: Coffey P; Arossi S; Bradley J; Dzuba I; White SC; ACCP Community Involvement Affinity Group
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- In Women’s Hands: A Film on Women, HIV, and Hope
Filmed in several locations across the world, this short documentary is an tool for organizing and creating awareness around the increasing rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among women and the importance of advocacy for microbicides. The personal stories portrayed in In Women’s Hands speak to the need for microbicides and the importance for leadership on this issue.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Increased Access to Diagnostic Tests for HIV Case Management
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. In line with thinking about the future development of new tools for diagnosis of HIV infection, this paper presents an analysis of issues related to diagnostic tests for HIV case management and explores four possible scenarios in which these tests could be performed.
Part of series: aids2031 working papers
Author: Gerlach J, Boyle D, Domingo G, Weigl B, Free M
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- Increasing Access to Reproductive Health Services Through Pharmacists (Outlook, vol 21, no. 2)
This issue of Outlook looks at the role pharmacists and pharmacy staff play in providing health care services, particularly those related to reproductive health. The issue addresses a number of important topics related to this theme, including accessibility, pharmacists as primary health care providers, reproductive health needs, health care referrals, social marketing, training, building pharmacist capacity through innovative programs, pharmacists and youth, pharmacists and EC, and critical considerations.
- Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project Website
The Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project website offers helpful nutrition information and resources for global health professionals. It provides training tools, publications, and other resources on maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, infant feeding within the context of HIV, and infant feeding during and after illness. The website also features the latest news and highlights from the IYCN Project.
- Infertility in Developing Countries (Outlook, vol. 15, no. 3)
- Influenza Vaccine Strategies for Broad Global Access
Influenza viruses present one of the major infectious disease threats to the human population, with the recently emerging, highly pathogenic avian influenza strain, H5N1, causing particular concern. A virulent influenza pandemic has the potential to kill more than 100 million people worldwide. This paper analyzes the current supply of influenza vaccines, the predicted demand for influenza vaccines in case of a pandemic, and new vaccine technologies that could provide for the world’s demand in a pandemic situation.
- Injectable Contraceptives in Uniject
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on Uniject for use with injectable contraceptives.
- Innovation in Biochemical Cervical Cancer Screening
This fact sheet gives an update regarding the two START project biochemical tests being developed to advance cervical cancer screening.
- Innovations in Cervical Cancer Screening
This fact sheet summarizes the work being done by PATH to develop two new tests to detect infection with cancer-causing human papillomavirus. Designed by the private sector—in partnership with PATH—for use in low-resource settings, these molecular and biochemical screening tools are an innovative answer to the challenge of preventing cervical cancer in the developing world.
- Innovative Solutions Saving Mothers’ Lives
This fact sheet provides information about the use of the hormone oxytocin in the Uniject device to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. It summarizes the benefits of using this innovative solution and also provides a success story based on a pilot study conducted in Mali.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
- Instructions for Health Workers: Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch
This illustrated job aid provides a quick reference for providers using the nevirapine infant-dose pouch in programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT).
- Integrating Tuberculosis and HIV Services in Tanzania
This case profile highlights a project in Tanzania as an example of PATH's efforts to deliver critical services while strengthening health systems. Key issues related to the delivery of integrated TB–HIV services in low-resource settings are summarized along with PATH’s efforts to deliver innovative service models, address human resource constraints, and improve management of these diseases in the region.
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Integration of Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services
This fact sheet provides an overview of sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS service integration and PATH’s experience in this area.
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Intradermal Delivery of Vaccines: A Review of the Literature and the Potential for Development for Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The purpose of this report is (1) to summarize the clinical evidence supporting the intradermal route for vaccine administration and the devices being developed for this purpose; (2) to determine whether intradermal delivery broadly holds promise for vaccine applications for low- and middle-income countries in the future; and (3) to begin to prioritize vaccine targets and device strategies that best fit the public health needs in these countries and likely merit further investigation. The document is available as one large file or as four smaller files for easier downloading.
Publication date: August 2009
Region: Global
- Introducing HPV Vaccines in Developing Countries: Overcoming the Challenges
This fact sheet focuses on the challenges of introducing HPV vaccines into developing countries.
- Introducing Oxytocin in the Uniject™ Device: An Overview for Decision-Makers
This overview has been developed for program planners considering introduction and/or expansion of the use of oxytocin, and in particular oxytocin packaged in the Uniject™ device, to reduce the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage as a component of their maternal and child health programming. Administering oxytocin is just one component of active management of third stage labor.
Publication date: September 2008
Region: Global
- Introducing TT Uniject in Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination
This document provides materials to assist health workers and program managers in the introduction, training, and proper use of TT-Uniject.
- Introduction of Fortified Rice Using the Ultra Rice® Technology: Frequently Asked Technical Questions
This document provides important details on technical aspects of the Ultra Rice® technology.
Publication date: October 2008
Region: Global
- Involving Men in Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 14, no. 3)
- IYCN Update
The IYCN Update is a periodic email newsletter from USAID’s Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project offering updates on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition for global health professionals. Distributed four times per year, each issue includes research highlights, new resources, and IYCN Project news.
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- Key Facts About Rotavirus Disease and Vaccines
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Key Steps for Meeting Women's Needs
This fact sheet describes issues relating to women's cultural, emotional, and practical needs pertaining to cervical cancer prevention.
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Key Steps in Sharps Waste Disposal
This training aid was developed as part of Training Health Workers in the Management of Sharps Waste. The aid includes a graphical representation of the key steps involved in the safe management of health care waste: segregation, containment, handling and storage, transport, treatment or destruction, and disposal.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Global
- Kill or Cure? Cervical Cancer
This short film shows how simple screening tests and community mobilization are saving lives across India. And how Costa Rican scientists - and young female volunteers - are helping us understand the exciting potential of a new HPV vaccine.
- Kill or Cure? Meningitis
Filmed during the 2007 epidemic in Burkina Faso, the documentary offers a poignant and revealing account of the devastating impact meningitis epidemics have on individuals and communities. The film also takes viewers to Mali, where the Meningitis Vaccine Project (a collaboration between PATH and the World Health Organization) and the Serum Institute of India Limited are testing a new vaccine that offers hope for eliminating epidemics as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Kill or Cure? The Real Lady Killer
This 25-minute film in the BBC World’s "Kill or Cure?" series uncovers the challenges of preventing and treating cervical cancer in Africa and highlights exciting new opportunities for dramatically reducing the toll of disease. The BBC crew follows Sarah Nyombi—Ugandan member of parliament, trained midwife, and women's health advocate—as she explores the landscape of cervical cancer.
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- Lab-on-a-Card Assay for Enteric Pathogens
We describe the functional elements of a diagnostic instrument and disposable enteric card system under development that rapidly identifies and differentiates Shigella, E. coli, Campylobacter, and Salmonella in stool samples. These elements, currently realized as microfluidic subcircuits on individual cards, are: (1) pathogen capture and lysing, (2) nucleic acid capture, (3) on-chip rapid PCR, and (4) lateral flow detection of amplicons. Presented at the Solid State Sensor, Actuator and Microsystems Workshop, June 4, 2006; Hilton Head Island, SC.
- Landscape Analysis: Analysis of EVSM Indicators
The Effective Vaccine Stores Management (EVSM) assessment tool was created to help countries and agencies evaluate critical components of the country’s primary vaccine store. To date, 57 countries have completed the EVSM assessment. This report evaluates 42 EVSM assessment spreadsheets.
Publication date: June 2008
Region: Global
- Landscape Analysis: Cool Chain Technologies
Technologies related to the temperature control of vaccines during the distribution process are essential to the cool chain. This report provides a landscape analysis of these technologies and their appropriateness for use with vaccines in the developing world.
Publication date: June 2008
Region: Global
- Landscape Analysis: Trends in Vaccine Availability and Novel Vaccine Delivery Technologies: 2008–2025
This landscape analysis identifies trends in the availability of vaccines and novel vaccine delivery technologies that are and will be of relevance to low- and middle-income countries from present through 2025. The document is available as one large file or as three smaller sections for easier downloading.
Publication date: July 2008
Region: Global
- Leading an Effective Response to HIV/AIDS
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Lessening the Burden of Disease
This fact sheet describes PATH’s work in emerging and epidemic diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.
- Lifesaving Vaccines on the Horizon
This fact sheet provides a graphical display of the vaccine development pipeline.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- LSA-1 Malaria Vaccine Manufacture and Early Clinical Trials
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- Maintaining a Needle Remover
In this document you will find a set of guidelines on how to correctly maintain a needle remover for extended use.
- Making Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM) Work for TB Control: A Facilitator's Guide to an ACSM Action Planning Workshop
This is the facilitator’s guide for the Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM) action planning workshop. Its primary goal is to assist the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria recipient countries in developing ACSM strategic action plans to scale up, enhance, and integrate ACSM activities into ongoing tuberculosis control work.
Publication date: January 2009
Region: Global
- Making Cervical Cancer Vaccines Widely Available in Developing Countries: Cost and Financing Issues
Financing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and mobilizing resources to support new delivery mechanisms will constitute some of the most significant challenges to achieving widespread HPV vaccination in the developing world. This brief summarizes the main findings of the longer research publication, HPV Vaccine Adoption in Developing Countries: Cost and Financing Issues.
Publication date: December 2007
Region: Global
- Malaria and the Military
- Malaria Research & Development: An Assessment of Global Investment
This document presents the World Health Organization's analysis of policy-development processes for new interventions.
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative Website
Launched in 2002, this website provides information on the Malaria Vaccine Initiative at PATH.
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative: Accelerating the Development of Promising Malaria Vaccines
- Malaria Vaccine Market Consultation
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Malaria Vaccine Research and Development: The Case for Greater Resources
- Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap
Scientists have been working for decades to develop a preventive malaria vaccine. While they have successfully demonstrated that such a vaccine is possible, many challenges continue to impede progress on the road to an effective malaria vaccine. As a result, the Malaria Vaccine Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization (WHO), coordinated by the WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research, called for a collective effort to explore and address the challenges. This effort resulted in the Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap process.
Publication date: August 2006
Region: Global
- Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap: Accelerating the Development of a Malaria Vaccine
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Male Circumcision: Current Epidemiological and Field Evidence
This conference report provides information on program and policy implications for HIV prevention and reproductive health.
Author: USAID Office of HIV/AIDS, AIDSMark (PSI, PATH, MSH), JHPIEGO
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Managing Health Care Waste Disposal: Guidelines on How to Construct, Use, and Maintain a Waste Disposal Unit
This publication provides guidelines on how to construct, use, and maintain a waste disposal unit.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Managing Health Care Waste Disposal: Operator's Manual
In this document you will find an operator's manual on how to use the waste disposal unit.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Mapping the Standards of Care at Microbicide Clinical Trial Sites
In 2006, the Global Campaign for Microbicides embarked on an exercise to map the standards of care and prevention provided to participants in late-stage microbicide trials. The resulting report provides an independent assessment of the health care and prevention services provided to women in the trials (and to some extent, their partners, family, and surrounding community), explores the factors that inform care-related decisions at trial sites, and offers recommendations to strengthen the HIV prevention research field’s ability to respond to care-related challenges in the future.
- MDR/XDR-TB Assessment and Monitoring Tool
This tool will assist countries and partners in conducting assessments of national tuberculosis (TB) programs to identify strengths and gaps related to preventing, diagnosing, and treating multidrug-resistant TB. It provides the starting point for planning for new activities to address drug-resistant TB. The tool is available in English and Russian as a Microsoft Word file (for users who wish to modify it for their specific purposes) and as a smaller Adobe PDF file. Development of the tool was funded by USAID.
Publication date: February 2009
Region: Global
- Medical Waste Management for Primary Health Centers in Indonesia
In 2003 and 2004, PATH worked with the Indonesian Ministry of Health to build awareness and provide policy guidance to the country's decision-makers. This report describes the process and lessons learned implementing pilot waste-management systems in three districts of Yogyakarta province. The report was used to guide development of waste-management policy in Indonesia and could serve as a useful model for other countries.
Publication date: October 2005
Region: Global
- Meeting Family Planning Needs
This fact sheet describes PATH's work to expand access to family planning products and services in low-resource settings.
- Meeting the Global Need for Nutrients
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work to improve nutrition around the world. This work includes developing tools to detect micronutrient deficiencies, expanding the use of micronutrient-fortified rice, and improving nutrition for infants and young children. The document highlights project successes in Uganda, Lesotho, and Colombia.
- Meeting the Need: Strengthening Family Planning Programs
This report is designed as a general resource to help family planning program managers strengthen their programs and meet growing family planning needs. It offers a broad overview of key programmatic considerations, lists of practical specialized resources, and hands-on tools that are available online.
- Meeting the Needs of Women, Men, and Their Communities: PATH's Approach to Reproductive Health
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Meeting the Reproductive Health Needs of Refugees (Outlook, vol. 17, no. 4)
- Meningitis Vaccine Project Website
Launched in 2004, this website provides information on meningitis and the work of PATH and WHO's Meningitis Vaccine Project to eliminate epidemic meningitis as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Microbicide Delivery
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on microbicide delivery devices.
- Misoprostol Literature Review
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Misoprostol Use in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Outlook, vol. 21, no. 4)
This issue of Outlook provides evidence-based information on the emerging use of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynecology. It describes current research, regulatory issues, availability, and administration, as well as misoprostol's use during labor and delivery for labor induction and for prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. It also describes its use in inducing or managing abortion, including for treatment of incomplete abortion, preabortion cervical ripening, and pregnancy termination. Finally, it outlines safety issues and implications for research and practice.
- MVI Partnership with the Malaria Vaccine Development Branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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- Natural History of Cervical Cancer: Even Infrequent Screening of Older Women Saves Lives
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Needle Remover Technical Overview
This document provides technical overview of the needle remover project at PATH and includes information such as links to related materials available on the PATH website.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Neonatal Resuscitator
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet descibes the neonatal resuscitator project funded by USAID under the HealthTech program at PATH.
- New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies
The Caucus on New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies is a community of practice established under the auspices of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, for which PATH serves as Secretariat. Caucus members developed this series of peer-reviewed briefs on underused reproductive health technologies. Responsibility for the selection and contents of the briefs rests solely with the Caucus and does not imply endorsement of any single technology by the Coalition or its wider membership. For more information on the Caucus, please visit http://rhsupplies.org/index.php?id=894 or contact secretariat@rhsupplies.org.
Publication date: August 2009
Region: Global
- New Approaches to Early Abortion (Outlook, vol. 16, no. 2)
- News From PATH
Every other month, PATH sends an email update on our programmatic activities. News From PATH lets colleagues know what we're working on, where we'll be presenting our work, and what new publications and tools are available.
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- Opportunities and Challenges of Developing Thermostable Vaccines
This article, published in Expert Reviews (Expert Rev. Vaccines 8(5), 547-557; May 2009), reviews approaches being used to develop thermostable vaccine formulations that are resistant to damage caused by freezing or excessive heat and could reduce dependence on the cold chain. The article discusses the challenges associated with the implementation of these novel formulations as well as the potential benefits of protecting vaccines from damage caused by breaks in the cold chain.
- Optimal Settings for Needle Removers
This document reviews the site characteristics of both health facilities and injection settings in order to determine the optimal use of a needle-remover device.
- Optimize Strategy: 2009-2012
This document provides a brief overview of the Optimize project’s strategy for developing delivery systems that are as advanced and innovative as the vaccines they support. Optimize, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH, has been given a unique mandate to think far into the future: to put technological and scientific advances to work, helping define the ideal characteristics and specifications for health products; and to create a vaccine supply chain that is flexible and robust enough to handle an increasingly large and costly portfolio of vaccines.
Publication date: October 2009
Region: Global
- Optimizing Vaccine Supply Chains
This document describes the urgent need for vaccine supply chain reform, new ideas, and innovative technologies. It also demonstrates the increasing consequences of supply-chain failure in today's environment, as more vaccines are becoming available, new vaccines are costing more than traditional vaccines, and new vaccines are requiring more space than traditional vaccines.
Publication date: February 2009
Region: Global
- Oral Rehydration Therapy/Oral Rehydration Solution
This fact sheet aims to raise awareness about oral rehydration therapy to rehydrate people—particularly infants and children—who have lost fluids because of diarrhea. One in a set of introductory resources, it provides stakeholders and policymakers in the world’s poorest countries with crucial information on a proven intervention in the fight against diarrheal disease.
- Outlook and RHO Report on Evaluation Activities in 2003
This document reports on 2003 Outlook and RHO reader evaluations, which included surveys, focus group discussions, and key-informant interviews. The report discusses evaluation methods and results, compares results to a 1997 Outlook reader survey and a 1999 RHO user survey, and outlines recommendations and outcomes. Appendices include a copy of the surveys and responses, key-informant questionnaire, focus group discussion guide, and sample pages of Outlook's design, pre- and post-evaluation.
- Oxytocin in Uniject
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the oxytocin in Uniject project at PATH.
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- Packaging Solutions for Nevirapine
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's current project to improve packaging of nevirapine used to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
- Palliative Care for Women with Cervical Cancer: A Field Manual
This manual was developed for health care providers such as community nurses and medical doctors who care for women who are dying of advanced cervical cancer. It offers recommendations for providing supportive care for women with the disease and provides practical advice on managing physical signs and symptoms, using modern medications to relieve pain, promoting good nutrition, and addressing social, emotional, and spiritual issues.
Author: Herdman C; Levin K; Dzuba I; Castro W; Muhombe K; Sellors J
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Palliative Care: Supporting Women With Advanced Cancer
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Pap Smears: An Important But Imperfect Screening Method
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- The Pap Test: Evidence to Date
The ACCP has developed a set of presentation materials to help cervical cancer prevention advocates make presentations to policymakers, donors, clinicians, program managers, community health workers and others who may be interested or actively involved in cervical cancer prevention. The presentations are available on the ACCP web site in both PowerPoint and as PDF files.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- PATH and Tuberculosis Control
This four-page brochure describes PATH's work in tuberculosis, including our project portfolio, project locations, and key partners.
Publication date: November 2007
Region: Global
- PATH Children's Vaccine Program - The Big Picture
This publication provides an overview of the PATH Children's Vaccine Program's achievements worldwide, with a special focus on China, India, and Indonesia.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- The PATH Rotavirus Vaccine Program: Equal Protection Against a Childhood Threat
This fact sheet provides an update on the activities of the PATH Rotavirus Vaccine Program, which aims to dramatically reduce the typical 10- to 15-year timeline between introduction of new vaccines in wealthy countries and their availability in the developing world. Activities include measuring disease burden, determining vaccine efficacy and safety in developing countries, communicating the value of rotavirus vaccines, and generating information on the health economics of rotavirus vaccination.
- PATH Today (Fall 1997)
- PATH Today (Fall 1998)
- PATH Today (Fall 1999)
- PATH Today (Fall 2000)
- PATH Today (Fall 2001)
- PATH Today (Fall 2002)
- PATH Today (Fall 2003)
- PATH Today (Fall 2004)
- PATH Today (Fall 2005)
- PATH Today (Fall 2006)
- PATH Today (Fall 2007)
This edition of PATH Today features the article "Preventing malaria and saving lives" and includes updates on PATH's AfriComNet award for magnet theater, the PATH Journeys donor travel program, the 2007 Breakfast for Global Health, and Global Impact. The issue also includes a profile of PATH donor Erick Rabins.
- PATH Today (Fall 2008)
This issue of PATH Today features our Sure Start project, new study results on the Ultra Rice technology, and brief updates on PATH's Woman's Condom, the Washington Global Health Alliance, and more. The issue also includes a profile on PATH donor Jay Ingram.
- PATH Today (Spring 1998)
- PATH Today (Spring 1999)
- PATH Today (Spring 2000)
- PATH Today (Spring 2004)
- PATH Today (Spring 2005)
- PATH Today (Spring 2006)
This edition of PATH Today features the articles "A laboratory on a card," "Using microfluidic tests to identify infection," and "Common proteins for common prevention," which highlights the work of John Boslego and his team on pneumococcus. It also includes a letter from donor Shannon Scopa about her family's ordeal with rotavirus.
- PATH Today (Spring 2007)
This edition of PATH Today features the article "Magnet theater: setting the stage for transformation," updates on the pneumococcal vaccine, May 2007 Breakfast for Global Health, Charity Navigator rating, and the spring Bottom Line breakfast event.
- PATH Today (Spring 2008)
This edition of PATH Today highlights the first tour of PATH Journeys, our newly established donor travel program. Also featured are PATH's Sure Start program, a thank-you to the sponsors of our 2008 Breakfast for Global Health, and information on two endeavors to protect women from disease and violence: the Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer and the International Violence Against Women Act.
- PATH Today (Summer 2002)
- PATH Today (Winter 1997)
- PATH Today (Winter 1998)
- PATH Today (Winter 1999)
- PATH Today (Winter 2000)
- PATH Today (Winter 2001)
- PATH Today (Winter 2002)
- PATH Today (Winter 2003)
- PATH Today (Winter 2004)
The Winter 2004 issue of PATH Today features a film that PATH produced to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS among migrant communities in Cambodia and Thailand. Other highlights: "Adoption" strategy increases immunization in Senegal; Women's stories, women's lives: a publication demonstrating the challenges of preventing cervical cancer in developing countries; opportunities to engage in global health.
- PATH Today (Winter 2006)
This edition of PATH Today features the article "Focusing on pneumonia" and updates on the Cambodia milestone in immunization coverage, new IRA rollover options for donors, Global Impact, and a profile on PATH donor Brandon Schaefer.
- PATH Today (Winter 2007)
This edition of PATH Today features a main article about the neveripine pouch, "Protecting newborns against HIV," and includes updates on the Meningitis Vaccine Project's plans to introduce a vaccine in Burkina Faso in 2008, PATH's nomination as a Laureate for the Tech Museum Awards, and the organization's recognition as a top social entreprenuer in Fast Company magazine. The issue also includes details about the Gates Partnership Challenge and other opportunities for donors to engage and learn about PATH.
- PATH Today (Winter 2008)
This issue of PATH Today features a profile of PATH donor Diana Carey and her family, a report from PATH Journeys travelers to Vietnam, and brief updates on the 25th anniversary of Outlook, Forbes’ "most efficient charities" list, and more. The issue also highlights the year-end matching challenge.
- PATH Woman's Condom: Informational Updates
This document provides historical information on the PATH-designed Woman's Condom, which could help couples around the world reduce their risk of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- PATH Woman’s Condom Features and Specifications
This fact sheet summarizes the performance objectives, key features, and product specifications of the PATH Woman's Condom.
- PATH's Framework for Product Introduction
This paper focuses on PATH's product introduction activities. It also outlines the lessons learned and principles used to measure the impact of our efforts to reach underserved populations and improve global health.
- PATH's Guiding Principles for Achieving Programmatic Impact
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- PATH's Guiding Principles for Managing Conflict of Interest
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- PATH's Guiding Principles for Private-Sector Collaboration
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- PATH's Use of Flexible Funding: 2005–2006 Report to Donors
This document is the first annual report to donors on PATH's use of flexible funding (the "Catalyst Fund").
Publication date: October 2007
Region: Global
- PATH's Work in HIV and AIDS
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of PATH's work in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and advocacy.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- PATH's Work in Tuberculosis
Fact sheet describing some of PATH's global HIV/AIDS and TB.
- PATH: 25 Years of Innovation in Global Health
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- PATH’s Experience in Strengthening Health Systems
Strengthening health systems is a core component of PATH’s overall mission to improve the health of people around the world. We pursue deliberate and measurable outcomes related to service management, policy, financing, supply systems, human resources, and information and monitoring systems. This document describes PATH’s experience in strengthening health systems.
Publication date: August 2008
Region: Global
- Personal Protective Equipment and Segregation Supply Specifications for Health Care Waste Management
This document provides specifications for personal protective equipment for medical waste handlers and incinerator operators. It is intended to help with the selection and purchase of locally available equipment and can be adapted to local policies and product availability.
Publication date: June 2008
Region: Global
- Personal Protective Equipment for Waste Handlers and Incinerator Operators
This training aid was developed as part of Training Health Workers in the Management of Sharps Waste. The aid includes a graphical representation of the equipment needed to help protect waste handlers and incinerators during the collection, treatment, and final disposal of health care waste.
Publication date: July 2006
Region: Global
- A Pilot Introduction of the Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch in Kenya in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programs
This document provides a summary of the pilot introduction project in Kenya to provide nevirapine syrup to mothers prior to delivery to assist with the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Publication date: October 2006
Region: Global
- Pilot Use of Oxytocin in a Uniject™ Device for AMTSL in Mali
This report describes use of the Uniject™ device prefilled with 10 international units (IU) of oxytocin for actively managing the third stage of labor in selected health centers in Mali. Although this single-dose, autodisable injection device has previously been used for tetanus toxoid vaccination in Mali, the Ministry of Health lacked documentation of the safety and feasibility of using the device to deliver oxytocin for active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL).
Author: Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI)
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Planning and Implementing Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Programs: A Manual for Managers
This manual is designed to help health professionals develop a new cervical cancer prevention program or strengthen an existing program. The manual provides information on how to organize and implement a program, recognizing that various service delivery options are needed for different geographic and cultural settings and a range of resource levels. The manual offers practical information on how to develop a program; ensure availability and accessibility of services; build and maintain effective service delivery linkages; reach eligible women; train health professionals; monitor program performance; and improve linkages between prevetion, treatment, and palliative care services.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Planning Appropriate Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs (2nd ed)
- Planning for Safe Syringe Disposal
In this document you will find a guide that provides assistance with planning sharps waste disposal systems through the five important steps: review existing legislation and policy, collection of data in your district; review sharps collection options; review options for disposal in non-incineration areas; complete map by assigning disposal systems to non-incinerator health facilities; and create a district planning guide to calculate needs and plan implementation.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Point-of-care Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases: DxBox
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on the DxBox, a lab-on-a-card tool designed to help health care providers diagnose the cause of a patient's fever.
- Policy and Advocacy Efforts for HIV and AIDS Prevention: The AIDS Surveillance and Education Project in the Philippines
Author: Aquino C; D'Agnes L; Castro J; Borromeo M; Schmidt K; Gill K
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Practical Selection of Neonatal Resuscitators, Version 2: A Field Guide
PATH has evaluated a variety of reusable neonatal resuscitators, including both bag-and-mask and tube-and-mask designs. This guide is divided into two sections: the first identifies resuscitators that are priced at less than US$30 each, and the second identifies those that are priced above $30 each. It also describes the criteria used during the device evaluation, evaluation results for each device, and suggestions for choosing a resuscitator. The guide is available in two formats: one for booklet-style printing and one for onscreen viewing.
Publication date: November 2006
Region: Global
- Practical, Local Solutions for Safely Managing Contaminated Syringes and Other Medical Waste
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
Author: Wittet S; Bhattari M; Chaudray A
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Preventing Accidental Freezing in the Cold Chain: An Introduction to Cold Chain Freezing and Some Options for Reducing It (PowerPoint)
This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Preventing Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource Settings (Outlook, vol. 18, no. 1)
- Preventing Cervical Cancer Worldwide
This report highlights the major findings, lessons, and recommendations from the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Preventing Cervical Cancer: Unprecedented Opportunities for Improving Women's Health (Outlook, vol. 23, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook provides the latest evidence-based information about cervical cancer prevention. It summarizes key issues related to transmission of human papillomavirus (HPV), new HPV vaccines, and strategies for introducing the vaccine in low-resource countries. This issue also identifies new methods for early detection and treatment of cervical cancer.
- Preventing HIV/AIDS in Low-Resource Settings (Outlook, vol. 19, no. 1)
- Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage Website
Launched in 2005, the Postpartum Hemorrhage Prevention (POPPHI) website describes the work of the POPPHI Project, a USAID-funded project with the goal of expanding active management of the third stage of labor as a means to reduce postpartum hemorrhage, the single most important cause of maternal deaths worldwide. In addition to information about the project itself, the website offers a collection of information and resources related to postpartum hemorrhage and how to save women's lives through use of active management of the third stage of labor.
- Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage: Managing the Third Stage of Labor (Outlook, vol. 19, no. 3)
- Preventing Prevention Trial Failures: A Case Study and Lessons for Future Trials from the 2004 Tenofovir Trail in Cambodia
Between August 2004 and February 2005, the HIV prevention world was rocked by the suspension and cancellation of PrEP effectiveness trials in Cambodia and Cameroon. Acknowledging that no single version of the events constitutes the “real story,” the case studies are built from extensive interviews with researchers, policymakers, other government officials, donors, nongovernmental organization staff, and advocates to reconstruct often incompatible accounts of what eventually led to government intervention that halted the research. The case studies capture the political context and backdrop against which the controversies arose, the underlying and unaddressed conflicts that led to the costly collapse of two trials, and the lessons they provide for current and future research.
- Preventing Vaccine Freezing in the Cold Chain
This zipped set of materials includes background information on the freezing problem (two literature reviews and a PowerPoint presentation), posters and stickers ready for use in the vaccine store and clinic, and a sample protocol for a vaccine freeze study and the results of a study in Indonesia.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Fact Sheets
The USAID-funded Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI) has developed numerous fact sheets on postpartum hemorrhage to educate individuals on its severity and how it can be avoided through active management of the third stage of labor.
Author: Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI)
Publication date: 2008
Region: Global
- Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Job Aids
The USAID-funded Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative has six developed job aids to help educate individuals about the harmful effects of postpartum hemorrhage and the proper use of active management of the third stage of labor. Prevention and Initial Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage is available as one large file and two smaller files for easier downloading.
Author: Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI)
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Previous annual reports
This listing offers copies of PATH's annual reports from 2001 to 2008.
Publication date: 2009
Region: Global
- Printing Template for the Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch Label
These labels for the nevirapine infant-dose pouch give instructions for handling and administering the medication; they include a place for health workers to record the expiration date. These labels are available in the following formats: English-language for A4-sized label stock, English-language for 8 ? x 11-inch label stock, and Kiswahili-language for A4-sized label stock.
- Procurement Capacity Toolkit: Tools and Resources for Procurement of Reproductive Health Supplies
As more developing countries take on responsibility for purchasing health commodities, requisite capabilities -- such as decision-making, planning, and technical skills -- often require strengthening. To address this need, PATH developed the comprehensive Procurement Capacity Toolkit for those responsible for and involved in the supply of reproductive health products. A final version of the toolkit will be available in August 2009. The current toolkit is available as one large file or, for faster downloading, 16 smaller files.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
- Product Introduction Case Profile: Vaccine Vial Monitors
This case profile of the vaccine vial monitor (VVM) is the first in a series of profiles intended to illustrate the product introduction process.
- Program Capacity Assessment Tool: Integrating Cervical Cancer Prevention into Reproductive Health Services
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Promoting Gender Equity: PATH's Gender, Violence and Rights Strategic Program
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Proper Handling and Disposal of Auto-Disable Syringes and Safety Boxes: A Training Module for Clinic Managers and Immunization Providers
- Protecting the Promise of Youth: PATH's Adolescent Health Strategic Program
This brochure describes the approach and activities of PATH's adolescent health program.
- Protecting Young Children From Diarrheal Disease
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's multifaceted approach to protecting children from diarrheal disease.
- Protocol for Evaluating Freezing in the Vaccine Cold Chain
This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
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- Quantifying Infectious Waste Produced by HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis Programs and the Needs for Injection Safety Equipment
This document is intended to start discussions around quantifying the need for safe injection equipment and the amount of infectious sharps waste produced by testing and treatment programs for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The analysis was developed to support advocacy efforts to integrate injection safety as an essential element of all health care programs.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Questions Frequently Asked by Women
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
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- The Radically Simple Uniject Device
This four-page brochure tells the story of the Uniject device--how it grew from a concept to an easy-to-use, all-in-one injection device that will be used to vaccinate every newborn in Indonesia against hepatitis B and to help eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus globally. The publication covers the development, evaluation, licensing, production, and design and function of Uniject. Photographs and a timeline of Uniject's history included.
- Rapid Diagnostics Website
Launched in 2002, this PATH website explores rapid diagnostic tests for infectiuos diseases, and provides information useful to international public health officials.
- Rapid Strip Test for Chlamydia
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop a rapid, easy-to-read, low-cost test for chlamydia.
- Rapid Strip Test for Gonorrhea
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop a rapid, easy-to-use, low-cost test for gonorrhea.
- Rapid Strip Test for Malaria
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop a rapid, easy-to-read, low-cost test for malaria.
- Rapid Tests for Cervical Cancer
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop rapid tests for cervical cancer.
- RBP-EIA: Collecting, Processing, and Handling Venous, Capillary, and Blood Spot Samples (Job Aid)
This document serves as a guide to phlebotomists and a training aid in the proper methods of obtaining blood samples for analysis by the retinol-binding protein enzyme immunoassay (RBP-EIA) used in testing for vitamin A deficiency.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- RBP-EIA: A New Approach to Assessing Vitamin A Deficiency
This guide introduces the retinol binding protein enzyme immunoassay (RBP-EIA) to potential advocates and users, and provides information about its prospective role in public health.
- RBP-EIA: Validation and Establishment of a Rapid, Field-Based Tool for the Assessment of Vitamin A Deficiency: A Summary of Available Evidence
This document summarizes available evidence for the validation and establishment of a rapid, field-based tool for the assessment of vitamin A deficiency using the retinol-binding protein immunoassay (RBP-EIA) test.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Re-examining the Role of Cervical Barrier Devices (Outlook, vol. 20, no. 2)
- Reading Time-Temperature Indicators With the Uniject® Device
This job aid illustrates how to read time-temperature indicators with the Uniject device.
Publication date: October 2009
Region: Global
- Reading Time-Temperature Indicators With the Uniject® Device: Worksheet
This worksheet can be used during trainings to help health workers learn how to read time-temperature indicators on the Uniject® device.
Publication date: October 2009
Region: Global
- Realizing the Full Potential of Childhood Immunization: How Health Professionals Can Make a Difference
This eight-page paper on local advocacy was written for doctors, nurses, and health educators. It provides practical suggestions for grassroots initiatives supporting immunization and incorporates the insights of co-author Dr. Robert Aston, an immunization advocate from the U.K.
- Reducing Unmet Need for Family Planning: Evidence-Based Strategies and Approaches (Outlook, vol. 25, no. 1)
The 25th anniversary issue of Outlook, made possible by support from UNFPA, presents innovative, evidence-based strategies and approaches for addressing unmet need for family planning in developing countries. The issue also reviews the link between family planning and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including improving maternal and child health, promoting gender equality, and combating HIV/AIDS. Addressing unmet need can help tackle some of the most intractable health and development challenges facing the world today.
- Reproductive Health and Rights: Reaching the Hardly Reached
This important book brings together a public health and human rights focus on the reproductive health and rights of women and men who are the most disadvantaged and underserved: the "hardly reached." Each article fills a significant gap in our understanding of the health needs of those least served by existing reproductive health programs, including survivors of gender-based violence, refugees, sexual minorities, indigenous women, adolescents and young girls and women who have been trafficked.
- Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Summary
This two-page summary describes the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), which provides global leadership in making essential reproductive health products available in developing and transitional countries.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Website
The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition is a global partnership of public, private, and nongovernmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure their better reproductive health.
- Reproductive Health, Gender and Human Rights: A Dialogue
This document is available for downloading in one large file or by individual chapters. (There are 12 chapters plus appendices.)
- Reproductive Health: Women in Their Middle Years and Beyond (Outlook, vol. 14, no. 4)
- Research Rashomon: Lessons from the Cameroon Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Trial Site
From August 2004 to February 2005, the HIV prevention world was rocked by the suspension and cancellation of PrEP effectiveness trials in Cambodia and Cameroon. Acknowledging that no single version of the events constitutes the “real story,” the case studies in this document are built from extensive interviews with many stakeholders to reconstruct accounts of what eventually led to government intervention that halted the research. The case studies capture the political context and backdrop, the underlying and unaddressed conflicts that led to the costly collapse of two trials, and the lessons they provide for current and future research.
- Researching New Prevention Approaches for Cervical Cancer: Methodological Guidelines
The ACCP has developed a set of presentation materials to help cervical cancer prevention advocates make presentations to policymakers, donors, clinicians, program managers, community health workers and others who may be interested or actively involved in cervical cancer prevention. The presentations are available on the ACCP web site in both PowerPoint and as PDF files.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Researching Violence Against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and Activists
Produced by PATH and the World Health Organization, this guide draws on the experience of researchers from more than 40 countries and presents methods for performing surveys and qualitative research on gender-based violence in low-resource settings. It covers all aspects of the research process, from study design to training field workers. It also describes ways to use findings to influence decision-makers. Most important, it presents clear guidelines for protecting the safety of women participating in the research. The guide is available as one large file or as 16 smaller files for easier downloading.
- Resources for Diarrheal Disease Control
This resource-rich site provides tools that advocates and practitioners alike can use in spreading the word about the deadly toll of diarrheal disease and the solutions to stop it, including new technologies such as zinc treatment and rotavirus vaccines, as well as traditional interventions such as oral rehydration therapy, clean water, and breastfeeding.
- Resources for Emergency Contraceptive Pill Programming: A Toolkit
Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) are special doses of birth control pills that can be used after unprotected intercourse to prevent pregnancy. Although ECPs offer a safe and effective contraceptive option, with some notable exceptions the method has yet to be widely integrated into developing-country family planning programs. The purpose of this toolkit is to facilitate the integration of ECPs into developing-country family planning and reproductive health programs. It includes resources for ECP advocacy, assessment, service provision, and evaluation. The planning and implementation tools represent best practices and experience that will help programs move through the steps required to make ECP services routinely available through health service delivery systems. The intent of the toolkit is to share widely an array of materials developed by PATH and by other organizations as they worked in a variety of settings to incorporate ECPs into family planning services. It is hoped that by bringing together these resources in a format that facilitates their use, the toolkit can reduce duplication of efforts, redundancy, and unnecessary expense.
Publication date: June 2004
Region: Global
- Rethinking the Ethical Roadmap for Clinical Testing of Microbicides: Report on an International Consultation
On October 23–24, 2003, the Global Campaign for Microbicides brought together 64 people from 12 countries to rethink the issues and ethical dilemmas facing the field of microbicide development. The consultation comprised a broad range of stakeholders, including advocates, ethicists, clinical investigators, community members, drug regulatory authorities, and past participants in microbicide clinical trials. The report is available as one large file and as multiple smaller files for easier downloading.
Publication date: March 2005
Region: Global
- Retinol Binding Protein Enzyme Immunoassay (RBP-EIA)
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop a rapid, low-cost test to detect vitamin A deficiency.
- RHO Cervical Cancer Website
RHO Cervical Cancer is an online resource for health program managers and decision-makers seeking to prevent cervical cancer in low-resource settings. The site contains information about human papillomavirus and cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening and treatment, and the role of vaccination in cervical cancer prevention.
- A Rights-Based Approach to Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 20, no. 4)
Human rights and reproductive health advocates increasingly are working together to advance women's and men's well-being. This issue of Outlook discusses fundamental human rights principles and major developments; benefits of a rights-based approach to reproductive health; obligations and responsibilities at the international, national, health care system, and community levels; and how programs can implement a rights-based approach to reproductive health care.
- Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer: Evidence to Date
Part of the ACCP's series of fact sheets, this document reviews available evidene on risk factors for cervical cancer.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- The Road to Safe and Effective Vaccines
This fact sheet highlights the development of new vaccines through clinical trials and their role in providing safe and effective vaccines.
Publication date: March 2008
Region: Global
- Rotavirus Questions and Answers
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Rotavirus Update and RotaFlash
Rotavirus Update is distributed every other month to our colleagues in the global health community. It provides the latest news on the development of vaccines against rotavirus, a diarrheal disease that afflicts children worldwide and can lead to severe, sometimes fatal, dehydration. This newsletter reports on progress made by PATH and partners toward bringing a rotavirus vaccine to children in the world’s poorest countries. RotaFlash serves as a supplement between issues of the Rotavirus Update newsletter, providing breaking news on rotavirus disease and vaccines. When you subscribe to Rotavirus Update, you will also receive occasional emails to keep you up to date on the field's latest developments.
- Rotavirus Vaccine Program (RVP) Brochure
This brochure describes the global burden of disease from rotavirus and the Rotavirus Vaccine Program's work in accelerating the availability of a rotavirus vaccine.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Rotavirus Vaccine Program Website
Launched in 2004, this website provides news and resources from PATH’s Rotavirus Vaccine Program, whose mission is to reduce child morbidity and mortality from diarrheal disease by accelerating the availability of rotavirus vaccines appropriate for use in developing countries.
- Rotavirus Vaccines
This fact sheet aims to raise awareness about two new vaccines against rotavirus, a major cause of diarrheal disease. One in a set of introductory resources, it provides stakeholders and policymakers in the world’s poorest countries with crucial information on new tools to fight diarrheal disease.
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- Safe Injection Manual
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the use of the safe injection manual produced at PATH.
- Safe Motherhood: Successes and Challenges (Outlook, vol. 16, special issue)
- Safe Water Project
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work in safe water, specifically on household drinking water and storage products.
- Safe Water Situation in Four Countries: 2007 Findings in Brief
This is part of a series of working draft documents that discuss key questions and preliminary findings of PATH’s Safe Water Project. These reports will be used to inform follow-on research, identify potential partners, and contribute to the development of pilot activities. This particular document reports on “snapshot” research that PATH commissioned in 2007 on the safe water situation in Cambodia, Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam.
- Sample International Reproductive Health Curricula
Publication date: 1999
Region: Global
- Segregation of Medical Waste
This training aid was developed as part of Training Health Workers in the Management of Sharps Waste. The aid includes a graphical representation of the segregation of medical waste into three categories: non-infectious, infectious, and sharps. Over the last few years, a number of countries have adapted the basic concepts and developed country-specific versions of this aid for training and for display in health facilities. The document available here is a link to an example adapted for Kenya.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Global
- SILCS Diaphragm
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the SILCS diaphragm project at PATH.
- SILCS Diaphragm: Design History
This document provides an historical profile on the design of PATH's SILCS diaphragm, including clinical evaluations, user acceptability studies, and product features, specifications, and benefits.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Simple and Affordable Testing for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on developing a simple, affordable test for multidrug resistant tuberculosis.
- Simple and Rapid Method for Detection of Enteric Pathogens in Stool Samples for Low-Resource Settings
Demonstration of the PATH enteric flow-through assay as a rapid and cost effective method for detecting pathogenic bacteria in stool samples in low-resource settings. Presented at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Oak Ridge Annual Conference, April 17, 2006; San Jose, CA.
- Small-Scale Autoclaves to Manage Medical Waste: A Buyer’s Guide to Selecting Autoclaves Manufactured in India
This guide provides technical information on small-scale affordable autoclaves manufactured in India that can be used for medical waste treatment. It includes issues to consider when purchasing an autoclave, technical specifications of some devices, and a list of Indian manufacturers of autoclaves. The guide is intended to be used to aid in decision-making for purchase of autoclaves for medical waste treatment. It is available in single-page format as well as booklet style.
Publication date: September 2008
Region: Global
- Small-Scale Incinerator Construction: Recommendations from the Rwanda Experience
This report documents a partnership in Rwanda to support infrastructure and systems development to ensure the safe handling, treatment, and final disposal of infectious medical waste.
Publication date: 2007
Region: Global
- SoloShot
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the SoloShot project at PATH.
- Solutions That Save Lives: Health Technologies Give Mothers and Children the Chance for a Healthy Future
This fact sheet discusses the development and implementation of technologies to improve the health of women and their children in poor and remote areas around the world. It provides examples of PATH’s work in this area.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Global
- Sourcing Guide: The Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch for Use in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS Programs. Version 1
This guide provides programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) with the information they need to independently procure nevirapine infant-dose pouches for use in their PMTCT services. (PATH is not a manufacturer or supplier of the pouch.)
- Sparking Dialogue: Initiating Community Conversations on Safe Abortion
This guide maps out the steps in building a dialogue-based BCC strategy and the importance of stakeholder involvement during the strategy design process. The purpose of this guide is to give policymakers and program implementors an idea of how communication strategies can be developed in order to increase access to safe abortion.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Spurring Innovation for the Development of HIV/AIDS Technologies
This paper was commissioned for the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group as part of a series of working papers under the aids2031 initiative. This paper discusses mechanisms that promote innovation in early stage discovery science for HIV and, in particular, those that target existing gaps in research.
Part of series: aids2031 working papers
Author: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
- Status Report on Human Papillomavirus Vaccines
Status report on HPV vaccines
- Status Report on Uniject Prefilled Injection Device
- STD Management for HIV and AIDS Prevention: The AIDS Surveillance and Education Project in the Philippines
Author: Aquino C; D'Agnes L; Castro J; Borromeo M; Schmidt K; Gill K
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Stop Freezing Vaccine!
This series describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Strengthening Health Systems Through Procurement
This two-page fact sheet details the procurement systems strengthening work that PATH has done over two decades in over 30 countries.
Publication date: June 2008
Region: Global
- Strengthening Understanding of Femicide: Using Research to Galvanize Action and Accountability
This publication provides an overview of a conference on femicide convened jointly by PATH, the Inter-American Alliance for the Prevention of Gender-based Violence, the Medical Research Council of South Africa, and the World Health Organization in Washington, DC, April 14–16, 2008. The conference brought together activists, researchers, and forensic professionals from 13 countries, with the aim of identifying common ground for strengthening research and galvanizing global action to prevent femicide and end the impunity so often granted to perpetrators.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
- Summary of Proceeedings: Consultative Forum on Cervical Cancer Prevention in Low-resource Settings
- Summary of Stability Data for Commonly Used Vaccines and Novel Vaccine Formulations
This table provides the latest stability data for commonly used vaccines and novel vaccine formulations. Data are sorted by vaccine. Current research into vaccine stabilization is also described and sorted by technology, formulation, data, and group.
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
- Summary Report: Evaluation of Retractable Syringes in a Measles-Rubella Immunization Campaign in Peru
In 2006, UNICEF, the Peruvian Ministry of Health, and PATH performed an evaluation in Peru to assess perceptions of acceptability and safety of automatic retractable syringes in an immunization setting and their affect on waste disposal. The evaluation showed that retractable syringes were seen as a reliable, easy-to-use, preferred alternative to standard disposables in the campaign setting. The evaluation also found that retractable syringes have the potential to improve the safe management of sharps waste.
Publication date: October 2008
Region: Global
- Supporting National TB Programs to Expand DOTS
Brochure describing PATH's national TB programs to expand DOTS. Created for a global meeting on TB in Paris, Oct/Nov. 2004.
- Supportive Supervision to Sustain Health Worker Capacity in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatera
This document summarizes PATH’s work in Indonesia to sustain best practices among health workers in project provinces through a supportive supervision program.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
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- Talking Points: Health Care Waste Management: A PEPFAR Priority
PATH and John Snow, Inc., developed these talking points on health care waste management to support advocacy efforts to raise awareness about why health care waste management is important and how programs can improve current practices.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Technologies for Immunization Safety
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on safe injections and waste management.
- Technology Breakthroughs to Improve Global Health
This fact sheet describes PATH's work in developing and introducing health technologies.
- Technology Solutions by the Numbers
This fact sheet provides an overview of the health products PATH has developed, particularly those that are being distributed globally. The sheet also summarizes the technologies that PATH has investigated, developed (or is developing), and transferred to commercial partners.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Ten Steps to Developing a Strategic Advocacy Agenda
This document outlines ten steps that programs may find helpful as they determine their advocacy goals and activities.
- Training Health Workers in the Management of Sharps Waste
This training manual is available for downloading in four sectioons: first, the guide for facilitation; second, the guide for training injection providers; third, the guide for training waste handlers; and fourth, resources.
- Training Manual: Training Providers on Packaging Nevirapine Oral Suspension Using the Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch
This manual assists programs in training staff for the introduction of the nevirapine infant-dose pouch into programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). It is intended for adaptation based on individual program needs.
- Training Vaccinators in a Time of Change
This article, from the October 2001 issue of Immunization Focus, describes one nongovernmental organization's experience of training with partners in countries. The article also includes examples of training initiatives developed by PATH's Children's Vaccine Program.
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Treating Precancerous Cervical Lesions
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Treatment Alternatives for Medical Waste Disposal
This document describes technology options for treating infectious medical waste, including incineration, chemical treatment, autoclaving, microwaving, and shredding/compacting. Performance issues, environmental impact, and perspectives from several developing countries are described.
Publication date: October 2005
Region: Global
- Tuberculosis: A Global Health Emergency (Outlook, vol. 17, no. 3)
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- Ultra Rice
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the Ultra Rice project at PATH.
- Ultra Rice Research Summary Table
Ultra Rice has been intensively studied to ensure it is efficacious, shelf stable, and acceptable to consumers. This table outlines the 28 studies conducted to date that form the growing evidence base for Ultra Rice.
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Global
- Ultra Rice Technology – Expanding Markets for Fortified Rice: An Invisible Bounty as Food for Life
This overview of PATH’s Ultra Rice project summarizes Ultra Rice as a cost-effective and culturally appropriate food-fortification technology specially designed to meet the needs of low-resource, rice-consuming populations.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
- Ultra Rice: Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ provides greater detail on a number of issues related to the Ultra Rice technology, including health issues, manufacturing processes, and ingredient and micronutrient composition of Ultra Rice grains. It also provides some insight into consumer questions and PATH's advocacy and commercialization activities.
- Ultra Rice® Technology: Value Proposition
The Ultra Rice technology offers an efficacious, affordable, and sustainable solution within the growing portfolio of interventions to address micronutrient deficiencies. This document highlights the key elements of the value proposition for this innovative health technology developed by PATH.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Using a Needle Remover
This document provides the user with guidelines on how to use a Balcan type needle remover safely.
- Using a Protected Sharps Barrel
This document provides a set of guidelines for correctly using a protected sharps barrel.
- Using a Protected Sharps Pit
This document provides a list of steps to follow for correctly using a protected sharps pit.
- Using Oxytocin in the Uniject™ Device (10 IU in 1 ml)
This job aid provides written and pictoral instruction for health workers for the administration of oxytocin in the Uniject™ device.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Using Uniject to Increase the Safety and Effectiveness of Hepatitis B Immunization
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
Author: Nelson C; Widjaya A; Wittet S
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
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- Vaccine Resource Library
PATH’s Vaccine Resource Library (VRL) seeks to gather the world’s best immunization resources in a single, easy-to-use website. The VRL offers a wide variety of high-quality, scientifically accurate documents and links on specific diseases and topics in immunization. It is geared for health professionals in the developing and industrialized worlds, as well as for journalists, policymakers, community leaders, parents, and others interested in vaccine-related resources. The resources found on the VRL are collected from a variety of sources, including news media, scientific journals, and leaders in public health.
- Vaccine Stabilization
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on vaccine stabilization.
- Vaccine Vial Monitors (VVMs)
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on vaccine vial monitors.
- Vaccines for the Future
This e-newsletter provides a periodic update on PATH’s efforts to develop new, appropriate, and affordable vaccines against two leading causes of death in developing-world populations: pneumonia and diarrhea. It includes updates on our progress, partnerships, and specific projects related to vaccines against pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, Shigella, enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), and influenza.
- Vaccines in Uniject
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on the Uniject device for use with vaccines.
- Violence Against Women: Effects on Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 20, no. 1)
- Violence Against Women: The Health Sector Responds
Violence Against Women: The Health Sector Responds provides a strategy for addressing this complex problem and concrete approaches for carrying it out. It was developed for those on the front lines and for decision-makers who are developing policies and resources. The book should motivate health providers and leaders to more directly confront the issue of gender-related violence and ensure support to affected women. The document is available as one large file or, for faster downloading, four smaller files.
Author: Velzeboer M, Ellsberg M, Clavel Arcas C, García-Moreno C
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA): Evidence to Date
The ACCP has developed a set of presentation materials to help cervical cancer prevention advocates make presentations to policymakers, donors, clinicians, program managers, community health workers and others who may be interested or actively involved in cervical cancer prevention. The presentations are available on the ACCP web site in both PowerPoint and as PDF files.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Visual inspection with Lugol
The ACCP has developed a set of presentation materials to help cervical cancer prevention advocates make presentations to policymakers, donors, clinicians, program managers, community health workers and others who may be interested or actively involved in cervical cancer prevention. The presentations are available on the ACCP web site in both PowerPoint and as PDF files.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Visual Screening Approaches: Promising Alternative Screening Strategies
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
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- WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women
Author: Garcia-Moreno C; Jansen HA; Ellsberg M; Heise L; Watts C
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Woman's Condom
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the Woman's Condom project at PATH.
- Women's Frequently Asked Questions About Cervical Cancer Screening: Helping Health Care Providers Anticipate and Answer Common Questions
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Experiences with Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment
Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Experiences with Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment is a collection of stories based on interviews with women who participated in the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP) screening and (when applicable) treatment programs. These women's stories illustrate the unnecessary suffering cervical cancer can cause women and their families and how prevention programs can save women's lives.
- Workshop on the WHO Prequalification Programme for Male Latex Condoms
These workshop materials were designed for manufacturers of male latex condoms to introduce and solicit input on the new WHO Prequalification Programme for Male Latex Condoms. The objective is to increase the successful participation of manufacturers, thereby expanding the supplier base and expediting progress toward reproductive health supply security in low- and middle-income countries. If you intend to adapt these materials, it is recommended that experienced facilitators manage each session. For more information, contact info@path.org.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
- Workshop on Using the WHO Prequalification Programme in Procurement Practices
These workshop materials were developed to improve the knowledge and skills of procurement implementers to enable them to effectively use the WHO Prequalification Programme for Essential Reproductive Health Medicines. The materials include educational and skills-building components to convey the benefits of prequalification within the procurement context and to effectively incorporate prequalification into bidding documents and bidder assessments. If you intend to adapt these materials, it is recommended that experienced facilitators manage each session. For more information, contact info@path.org.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
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- Youth-Friendly Pharmacy Program Implementation Kit: Guidelines and Tools for Implementing a Youth-friendly Reproductive Health Pharmacy Program
The Youth-Friendly Pharmacy Program Implementation Kit is intended to guide the development of a sustainable, pharmacy-based initiative. Organizations can adapt the model and the materials as needed, to suit a variety of environments.
Author: Beitz J; Srimuangboon H; Lion-Coleman A; Transgrud R; Hutchings J; Weldin M
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
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- Zinc Treatment for Diarrhea
This fact sheet aims to raise awareness about zinc, a new treatment for diarrhea. One in a set of introductory resources, it provides stakeholders and policymakers in the world’s poorest countries with crucial information on a new tool to fight diarrheal disease.