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Publications by language: French
Total publications in this language: 102.
- 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
- About PATH
This short flyer provides an overview of PATH's mission, global presence, areas of focus, partners, funding, and recent awards. It is available in English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Publication date: November 2012
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
- 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
- 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.
Publication date: 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: AIM e-Learning modules
- Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Meningitis
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 on meningococcal meningitis from basic disease characteristics through immunization session planning.
Author: Berlier M, LaForce FM, Mort M
Publication date: 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: AIM e-Learning modules
- Albania Pilots an Immunization Information System
The Albanian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with project Optimize, developed a registry-based immunization information system. This fact sheet illustrates how the data the new system produces has been used to improve the management of the country's vaccination program, how it is changing the way people collaborate, how it ensures timely and equal access to immunization for all children, and how it reduces the administrative burden on staff.
Publication date: November 2012
Region: Global
- Autodisposable Syringes and Sharps Disposal Containers with DMPA
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Bringing Online Immunization Registries to Low-Resource Countries
Today, most health workers at the service‐delivery level in developing countries use paper‐based systems to track the individuals who have been vaccinated and the vaccines and other resources used during the process. Project Optimize, a World Health Organization and PATH collaboration, is working with the Albanian Institute of Public Health to develop and implement an immunization information system that will provide the type of high-quality, granular data that policymakers need.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- Building Next-Generation Vaccine Supply Systems: Supply Chain Modeling and Optimization
This fact sheet describes how project Optimize and our partners, Agence de Médecine Préventive, United Nations Children’s Fund, and the Vaccine Modeling Initiative at University of Pittsburgh, are working with countries to model the impact of changes to vaccine logistics and supply systems on vaccine availability, using a powerful new modeling tool called HERMES.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
- Business Investing in Malaria Control: Economic Returns and a Healthy Workforce for Africa
This report in the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series examines how private-sector investment in malaria control has improved cost-effectiveness at companies operating in malaria-endemic regions in Africa.
Author: Mouzin E, Sedlmayr R, Miller J, et al
Publication date: May 2011
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- The Case for Childhood Immunization
Author: Kane M; Lasher H
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
- Childhood Immunization: What You Need to Know - A Handbook for Health Workers and Parents
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- 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.
Author: Weil B
Publication date: December 2004
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Combating HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, PATH is working with local groups from the ground up to link people with integrated HIV prevention, care, and support services through the ProVIC project. The five-year project, funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the US Agency for International Development, has adapted the Champion Community approach to engage individuals, families, and entire communities, especially high-risk groups, in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Publication date: June 2012
Region: Africa
- Common Requirements for Logistics Management Information Systems
This document focuses on a method for producing descriptions, models, and figures that accurately represent the views and needs of global health professionals. The document can be used by global health practitioners to inform software development related to health systems.
Publication date: September 2010
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.
Author: ACCP
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
- Cool Innovations for Vaccine Transportation and Storage
Keeping heat-sensitive vaccines and other drugs at the right temperature is crucial yet often difficult in areas with limited or no electrical power. In response to this challenge, a group of public- and private-sector partners is working with project Optimize to evaluate a range of transportation and storage containers for heat-sensitive drugs and vaccines that operate in environments with or without access to reliable power.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- A Decade of Partnership and Results
Part of the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series, this report demonstrates the dramatic successes achieved by the malaria community over the past ten years. As a result of greater commitment and increased resources being made available to national malaria control programs, interventions have reached vulnerable populations and thousands of lives have been saved. The report details the evolution and effectiveness of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership over the years, demonstrating how a strong, well-organized community can help deliver broad health benefits while relieving overburdened health systems.
Author: White Johansson EW, Newby H, Carvajal L, et al
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- Delivering Vaccines: A Cost Comparison of In-Country Vaccine Transport Container Options
Project Optimize, a collaboration between PATH and the World Health Organization, undertook a cost-comparison case study of five container options for vaccine transport from the national to the regional level in Senegal. This report may be used as a starting point for other country vaccine programs weighing transport options in the face of increasing vaccine volume.
Author: Lorenson K, Mvundura M
Publication date: January 2013
Region: Global
- Designing Safe Syringe Disposal Systems for Immunization Services: A Guide for Program Managers
Author: Lloyd J; Wittet S; Lasher H
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Developing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs that Meet Women's Needs
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Domestic Refrigerators for Vaccine Storage in Tunisia: Conclusion and Recommendations
This project Optimize document summarizes a laboratory report on performance testing of four models of domestic refrigerators that are available on the Tunisian market. Project Optimize contracted the tests to demonstrate to the government the importance of prequalification of models according to World Health Organization quality, safety, and standards for the storage of vaccines.
Author: Lloyd J, McCarney S, Ouhichi R
Publication date: October 2012
Region: Africa
- Eliminating Malaria: Learning From the Past, Looking Ahead
This report in the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series details previous malaria elimination and eradication efforts to date and summarizes ongoing progress in all malaria-endemic areas of the world.
Author: Rietveld A, Kurdova-Mintcheva R
Publication date: October 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- Emergency Contraception: It's Not Too Late To Prevent Pregnancy
This brochure, which is available in 14 languages, helps health care providers communicate with clients about emergency contraception. The brochure is formatted so that it can be downloaded, printed, photocopied (double-sided), and then folded. There are two versions for each language: one for letter-size paper, the other for A4-size paper. A new version of the brochure will be ready in early 2012.
Publication date: 1998
Region: North America and Europe
- Focus on Senegal
The first country report in the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series, published in collaboration with Senegal’s National Malaria Control Programme, describes how Senegal achieved a spectacular drop in its malaria burden in just five years.
Author: Mouzin E, Thior PM, Diouf MB, Sambou B
Publication date: November 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- Focus on Zambia
This report, part of the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series, shows how Zambia has built up a strong disease-control program, with well-defined goals and organizational plans.
Author: Mouzin E, Mukonka V, Kamuliwo M, et al
Publication date: April 2011
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- Giving Safe Injections: Using Auto-Disable Syringes for Immunization
Publication date: 2001
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.
Author: Drake JK
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Guidelines for Implementing Supportive Supervision: A Step-by-Step Guide with Tools to Support Immunization
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Harnessing Solar Energy for Health Needs
Many health facilities in remote areas operate without grid electricity, have unreliable electricity, or find that using electricity is too costly. In these settings, solar energy is a promising solution for powering the storage and transportation of vaccines and heat‐sensitive drugs at controlled temperatures. Project Optimize, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH, has been working with public and private partners on several solar technologies tailored to the following local electrical power conditions: unavailable or unreliable power, intermittent power, and reliable power.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- 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
- Helping Young People Become Youth Advocates for Immunization
Author: Smith T; Wittet S
Publication date: 2000
Region: Global
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
- HPV Testing: Promise and Challenges
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Immunization and Child Health Materials Development Guide
Author: Younger E; Wittet S; Hooks C; Lasher H
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
- Immunizing Children Against Hepatitis B: A Training Module for Doctors, Nurses, and Other Immunization Providers
Author: Wood S; Lasher H; Wittet S
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Improving Child Health and HIV-Free Survival: A Review of Current Research on Risks and Benefits of Infant Feeding Options for HIV-Positive Moms
This is a handout of a poster presented at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, in July 2010. The document presents evidence concerning the effect of breastfeeding avoidance and early cessation on child mortality and HIV-free survival in developing countries.
Publication date: July 2010
Region: Global
- Improving Nutrition for Mothers and Children
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project.
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Global
- Improving Vaccine Delivery Through Moving Warehouses
Project Optimize is collaborating with the Senegalese Ministry of Health to implement and validate a "moving warehouse" that will streamline the vaccine supply chain from the regional to the peripheral level. A moving warehouse is a truck composed of delivery teams that visit each health facility, check stock levels, and replenish stock as needed.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- Initial Country Assessments for depo-subQ provera 104™ in the Uniject™ Injection System
These executive summaries reveal findings and recommendations from initial assessments conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Senegal. These countries were evaluated in terms of service delivery, supply systems, and stakeholder perspectives with respect to the feasibility and appropriateness of introducing depo-subQ in Uniject.
Publication date: 2009
Region: Global
- An Integrated Approach to Health Information Systems in Guatemala
This project Optimize document describes an effort by the World Health Organization, PATH, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Guatemala Ministry of Public Health and Social Services to address challenges related to vaccine introduction. The goal is to develop an information system that will enable the digital recording and transmission of immunization data.
Publication date: November 2010
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
- 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.
Publication date: 2007
Region: Africa
Part of series: Kill or Cure? videos
- 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.
Author: Berman A
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Malaria Funding & Resource Utilization: The First Decade of Roll Back Malaria
This report, the first in the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series, confirms that investment in malaria control is rapidly saving lives and reaping far-reaching benefits for countries. The report demonstrates that without sustained and predictable long-term funding, the significant contribution of malaria control toward achievement of the five Millennium Development Goals that are closely tied to malaria control, as well as progress toward achieving the 2010 Abuja target of universal intervention coverage, could be reversed.
Author: Johansson EW, Cibulskis R, Steketee R
Publication date: March 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- 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
- Mathematical Modelling to Support Malaria Control and Elimination
This report, part of the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series, provides an overview of mathematical modelling, explains its history in relation to epidemiology and malaria, and details its implications and uses for global and national malaria control and elimination planning. The report aims to expand the dialogue within the global malaria community—and among public health decision-makers in particular—on when and how mathematical modelling can help inform malaria control programs and policies.
Author: Chitnis N, Schapira A, Smith DL, Smith T, Hay SI, Steketee R
Publication date: November 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- Meeting Requirements for Controlled Room Temperature Storage of Medicines
Project Optimize and the Tunisian Ministry of Public Health are collaborating to explore new logistics and supply chain solutions that can optimize the vaccine supply chain. This report describes a study that project Optimize commissioned to assess the least-cost, most energy-efficient solution for pharmaceutical stores at the regional and district level.
Author: Lloyd J, McCarney S
Publication date: October 2012
Region: Africa
- 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.
Author: Kols A
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- 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.
Publication date: 2013
Region: Africa
Part of series: Websites
- The Meningitis Vaccine Project: Frequently Asked Questions
This document provides answers to frequently asked questions about the Meningitis Vaccine Project, including facts about meningococcal meningitis, the MenAfriVac™ vaccine, and next steps for the project.
Publication date: June 2011
Region: Africa
- Meningococcal Meningitis
Key facts about meningococcal meningitis, including disease transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention; outbreak trends; and global public response.
Publication date: June 2011
Region: Africa
- A Moving Warehouse in Senegal
As part of the project Optimize traveling exhibit, this banner illustrates the concept of integrating vaccines with other health products in streamlined supply chains. It highlights Senegal’s “moving warehouse,” which was introduced to offer a better system of distribution down the chain. Rather than having health facilities collect vaccines and supplies, the moving warehouse delivery teams visit each facility, check inventory, and replenish stock as needed. Each team includes a supervisor and cold chain technician who provide supportive supervision to health care workers and ensure that equipment is operating correctly.
Publication date: April 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: Supply Systems for Today and Tomorrow: Project Optimize traveling exhibit
- Natural History of Cervical Cancer: Even Infrequent Screening of Older Women Saves Lives
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- 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.
Author: Berman A
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- 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. Project 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
- Optimize: Immunization Systems and Technologies for Tomorrow
Project 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. This brochure provides an overview of Optimize's areas of focus and activities.
Publication date: August 2009
Region: Global
- Optimize: Senegal Report
This report presents the results of demonstration projects and other activities undertaken in Senegal from 2009 to 2012 as part of a partnership between project Optimize (a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH) and the Senegalese Ministry of Health. The activities aimed to demonstrate innovations in the supply chain that can help meet the demands of an increasingly large and costly portfolio of vaccines.
Publication date: February 2013
Region: Africa
Part of series: Project Optimize country reports
- Outsourcing Vaccine Supply Chain and Logistics to the Private Sector
This project Optimize document provides supply chain managers in low- and middle-income countries with an overview of the potential benefits of outsourcing components of their vaccine logistics systems to the private sector. It also provides practical advice on determining whether outsourcing is a viable option.
Publication date: September 2012
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
- 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)
Author: Herdman C; Sherris J
Publication date: 2000
Region: Global
- Point-of-Service Data to Drive Vaccine Supply Chains
This fact sheet outlines the different approaches that project Optimize, a World Health Organization and PATH collaboration, is testing to demonstrate that a consumption‐based system that uses service-delivery-level data can have a beneficial impact on inventory management, stock levels, and vaccine wastage.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- Practical, Local Solutions for Safely Managing Contaminated Syringes and Other Medical Waste
Author: Wittet S; Bhattari M; Chaudray A
Publication date: 2004
Region: Global
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
- Preventing Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource Settings (Outlook, vol. 18, no. 1)
Author: Sherris JD; Herdman C
Publication date: September 2000
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- 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.
Author: Castilaw D, Wittet S
Publication date: June 2007
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Preventing Freezing in Vaccine Carriers
As part of the project Optimize traveling exhibit—an exhibit featuring supply chain innovations being developed and tested in different countries around the world—this banner emphasizes the importance of, and methods for, preventing accidental freezing of heat-sensitive products in vaccine carriers. It illustrates how different configurations of ice packs affect temperature and shows typical temperature readings of vaccine carriers containing frozen ice packs, conditioned ice packs, cool water packs, and no ice.
Publication date: April 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: Supply Systems for Today and Tomorrow: Project Optimize traveling exhibit
- Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage: Managing the Third Stage of Labor (Outlook, vol. 19, no. 3)
Author: Shane B
Publication date: September 2001
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Progress in Preventing Cervical Cancer: Updated Evidence on Vaccination and Screening (Outlook, vol. 27, no. 2)
This issue of Outlook provides an update on opportunities for preventing cervical cancer through vaccination and screening. It summarizes recent evidence on the safety and efficacy of human papillomavirus vaccines as well as successful approaches for screening and treatment in low-resource areas. Other topics include cost-effectiveness, communication and training, and implications for policy and programs.
Author: Murray M
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Proper Handling and Disposal of Auto-Disable Syringes and Safety Boxes: A Training Module for Clinic Managers and Immunization Providers
Author: Wittet S
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- ProVIC: Integrated HIV/AIDS Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), PATH and our partners are working from the ground up to better link people to HIV and other health services through the five-year ProVIC project. Our programmatic approach includes working through “champion communities” to link people with integrated HIV prevention, care, and support services. This flyer has two sides: one in English and the other in French. It is also available divided into each language.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Africa
- Questions Frequently Asked by Women
Publication date: 2003
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.
Author: Wittet S; Aston R
Publication date: 2000
Region: Global
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
- Reducing the Need for Parallel Supply Chains
Project Optimize, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH, aims to provide national immunization programs with recommendations to build integrated health supply systems, including strategic linkages with the parastatal and private sector. Ultimately, integration will allow public health programs to reduce uncertainties and risks, achieve economies of scale, shorten delivery lead times, improve procurement, provide better incentives for health workers, and improve quality of service to clients.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- 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.
Author: Kols A
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- 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
- 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
- Rotavirus Disease and Vaccines in Africa
This fact sheet provides an overview of rotavirus disease and vaccines in Africa. It includes information about the tremendous burden of rotavirus diarrhea in African children, rotavirus diarrhea treatment and prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines. It also lists countries that have introduced rotavirus vaccines into their national immunization programs.
Publication date: October 2012
Region: Africa
Part of series: Rotavirus disease and vaccines fact sheets
- Rotavirus Disease and Vaccines in Haiti
This fact sheet provides an overview of rotavirus disease and vaccines in Haiti. It includes information about the tremendous burden of rotavirus diarrhea in Haitian children, rotavirus diarrhea treatment and prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines. It also lists countries that have introduced rotavirus vaccines into their national immunization programs.
Publication date: April 2013
Region: Latin America
Part of series: Rotavirus disease and vaccines fact sheets
- Rotavirus Disease and Vaccines in Tanzania
This fact sheet provides an overview of rotavirus disease and vaccines in Tanzania. It includes information about the tremendous burden of rotavirus diarrhea in Tanzanian children, rotavirus diarrhea treatment and prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines. It also lists countries that have introduced rotavirus vaccines into their national immunization programs.
Publication date: November 2012
Region: Africa
Part of series: Rotavirus disease and vaccines fact sheets
- Saving Lives With Malaria Control: Counting Down to the Millennium Development Goals
The third report of the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series analyzes the impact of malaria control scale-up on child mortality over the last decade in 34 malaria-endemic African countries. Using the Lives Saved Tool, this report demonstrates the dramatic progress made toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals related to malaria and child survival—and the potential consequences of decreasing our commitment to fighting the disease.
Author: Eisele T, Larsen D, Walker N, Steketee R, Cibulskis R
Publication date: September 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
- Sayana® Press: Pilot Introduction and Evaluation
These fact sheets describe PATH's pilot introduction project to deliver the injectable contraceptive Sayana® Press (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate or DMPA) to women in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The fact sheets also provide clinical information about Sayana® Press.
Publication date: February 2013
Region: Global
- Senegal: Integrating and Streamlining Health Supply Chains
This document describes how project Optimize is collaborating with the Senegalese Ministry of Health to demonstrate innovations in the supply chain that can help to increase efficiency and improve performance, preparing the country for the introduction of new vaccines in the future.
Publication date: August 2012
Region: Global
- Some Vaccine Costs Are Hidden Below the Surface
This banner serves as the backdrop for a vaccine presentation game in the project Optimize traveling exhibit—an exhibit featuring supply chain innovations being developed and tested in different countries around the world. The banner illustrates that while vaccine price is a big part of the total cost, there are many other important costs associated with each type of vaccine presentation that are less obvious, including costs for shipping, cold chain maintenance, and training.
Publication date: April 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: Supply Systems for Today and Tomorrow: Project Optimize traveling exhibit
- 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
- Taking Advantage of the True Heat Stability of Vaccines
Project Optimize, a World Health Organization and PATH collaboration, is working to enable immunization programs to take advantage of the true stability of vaccines by labeling them for use at ambient temperatures in a controlled temperature chain for limited periods of time as appropriate to the stability of the antigen.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- Temperature Monitoring for Vaccine Quality
In collaboration with the Albanian Ministry of Health, project Optimize has installed a short message service–based system that monitors and logs temperature conditions in peripheral cold chain equipment. The team aims to assess the benefits of remote alarm systems over nonconnected temperature loggers.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- Treating Precancerous Cervical Lesions
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Tunisia: Demonstrating Innovative Health Supply Chain Solutions
This document describes how project Optimize and the Tunisian Ministry of Public Health are collaborating to explore new logistics and supply chain solutions that can optimize the vaccine supply chain.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Africa
- Understanding Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Senegal
This fact sheet describes a phase 4, post-licensure influenza vaccine effectiveness study that PATH and its partners are conducting in Senegal. The study seeks to better understand the extent of the influenza disease burden in tropical Africa, as well as the potential of current seasonal influenza vaccines to reduce influenza-related deaths in the developing world. Ultimately, study data could help public health officials decide how to best use influenza vaccines in Senegal and in similar tropical countries.
Publication date: May 2011
Region: Africa
- Understanding Influenza Vaccine Performance Among Children in Senegal
This fact sheet describes a phase 2 influenza vaccine clinical study that PATH and our partners are conducting in Senegal. The study seeks to better understand the performance of seasonal influenza vaccines in a tropical, low-resource region of the country. Overall, the results from this study will provide evidence to support larger research efforts to determine the most feasible and efficient ways of protecting populations in tropical, developing Africa from influenza through the use of vaccines.
Publication date: April 2013
Region: Africa
- Using a Needle Remover
This document provides the user with guidelines on how to use a Balcan type needle remover safely.
Author: Berman A
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Using Uniject to Increase the Safety and Effectiveness of Hepatitis B Immunization
Author: Nelson C; Widjaya A; Wittet S
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
Part of series: CVP Occasional Papers
- Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA): Evidence to Date
The Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (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
- 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.
Author: ACCP
Publication date: 2004
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
- World Malaria Day 2010: Africa Update
The second report in the Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series benchmarks the remarkable progress and momentum that are building toward halting malaria in Africa.
Author: Johansson EW, Steketee R
Publication date: April 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series
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