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.

2001 Annual Report

This report outlines our efforts to improve the health of women and children in developing countries. The report describes the year’s milestones and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and global presence.

2003 Annual Report

PATH’s approach—advancing technologies, strengthening health systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors—improves the lives of people facing the world’s most difficult health challenges. PATH’s 2003 annual report describes the year’s milestones and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and global presence.

2004 Progress Report

PATH works to reduce the burden of disease and bring sustainable solutions to the developing world. PATH’s 2004 progress report describes the year’s milestones and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and global presence.

2005 Progress Report: Partnering for Impact

The success of our work depends on forging strong partnerships with a range of individuals and agencies across the globe. PATH’s 2005 progress report describes the year’s milestones and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and global presence.

2006 Progress Report: Health Within Reach

PATH is working to bring health within reach for people everywhere—regardless of where they are born. PATH’s 2006 progress report describes the year’s milestones and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and global presence.

2007 Progress Report: Innovation to Impact

This annual report highlights new initiatives that have immense potential, such as efforts to bring safe water to low-income households in India, and records progress on long-term goals, such as halting the spread of infections including malaria and HIV. The report includes information about the organization's finances, leadership, and global presence.

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.

2009 Annual Report

PATH and our partners are making demonstrable progress in our effort to improve health for the world's most vulnerable populations. PATH's 2009 annual report describes the year's milestones and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and presence.

2010 Annual Report: Our Year in Review

PATH is making significant strides in helping people around the world have a chance at a healthy life. PATH's 2010 annual report recounts a timeline of accomplishments and provides information about the organization's finances, leadership, and presence.

Ability and Willingness to Pay for Family Planning in Vietnam

This study offers policy analysis of data previously collected on the ability and willingness to pay for family planning in Vietnam. PATH is helping the government of Vietnam to design a total market approach to family planning, which calls for a coordinated response by the full range of family planning service providers to meet a population’s diverse needs.

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.

Accelerating New Vaccine Development Against Pneumonia and Other Pneumococcal Diseases: Advancing Vaccines Against the Leading Cause of Childhood Deaths

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 years old in the developing world.

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.

Accelerating Vaccine Development to Save Lives

Acceptability of a Modified Nipple Shield Device to Reduce Breast Milk Transmission of HIV in Developing Countries: A Qualitative Study

Presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in 2010, this poster summarizes the results of a PATH and FHI analysis of the hypothetical acceptability of a modified nipple shield device (MNSD). This novel, low-cost MNSD is based on a conventional nipple shield that could be used discreetly by HIV-positive mothers to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV during breastfeeding.

Access for All: The Secretariat of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Annual Report 2010

The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition is a global partnership dedicated to making essential reproductive health products available in low- and middle-income countries. As the Coalition’s administrative and operative arm, the Secretariat works to ensure that our partnership functions smoothly and achieves its goals. This report highlights key successes achieved in 2010.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Addressing Gender to Improve Health

This fact sheet highlights how PATH integrates gender across its programmatic activities.

Addressing Poor Health in Nairobi's Slums

This is one of a series of fact sheets that describe PATH's current and past work in Kenya. The fact sheets focus on specific projects as well as unique approaches that cut across projects. This fact sheet describes the work of the Nairobi Urban Health and Poverty Partnership to address the poor health outcomes associated with rapid urbanization and the related inaccessibility of adequate basic services.