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- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 3)
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.
Author: PATH
Publication date: September 2004
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 3, Issue 2)
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.
Author: PATH
Publication date: August 2006
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 3, Issue 3)
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.
Author: PATH
Publication date: December 2006
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 2)
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.
Publication date: September 2007
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 6, Issue 3)
This issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH’s work to optimize vaccine supply systems, advance development of malaria vaccine candidates, prevent postpartum hemorrhage to save mothers’ lives, address health needs in Tanzania, and use monitoring and evaluation systems to further PATH’s mission. It also highlights two prestigious awards that PATH recently received.
Publication date: December 2009
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 7, Issue 1)
This issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH’s work to improve maternal and newborn health around the world. Articles cover innovative technologies to save newborns, better nutrition for mothers and children, methods to make childbirth safer, and women’s access to more options for family planning.
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 9, Issue 1)
This issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH’s Sure Start project, which helped to improve maternal and newborn health in India. Other articles cover strategies to eliminate malaria, advocacy and communications to improve tuberculosis control, a landmark vaccine introduction in Ghana, and a new child-health initiative in southern Africa.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 9, Issue 3)
This issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH’s work to increase access to lifesaving products for women. It features a commentary by Catharine Taylor, who directs PATH’s Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Program. Other articles cover efforts to improve health and nutrition with orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes in Kenya, increase hepatitis B vaccination for newborns in Vietnam, fight childhood tuberculosis in Tanzania, and assess a range of technologies for their potential impact in reducing maternal deaths.
Publication date: December 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Enhancing Health for Mothers and Children: PATH Delivers Innovative Solutions to Save Lives and Support Strong Families
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work in maternal and child health.
Publication date: December 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's areas of focus fact sheets
- Evaluation of a Clean Delivery Kit Intervention in Preventing Cord Infection and Puerperal Sepsis in Mwanza, Tanzania
This is the final research report on the evaluation of clean delivery kits in Tanzania. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of a delivery kit intervention on reducing cord infection and puerperal sepsis among newborns and their mothers. Study results indicate that use of the clean delivery kit had a positive effect on reducing both cord infection and puerperal sepsis. The effect of the kit on reducing cord infection was much greater than on puerperal sepsis, but both were significant.
Author: Winani S; Coffey P; Wood S; Mosha F; Chirwa T; Changalucha J
Publication date: 2005
Region: Africa
- Gentamicin in Uniject
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the gentamicin in Uniject project at PATH.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- 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
- 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
- A HealthTech Report: Assessment of Willingness to Pay for Oxytocin in the Uniject™ Injection System Among Private Midwives in Indonesia
This report details a study of willingness to pay for oxytocin in the Uniject™ injection system among private midwives in Indonesia. The study also helped to reveal the preferred brands and use of oxytocin, assess the perception of oxytocin in Uniject™ with or without a time-temperature indicator, and identify possible challenges and barriers to market introduction and adoption of oxytocin in Uniject™ in Indonesia.
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Asia
- A HealthTech Report: Oxytocin in Uniject: Market Landscape Analysis
This study was an external analysis of the viability of supporting oxytocin in the Uniject™ injection system as a niche product in both the public and private sectors globally. A major component of this analysis was to conduct separate market analyses of 30 countries identified by the US Agency for International Development as priority countries for maternal health interventions.
Publication date: June 2011
Region: Global
- Healthy Mothers and HIV-Free Babies: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province
This document describes the work of the Khusela project, which focuses on integrating services for family planning, reproductive health, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Publication date: February 2010
Region: Africa
- A Healthy Start for a Healthy Life - Overview
Overview of the ASUH (Healthy Start for a Healthy Life) program in Indonesia.
Publication date: 2003
Region: Asia
- Improving Availability and Increasing Access to Oxytocin in the Uniject™ Injection System
Globally, the leading cause of maternal death is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). In the absence of a skilled birth attendant, the World Health Organization recommends that a uterotonic drug, preferably oxytocin, be given to prevent PPH. This fact sheet describes how oxytocin in the Uniject™ injection system is one of the tools that programs in Latin America can use to expand access to oxytocin for prevention and treatment of PPH.
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Latin America
- Improving Delivery of Nevirapine for Infants
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 work to improve single-dose packaging of nevirapine for programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- Improving Health for Families Everywhere: PATH Reaches Mothers, Children, and Communities With Key Innovations for Strong Futures
PATH has worked to improve maternal and child health, nutrition, and family planning in developing countries for more than 30 years. This brochure describes our integrated approach to reach mothers, children, and communities with key innovations for strong futures.
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global

