Advocacy is an effective method to achieve global health goals by ensuring that necessary resources, policies, and political will are available to support important programs. These resources help new and experienced advocates assess policy advocacy options, plan goals and activities, and develop a comprehensive strategy for advocacy impact. For more information, please visit: http://sites.path.org/advocacyandpolicy/how-we-do-it/strengthen-advocacy-capacity/.

Publication date: July 2016

Region: Africa, Asia, Global

PATH seeks to assess diagnostic needs, survey potential solutions, and determine an appropriate strategy to identify the point in the cycle of trachoma transmission, infection, and elimination that would best be targeted for a new diagnostic technology and to articulate the business case for its development.

Publication date: July 2016

Region: Global

This fact sheet outlines the importance of tackling respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the top cause of newborn lower respiratory infections worldwide. It highlights the need to prepare for incoming RSV interventions (including vaccines for maternal immunization and antibodies given at birth) and to work across vaccine and prenatal care arenas.

Publication date: June 2016

Region: Global

In partnership with Congolese policymakers and civil society organizations, PATH is working to improve health through advocacy at the national level and in key provinces.

Publication date: June 2016

Region: Africa

This fact sheet describes PATH's work to control and eliminate malaria, including expanding the use of lifesaving tools, identifying and developing better diagnostics and drugs, devising new strategies for malaria control, and accelerating the development of malaria vaccines.

Publication date: June 2016

Region: Global

Part of series: Areas of focus fact sheets

This case study explores PATH’s effective scale-up of a Digital Immunization Registry System (ImmReg) in Vietnam. The web-based application is accessed by health workers via computers and smartphones to record and manage immunization data. ImmReg also sends Short Message Service (SMS) reminders to caretakers of children due for vaccinations.

Publication date: June 2016

Region: Asia, Global

PATH is collaborating with the Novartis Foundation to introduce an innovative healthcare delivery model designed to improve hypertension management and control in Vietnam. The three-year program aims to improve blood pressure control among adults by increasing access to and use of high-quality hypertension services that are sustainable and scalable.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Asia

This fact sheet outlines PATH's pneumococcal vaccine project from a technical perspective. It includes an overview of PATH's vaccine development portfolio and partners to support the development of vaccines against pneumonia and other pneumococcal diseases that can be effective and affordable for children in the developing world.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Global

PATH and the US government work together to save lives and improve health in developing countries, especially for women and children. These educational fact sheets help policymakers understand the breadth of US government support for programs focused on ending preventable maternal and child deaths, improving global immunization, and fostering global health research and development, while also highlighting the impact and potential of global health innovations through PATH examples.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: North America and Europe

GHS Bulletin provides updates on outbreaks of global importance, news on issues in global health security, and progress in PATH’s country activities in support of the US government’s Global Health Security Agenda.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Global

Part of series: E-newsletters

Following a user-centered design approach, PATH developed a portable hand-wash station. This fact sheet details the technology solution specifications and current status of the project.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Global

Our world is increasingly interconnected, and while this raises risks, it also brings opportunities to collaborate on solutions that keep communities safe. PATH recently joined with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other organizations to help advance the US government’s pledge to support, assist, and empower poor countries in anticipating, preventing, and overcoming infectious disease outbreaks.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Global

Saving Lives Through Better Data provides quarterly updates on the BID Initiative's efforts to improve data collection, quality, and use. It includes updates on progress, partnerships, and specific activities.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Global

Part of series: E-newsletters

PATH collaborates with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to advance global health innovations. This fact sheet provides examples of successes that PATH, DoD, and our partners have had in working to adapt, test, and expand access to tools and technologies that can reduce illness in the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Africa, North America and Europe, Global

PATH and Johnson & Johnson Vietnam are collaborating on Breath for Life, a new project to reduce childhood tuberculosis (TB) illness and death in Vietnam. Breath for life will strengthen the detection, treatment, and management of TB in children in NgheAn, a province highly burdened by TB, in partnership with the Vietnam National Tuberculosis Programme.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Asia

Even the most effective health products can’t improve health or save lives if they don’t reach the people who need them. That’s why markets matter. This infographic outlines all the players involved in creating a healthy market to make products available to individuals who can use them to live healthy, productive lives.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

The United States has a long history of leadership in global immunization. This educational fact sheet created by PATH and several advocacy partners highlights US government efforts in global immunization, including support for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; UNICEF; and the World Health Organization, as well as immunization activities carried out by the US Agency for International Development, US Department of Defense, and various agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: North America and Europe

The regulation of health technologies is a critical component of every country’s public health system and ensures that high-quality, safe health technologies reach the people who need them most. To harness momentum for regulatory harmonization, the Pan-African Parliament, New Partnership for African Development, and African Union Commission spearheaded the development of the African Union Model Law on Medical Products Regulation, which guides member states and regional economic communities in harmonizing regulatory systems and providing an enabling environment for the development and scale-up of health technologies.

Publication date: March 2016

Region: Africa

The BID Initiative is grounded in the belief that better data plus better decisions will lead to better health outcomes. The infographic depicts the initiative’s approach through Products, Policies & Practices, People, and Packaging.

Publication date: February 2016

Region: Global

This document includes a narrative and supporting graphic illustrating our theory on how to improve data systems and accelerate data use over a ten-year period in order to perpetuate a cycle of better data production and enhanced use of information to improve the performance of health systems.

Publication date: February 2016

Region: Africa, Global