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Advocacy for Better Health’s Priority Issue Areas

Advocacy for Better Health (ABH) advances policies, budgets, and programs for a variety of health topics, including HIV and AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, nutrition, maternal, newborn and child health, and sexual and reproductive health. In addition, ABH focuses on three cross-cutting priorities: domestic financing, commodity security, and human resources for health. These briefs highlight ABH priority issue areas and outline calls to action.

Publication date: June 2017

Region: Africa, Global

Thogomelo Project: Orphans and Other Children Made Vulnerable by HIV and AIDS—Caregiver and Child Protection Training

In 2008, the South African National Department of Social Development initiated the Thogomelo project with the support of the United States Agency for International Development. PATH and Mott MacDonald Development South Africa (MM) (previously known as Health and Development Africa) managed the project, whose fundamental goal is to strengthen South Africa’s capacity to care for its community caregivers (CCGs) and to protect vulnerable children. The Thogomelo project aims to ensure the emotional well-being of CCGs, who form the backbone of community-based support to vulnerable children and others in need of care.

Publication date: June 2017

Region: Africa

Advocacy for Better Health

Advocacy for Better Health is a US Agency for International Development five-year, US$20 million project aimed at improving the availability, accessibility, and quality of health and social services in Uganda. Implemented by PATH and Initiatives Inc., the project aspires to engage communities in the planning and monitoring of health and social services, and enhance the capacity of civil society organizations to represent citizen interests and conduct advocacy to strengthen health-related policies, budgets, and programs.

Publication date: May 2017

Region: Africa

Overview of Gavi Full Country Evaluations Findings

The Gavi Full Country Evaluations was a prospective study from 2013 to 2016 in four countries: Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia. The study aimed to understand and quantify the barriers and drivers of immunization program improvements, with a focus on the contributions made by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. These briefs summarize the key findings and recommendations from the evaluation period.

Publication date: May 2017

Region: Africa, Asia

Frequently Asked Questions About Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject)

This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of Sayana® Press, a lower-dose formulation of the contraceptive Depo-Provera®. Sayana Press provides three months of contraceptive protection per dose, and is small, light, and requires minimal training to use—making it suitable for community-based distribution and administration through self-injection. For more information, please visit our Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: March 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) introduction and research fact sheets

Increased Investment in Research and Development for Health in Kenya

This brief highlights the importance of increased investment in research and development for health in Kenya.

Publication date: March 2017

Region: Africa

Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) Clinical Brief

This brief provides a clinical overview of the injectable contraceptive Sayana® Press, which contains 30% less depot medroxyprogesterone acetate than the intramuscular presentation of Depo-Provera®. It is administered subcutaneously through the prefilled Uniject injection system, an autodisable injection device. For more information, please visit our Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: March 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) introduction and research fact sheets

A Workshop Curriculum on Community Mobilization and Advocacy Action Planning

The Community Mobilization and Action Planning workshop was created as an addendum to PATH’s three-day policy advocacy strategy development curriculum, which aims to increase the understanding and skills among individuals and organizations to plan, facilitate, and implement policy advocacy strategies to bring about change. Using PATH’s 10-part framework for assessing policy advocacy options and making strategic decisions about goals and activities, Advocacy for Better Health developed this Community Mobilization and Action Planning workshop focused on community-level advocacy and health-related change.

Publication date: March 2017

Region: Africa

Navigating the Research Approval and Regulatory Landscape for Health Technologies in Kenya

This brief highlights the important role of research and regulations in developing health technologies and the work Kenya is doing to strengthen its regulatory environment.

Publication date: February 2017

Region: Africa

Monitoring Sayana® Press Pilot Introduction

From 2014 to 2016, PATH coordinated pilot introduction of the subcutaneous injectable contraceptive Sayana Press in Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, and Uganda. These materials feature guidance for monitoring Sayana Press introductions, monitoring results, and lessons learned, which can help inform contraceptive introduction programming for Sayana Press and other methods. For more information, please visit our Sayana Press introduction and research page.