This report describes a pilot project that PATH conducted in the Afar Region of Ethiopia that aimed to increase vaccination coverage through social mobilization committees and communication activities. It examines the challenges to achieving vaccination coverage in the region, provides success stories demonstrating behavior change, and best practices and lessons learned.

Publication date: September 2016

Region: Africa

During the past 25 years, Zambia has made tremendous progress in preventing deaths and improving health among women, newborns, and children. Despite this, many still do not receive basic health services and lack access to essential medicines, products, and technologies. This report demonstrates the potential impact of increased prioritization of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health commodities and interventions in order to support advocates as they interact with decision-makers to influence policy and budget changes.

Publication date: September 2016

Region: Africa

PATH’s advocacy work builds on and continues global efforts to expand access to simple, essential, and affordable medicines, medical devices, and other health supplies to prevent deaths of women and children worldwide.

Publication date: August 2016

Region: Africa, Asia, Latin America

Pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries have inadequate access to lifesaving maternal health products, resulting in preventable deaths when complications arise during pregnancy or childbirth. Healthy markets are essential to improving access to these products. This series of advocacy papers provides specific and actionable recommendations that advocates and decision-makers—globally and in three target countries:  Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Nigeria—can use to raise awareness of the urgent actions needed and push for positive policy change to improve the quality and availability of essential maternal health products.

Publication date: August 2016

Region: Africa, Asia, Global

This study provides an analysis of the public budget and expenditure for research and development (R&D) in South Africa, with a specific focus on health R&D. It outlines the government’s research agenda and R&D funding trends across all departments, as well as funding and trends for health-specific R&D in the Departments of Health, Science and Technology, and Trade and Industry.

Publication date: July 2016

Region: Africa

The East African Community (EAC) has demonstrated commitment to harmonize the regulation of health technologies and build regulatory capacity across partner states. This document provides an overview of current regulatory systems at the EAC level and within partner states. It also summarizes key challenges and identifies potential solutions that could be the focus of future policy advocacy efforts.

Publication date: July 2016

Region: Africa

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, as well as research on the potential for self-injection of Sayana® Press. The fact sheets also provide clinical information about Sayana® Press.

Publication date: July 2016

Region: Africa, Global

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

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 report makes recommendations for policy and procedural changes that may improve supply chain performance, leading to better immunization and health outcomes in Uganda.

Publication date: June 2016

Region: Africa

Population-wide drug-based strategies are potentially powerful accelerators for malaria elimination. This report explores their role in reducing malaria parasite prevalence and explains the differences between the strategies that have been evaluated. It reviews results from PATH-supported research into population-wide drug-based strategies in three malaria-endemic countries in Africa.

Publication date: June 2016

Region: Africa

Part of series: Malaria learning series

In Zambia, the continued prevalence of congenital syphilis is a risk to newborns, and can cause premature birth, low birth weight, birth defects, and even newborn death. When pregnant women are tested for syphilis, however, service providers can treat the infection and prevent transmission to newborns. PATH is focusing advocacy efforts on the scale-up of a newly available rapid syphilis test, which offers a low-cost, easy-to-use screening option.

Publication date: May 2016

Region: Africa

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

Investments in the health and well-being of girls and women yield exponential gains, improving their lives as well as the productivity and prosperity of families, communities, and future generations. PATH works to place girls’ and women’s health and rights at the top of global and national development agendas—including how we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Africa, Global

In July 2014, PATH launched a coordinated introduction of the subcutaneous injectable contraceptive Sayana Press in Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, and Uganda. This brief features monitoring results and lessons learned to date, 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.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Africa, Global

PATH is working with the government of Kenya to advance evidence-based policy solutions at the national level and in select counties to save lives and improve health in local communities.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Africa

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

In Zambia, PATH’s advocacy and policy program plays an integral role in ensuring that policies are developed and implemented to meet the health needs of the most vulnerable populations. Working alongside decision-makers and key partners, PATH advocates at the national level for increased resource allocations and evidence-based policy changes to accelerate the development and delivery of maternal and newborn health interventions.

Publication date: March 2016

Region: Africa

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

This analysis documents digital health–related learning networks in Africa to better understand the current landscape and the approaches being used by these networks to develop capacity. We examined key strengths and differentiators of 13 selected networks, raising important considerations for funders and stakeholders interested in supporting learning networks as a means to develop digital health capacity.

Publication date: February 2016

Region: Africa, Global