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Subject: Maternal and child health
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- Delivery Kit
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes delivery kit work at PATH.
Publication date: January 2008
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Developing Drugs for Neglected Diseases: PATH Advances High-Quality, Affordable Treatments for the Developing World
This fact sheet describes PATH's drug development program, including our work to develop new treatments for malaria, kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis), and diarrheal disease.
Publication date: September 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's areas of focus fact sheets
- Developing New Vaccines Against Diarrheal Disease
This fact sheet highlights PATH's work to develop safe, effective, and affordable vaccines against Shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, two of the leading bacterial causes of diarrheal disease.
Publication date: June 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: Diarrheal disease fact sheets
- Diarrheal Disease and Childhood Pneumonia in Cambodia
Childhood pneumonia and diarrheal disease are the two leading causes of preventable deaths among children under the age of five in Cambodia and around the world. This fact sheet gives an overview of how PATH is working on an integrated approach to the prevention and treatment of these two illnesses in Cambodia.
Publication date: August 2011
Region: Asia
- Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer
Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer presents scientific evidence to support strategies to scale up use of interventions, including safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene, breastfeeding and optimal complementary feeding, rotavirus vaccines, zinc treatment, and oral rehydration therapy/oral rehydration solution. In addition, the report features case studies of on-the-ground programs that bring these tools to communities that need them most. The document is available as one large file or as three smaller files for easier downloading.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
- Diarrhoea Dialogues: From Policies to Progress
Diarrhoea Dialogues: From Policies to Progress reviews national policies and strategies to control diarrhea in three African countries: Ethiopia, Mali, and Zambia. The report provides recommendations based on research findings and calls for global and national decision-makers to take coordinated action to overcome challenges and address diarrhea by engaging in dialogue and working together to save lives.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
- Digital Public Health Platform
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH’s work to develop the Digital Public Health platform as a way for local health workers in low-resource settings to deliver community-led, culturally appropriate videos to patients during household visits and community gatherings.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 1)
The January 2004 issue of PATH's programmatic newsletter focuses on five projects: preventing HIV and AIDS in the Philippines, evaluating a malaria vaccine candidate, increasing youth access to services through pharmacies, advancing the Ultra Rice technology, and using theater to encourage social change.
Publication date: January 2004
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 2)
This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles five PATH projects: Entre Amigas, which is reaching young adolescent girls in Nicaragua with reproductive health and life skills; the Healthy Start for a Healthy Life project, which is improving the care of newborns in Indonesia; the Ukraine TB project, which is implementing training and IEC activities to control tuberculosis; PATH's Children's Vaccine Program, which is managing medical waste in Nepal; and the Horizons program, which is influencing gender norms among young men in Brazil.
Publication date: May 2004
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- 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 2, Issue 1)
The April 2005 issue of Directions in Global Health features five PATH projects: efforts to improve health among migrant communities in China, Thailand, and Cambodia; the Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH's Woman's Condom, procurement of safe-injection supplies under the PEPFAR program, and the Rotavirus Vaccine Program.
Author: PATH
Publication date: April 2005
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 1)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH's vaccine partnership efforts: PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), pneumococcal vaccine development project, Meningitis Vaccine Project, cervical cancer vaccine project, and Rotavirus Vaccine Program. The issue also features a case study of the vaccine vial monitor.
Author: PATH
Publication date: May 2007
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 5, Issue 1)
This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles our effort to expand access to safe water, particularly in India; a project to improve nutrition for infants and young children; our thermostable vaccine work; surveillance activities for Japanese encephalitis; and our work under the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
Publication date: May 2008
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 5, Issue 3)
This issue of Directions in Global Health describes PATH's work to control and prevent diarrheal disease, reach out to young scouts in Kenya and Uganda with HIV/AIDS information, assess the impact of malaria control efforts in Zambia, conduct DHS surveys, and shape HPV vaccine introduction in Peru.
Author: PATH
Publication date: December 2008
Region: Global
Part of series: Directions in Global Health
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 6, Issue 1)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH’s work to advance technologies to improve global health. Featured technologies include low-cost tests to screen for cervical cancer, a new vaccine to protect against meningitis in Africa, products to prevent diarrheal disease, and Ultra Rice food fortification technology. The issue also includes a summary of PATH’s approach to developing and introducing innovative health technologies.
Publication date: May 2009
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

