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- Investing in Stronger Vaccine Supply Chains: Reaching Children With Immunization, Saving Lives
This brochure describes how advances in vaccine supply chain systems can accelerate the delivery of lifesaving immunizations to people who need them. The document offers recommendations for global policymakers to support countries in building more effective supply chain systems.
Publication date: September 2012
Region: Global
- Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Introduction in Cambodia
This fact sheet describes PATH's partnership with Cambodia's Ministry of Health to conduct sentinel surveillance on Japanese encephalitis and introduce a vaccine in 2009.
Publication date: December 2010
Region: Asia
- Lung Support for Newborns
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on low-cost respiratory support devices for newborns.
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Maximizing the Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships
This document describes PATH's approach to maximizing the availability, accessibility, and affordability of global health technologies through private-sector collaboration. This approach is critical in enabling global access of the results of our private-sector partnerships. This edition is a condensed version of the 12-page document, Bringing New Health Technologies Within Reach for Everyone. It is supported by six case studies illustrating how PATH has applied this approach to a food-fortification technology, pneumococcal vaccines, human papillomavirus screening, Japanese encephalitis vaccines, malaria vaccines, and the Uniject® prefilled injection device.
Publication date: November 2009
Region: Global
- Meeting the Global Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Our Strategies and Expertise Help Communities Reduce Risk and Provide Access to Lifesaving Services
PATH is committed to collaborating with partners around the world to improve and expand effective HIV/AIDS prevention, diagnosis, care, and treatment services. Using evidence-based, integrated, and innovative approaches, our work reaches communities across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- mHealth, eHealth, Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 29, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook explores the promise and current realities of new information technologies in service to reproductive health programming in low-resource settings (including HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and maternal and child health interventions). The issue examines new approaches and looks to the future for current needs and potential solutions.
Author: Wittet S
Publication date: December 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Microbicide Delivery Device
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on microbicide delivery devices.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Microneedle Patches
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, to evaluate and create a microneedle patch that will allow people to self-administer influenza vaccine.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Mobile Midwife Platform
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH and our partners’ work to provide minimally trained health care providers in developing countries with a tool designed to improve postnatal maternal and newborn care in rural clinic- and home-based settings. The tool, which runs on a mobile device, provides midwives with localized guidance on clinical decisions, patient record management, and instructional support.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Mucosal Immunization Technologies
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on mucosal immunization technologies.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Neonatal Resuscitator
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet descibes the neonatal resuscitator project funded by USAID under the HealthTech program at PATH.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- New Design of the Ceramic Water Pot
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on a new ceramic water pot designed to filter water for consumers in low-resource settings.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Newly Designed Ceramic Water Pot for Low-Income Households
PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing innovative methods to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and storage products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This project brief summarizes PATH's product development process, in partnership with Hydrologic, a Cambodian manufacturer, to improve the ceramic water purifier for low- and middle-income families.
Author: Murray M
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Asia
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- NIFTYâ„¢ Infant Feeding Cup
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work, in collaboration with our partners, to develop a prototype cup to deliver expressed breast milk or formula to infants unable to breastfeed in low-resource countries.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Non-Instrumented Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Device
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop technologies that facilitate electricity-free, instrument-free nucleic acid amplification.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Non-Pneumatic Antishock Garment
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to make the non-pneumatic antishock garment—an effective tool for the management of postpartum hemorrhage—affordable, available, and accessible in low-resource settings.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Noninvasive Technology for Anemia Detection
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH’s work to advance an accurate, noninvasive device that could be used to screen for anemia in low-resource settings at the point of care by minimally trained health workers.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Optimize: Immunization Systems and Technologies for Tomorrow
Project Optimize, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH, has been given a unique mandate to think far into the future: to put technological and scientific advances to work, helping define the ideal characteristics and specifications for health products; and to create a vaccine supply chain that is flexible and robust enough to handle an increasingly large and costly portfolio of vaccines. This brochure provides an overview of Optimize's areas of focus and activities.
Publication date: August 2009
Region: Global
- Oxytocin in Uniject
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the oxytocin in Uniject project at PATH.
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Packaging Solutions for Nevirapine
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's current project to improve packaging of nevirapine used to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates

