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- PATH's Safe Water Project in Vietnam and Cambodia
Safe drinking water is essential to good health and quality of life. However, in resource-poor settings like Vietnam and Cambodia, water often comes from unsafe sources and carries dangerous pathogens. This fact sheet outlines the work that PATH is implementing in Vietnam and Cambodia to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain good-quality household water treatment and storage products for low-income populations.
Publication date: July 2008
Region: Asia
- PATH's Safe Water Project in Vietnam: Household Water Treatment and Storage: Findings From a Distribution Channel Analysis
Commercial markets are a viable model for selling some products to the very poor in Vietnam. But can household water treatment and storage products be provided in the same way? This fact sheet discusses the results of an analysis of distribution and marketing channels in Vietnam that PATH conducted to help answer that question.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Asia
- PATH's Safe Water Project in Vietnam: Household Water Treatment and Storage: Findings From a Qualitative Consumer Research Study
PATH conducted a qualitative study of consumers in four regions of the country to inform potential interventions to increase access to household water treatment and storage products through the commercial sector in Vietnam. This fact sheet summarizes the findings from this consumer research study.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Asia
- PATH's Use of Flexible Funding: 2005–2006 Report to Donors
This document is the first annual report to donors on PATH's use of flexible funding (the "Catalyst Fund") and includes highlights of our work to pursue state-of-the-art diagnostic tools for low-resource settings, strengthen avian influenza prevention in countries at high risk of epidemics, and move forward with a fortified rice premix that is being adopted in several countries in Asia.
Publication date: October 2007
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's reports to contributors
- PATH's Water Filter: A New Standard for Household Water Treatment
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work, in collaboration with our partners, to design a household water treatment and storage device specifically for the developing-world consumer.
Publication date: August 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- PATH's Work in HIV and AIDS
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of PATH's work in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and advocacy.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- PATH's Work in Tuberculosis
Fact sheet describing some of PATH's global HIV/AIDS and TB.
Author: Crawford K; Gerber W
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- PATH: 25 Years of Innovation in Global Health
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- PATH’s Experience in Strengthening Health Systems
Strengthening health systems is a core component of PATH’s overall mission to improve the health of people around the world. We pursue deliberate and measurable outcomes related to service management, policy, financing, supply systems, human resources, and information and monitoring systems. This document describes PATH’s experience in strengthening health systems.
Publication date: August 2008
Region: Global
- Paving the Way for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevention: Vaccine Development Against a Widespread Cause of Respiratory Illness in Infants and Young Children
This fact sheet highlights PATH's work to develop a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for use in a maternal immunization strategy in the developing world that can protect infants in the critical early months of life.
Publication date: September 2013
Region: Global
- Pharmacy Provision of Youth-Friendly Services: A Toolbox with Resources for On-the-Job Training of Pharmacy Staff in Cambodia
A resource for on-the-job training of pharmacy staff that reinforces knowledge about STIs, EC, and regular contraceptive methods as well as provision of youth-friendly services.
Author: Srimuangboon H; Hutchings J; Weldin M
Publication date: 2005
Region: Asia
- Piloting a Malaria Public-Private Mix Model in Cambodia
This fact sheet describes PATH's work to improve malaria diagnosis, treatment, and referral practices in the private sector to contain drug-resistant parasites in Cambodia.
Publication date: January 2011
Region: Asia
- Piloting Retail and Direct Sales Models for Household Water Treatment Products in Cambodia: PATH Partners With Hydrologic and VisionFund to Increase Household Water Treatment
PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing innovative methods to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and safe storage products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This fact sheet summarizes PATH's work in partnership with Hydrologic Social Enterprise and VisionFund to explore the viability of distributing household water treatment devices through retail and direct sales models.
Publication date: June 2012
Region: Asia
- Policy Advocacy at PATH: A Catalyst for Change: Leveraging Resources, Expertise, and Influence to Maximize Health Impacts
This fact sheet describes the vital role PATH’s advocacy is playing to ensure that policies meet the needs of the most vulnerable people and expand access to lifesaving interventions. PATH's advocacy focuses on cross-cutting issues impacting global health as well as specific health areas such as maternal, newborn, and child health; malaria; and HIV/AIDS.
Publication date: May 2013
Region: Global
- Policy Advocacy for Health: A Workshop Curriculum on Policy Advocacy Strategy Development
Policy 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. This guide helps professionals lead workshops based on PATH’s ten-part framework to assess policy advocacy options and plan strategic goals and activities. The accompanying participant workbook includes all worksheets needed, for use during the workshop, to develop an advocacy strategy.
Publication date: February 2013
Region: Global
- Promoting Gender Equity: PATH's Gender, Violence and Rights Strategic Program
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Protecting Child Health for a Promising Future
This fact sheet provides a snapshot of our programs that tackle the leading causes of childhood illness and death: diarrheal disease, pneumonia, and malaria. It profiles our work on new and innovative vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and devices, as well as cross-cutting approaches that lead to healthy behaviors and lasting improvements to health systems.
Publication date: November 2012
Region: Global
- Protecting Children From Diarrheal Disease: PATH Takes a Comprehensive Approach to Combating This Leading Cause of Child Deaths
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work in protecting children from diarrheal disease.
Publication date: September 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's areas of focus fact sheets
- Protecting the Promise of Youth: PATH's Adolescent Health Strategic Program
This brochure describes the approach and activities of PATH's adolescent health program.
Author: E.Simpson
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Provider Payment Reform and Information Technology Systems: A Chicken and Egg Question for National Health Coverage Programs
This paper addresses key implementation questions raised by countries on the journey toward universal health coverage. It also provides concrete data so that policymakers and information technology (IT) professionals alike may understand the ramifications of the provider payment choice on IT systems.
Author: Wilson K, Latko B, Cashin C, et al.
Publication date: September 2013
Region: Global