This guide provides an overview of water-filter products within PATH's Springboard Initiative ecosystem that feature the PATH-developed C1 Common Interface—a common-connection point and platform solution to promote product interchangeability, standardization, and market efficiency. Cartridges from one manufacturer can be used in water filters from another. This guide is primarily intended for professionals who seek balanced, introductory-level information on available water-filter products appropriate for low- and/or lower-middle income consumers in developing countries. It is not comprehensive and covers only products with the C1 Common Interface. The information presented is appropriate for commercial, public-sector, or nonprofit organizations interested in wholesale quantities.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

Even the most effective health products can’t improve health or save lives if they don’t reach the people who need them. That’s why markets matter. This infographic outlines all the players involved in creating a healthy market to make products available to individuals who can use them to live healthy, productive lives.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

Vaccines are one of the most powerful, lifesaving, and cost-eff­ective health tools. Yet today one in five children around the world are not fully immunized with even the most basic vaccines. By 2020, we can bring the full power of immunization to all people. This infographic outlines the vital role the US government plays in making this vision a reality.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: North America and Europe, Global

This fact sheet describes a new ecosystem of interchangeable water-filter products from a range of companies based on the PATH-developed C1 Common Interface—a simple, common-connection point and platform solution designed to work with different filters and different devices.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

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 fact sheet helps maternal health advocates understand why markets matter—and how they can help advocate to strengthen them.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: 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 and Novo Nordisk are collaborating on the No Empty Shelves: Diabetes Supplies, There When Needed project. This case study describes our corporate partnership, which aims to raise awareness of noncommunicable diseases and improve understanding of the barriers that limit access to drugs and technologies for diabetes in low-resource settings.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

This infographic illustrates the key achievements of the project to establish and validate a manufacturing process to produce semisynthetic artemisinin (ssART) at industrial scale and commercialize ssART. Production of ssART aims to supplement a historically volatile botanical supply chain, strengthening the artemisinin market and ensuring that the global need for artemisinin-based combination therapies can be met, thus supporting current worldwide malaria control measures and strategies for malaria elimination.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

PATH’s Center for Malaria Control and Elimination is building on our unparalleled portfolio of malaria tools and projects, encompassing a broad collection of competencies and expertise, to advance efforts toward elimination, and ultimately eradication, of both P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

This fact sheet describes PATH’s work in maternal immunization—an approach of vaccinating during pregnancy to protect mother and baby. It covers work across vaccine projects targeting respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, and pertussis—infections that disproportionately threaten mothers and/or newborns.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

This tool is a national-level quantification tool for basic neonatal resuscitation commodities, although it can be helpful for the district and facility level. It is designed only to provide estimates of product quantities for planning and cost simulations and is not intended for planning detailed distribution. The format of the tool includes simple design elements, such as graphics and navigation arrows, to guide users through the tool.

Publication date: April 2016

Region: Global

The BID Initiative is grounded in the belief that better data plus better decisions will lead to better health outcomes. The infographic depicts the initiative’s approach through Products, Policies & Practices, People, and Packaging.

Publication date: February 2016

Region: Global

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 issue of Outlook establishes menstrual health as a sexual and reproductive health and rights issue; presents the obstacles to and the consequences of not promoting and protecting menstrual health; and highlights opportunities to improve menstrual health in low-resource settings.

Publication date: February 2016

Region: Global

Part of series: Outlook

This two-page issue brief provides important background on why policymakers and global health leaders must invest in health supply chains to help close the immunization gap, as well as provides resources on action steps on how to do so.

Publication date: February 2016

Region: 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

This four-page brochure highlights how PATH catalyzes local innovation to improve health and save lives in India. Key focus areas include tuberculosis, nutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and novel methods to change health behaviors.

Publication date: January 2016

Region: Global

Part of series: Country brochures

PATH has drawn on its global experience from our total market approach (TMA) work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Vietnam to produce a TMA planning guide to increase access to family planning. The guide and toolkit, produced by The Evidence Project, contain practical information and specific tools to help organizations and other planners conduct a landscape assessment, the first phase in developing a TMA.

Publication date: January 2016

Region: Global

This pilot used data collected in Uganda to report on the root causes of cold chain equipment failure. The resulting information may be used to inform global policy, equipment design, and country-level cold chain improvements.

Publication date: January 2016

Region: Global

As part of PATH’s work in vaccine and pharmaceutical supply systems and equipment, this report summarizes experiments to develop a visual inspection method for determining whether water-packs are frozen, partially frozen, or unfrozen when removed from a freezer for use in vaccine carriers. The report also examines water-pack temperature and expansion during freezing.

Publication date: January 2016

Region: Global