Resources

Purpose: To facilitate counseling in the well-baby clinic and in the health facility waiting room.Used by Maternal and Child Health nurses, clinical officers, health care providers, and community health volunteers.Approved by the Siaya County Government, Kenya, and the Ministry of Health, Mozambique.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer among women worldwide, with over 2 million new cases occurring in 2018. More than 625,000 women die every year from breast cancer. Although mammography is the gold standard for breast cancer detection, due to lack of resources it is not accessible in many LMIC health systems. The good news is that there is an alternative approach that is able to detect cancer at earlier stages and increase women’s chances of being treated and living longer lives. This fact sheet describes how PATH has developed an integrated model for early detection focused on more efficient use of resources that are currently available in low-resource areas.

Purpose: To facilitate developmental monitoring in the well-baby clinic (as well as other maternal and child health touchpoints) and in the health facility waiting room.Used by Maternal and Child Health nurses, clinical officers, health care providers, and community health volunteers.Approved by the Siaya County Government, Kenya; the Ministry of Health, Mozambique; and the Ministry of Health, Ethiopia.

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is one of the most neglected—and fatal—diseases in the world. Transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, it is usually deadly if not treated. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a concerted effort is underway to ensure the disease is eliminated in the country, which will pave the way for ending the disease worldwide.

Vaccines save lives and prevent diseases such as measles, polio and pneumonia. However, despite their vital potential, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the countries in the African region that still has a significant number of children who are inadequately or unvaccinated in 2017.Less than half of children aged 12 to 23 months receive the necessary vaccines, and one in seven children die of vaccine-preventable diseases by the age of five.Les vaccins sauvent des vies et préviennent de certaines maladies telles que maladies la rougeole, la poliomyélite et la pneumonie. Cependant, malgré leur potentiel vital, la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) fait partie des pays de la région africaine qui compte encore un nombre important d’enfants insuffisamment ou non vaccinés en 2017.Moins de la moitié des enfants âgés de 12 ans à 23 mois reçoivent les vaccins nécessaires, et un enfant sur sept meurt de maladies évitables par la vaccination avant l’âge de cinq ans.