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PATH leads the Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition project (MQSUN), funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. MQSUN provides technical expertise on the design and implementation of nutrition programs, drawing on the best available evidence. This fact sheet provides highlights on MQSUN's work around the globe.

In Kenya, a lack of workplace policies for HIV/AIDS among non-military uniformed service agencies meant that those organizations were unable to effectively provide HIV/AIDS services to affected officers. This, in turn, threatened the government’s ability to provide national security and deliver essential services. From 2008-2013, PATH, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention effectively advocated with key commanders and other decision makers within four agencies to develop and implement workplace HIV/AIDS policies that allowed them to improve their response to officers coping with the impacts of the epidemic.

Diarrhea is a major cause of child death in both Cambodia and Vietnam, but for years, outdated national policies kept medicines from reaching caretakers and children suffering from diarrhea. In response, PATH led efforts in Cambodia and Vietnam to join health advocates together to assemble evidence, identify key health decision makers, and convince the ministries of health to prioritize policy changes to improve access to medicines that could reduce the toll of diarrhea.

While Zambia has made great strides in reducing deaths of children under five, the country's neonatal mortality rate has remained too high. Concerned about this lack of progress, PATH convened civil society advocates for a workshop focused on child health in late 2011. This group—which included Save the Children, the Pediatric Association of Zambia, the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, University Teaching Hospital, the Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research/Boston University, World Vision International, and Clinton Health Access Initiative— identified the absence of newborn-focused policies and strategies at the national level as a key contributor to this lack of progress. Over a three-year period, the coalition worked side-by-side with government officials to increase commitment to improving newborn health and institute a series of targeted newborn health policies, including a Newborn Health Care Scale Up Framework, revised Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) standards that included neonatal guidelines, and a set of Essential Newborn Care (ENC) Guidelines that could translate into specific action to save newborns’ lives.

This fact sheet provides an overview of rotavirus disease and vaccines in Senegal. It includes information about the tremendous burden of rotavirus diarrhea in Senegalese children, rotavirus diarrhea treatment and prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines.