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Family planning is recognized as the second-best return on investment, after education, among all targets set under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goal of “every pregnancy a planned pregnancy” is fundamental to progress in health and economic development. To tackle issues of access, continuity of use, and exercise of choice in family planning options, PATH is working to strengthen the supply chain of FP commodities. We designed and implemented initiatives to strengthen the supply chain systems in 8 states in India. Here's an overview of these interventions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for oxygen and other respiratory care supplies and equipment around the globe.In response, PATH conducted a biomedical equipment survey in 692 health facilities across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The purpose of the survey was to quantify the existing oxygen production and delivery equipment, consumables for administering oxygen therapy, bed capacity, and facility infrastructure that are relevant to providing respiratory care. Survey results suggest an overall scarcity of critical equipment and unequal distribution across surveyed facilities in the DRC.This report summarizes observations from the collected data and is intended to help global and national stakeholders understand COVID-19 treatment capacity in DRC.

PATH's Primary Health Care Strategy for India highlights our vision of equitable access to high-performing primary health care for all aspects of reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health and for the most prevalent communicable, non-communicable and occupational diseases.

PATH India with its partners embarked on a global search for innovators and entrepreneurs in the healthcare sector with the ‘PHC Tech Challenge’. We aim to contribute to the success of comprehensive primary health care program by bringing together all the relevant stakeholders to advance efforts towards improving quality, access, and affordability of primary healthcare and introducing transformative solutions/innovations that could be demonstrated and scaled.The PHC Tech Challenge was rolled out with the objective of providing a platform that brings together promising MedTech, digital health and cold chain innovations from all across the globe for sharing with key stakeholders.Our vision through this challenge is to accelerate deployment of near-ready solutions in public health settings to improve access to primary health care in India and in other low and middle-income countries.

The gender-based violence (GBV) project implemented by PATH assessed the needs of women migrant workers through consultations with peer educators and developed messages to increase awareness of GBV in the migrant community. The messages were disseminated through different digital platforms. This increased awareness and facilitated discussions among the network of over 10,000 migrant factory workers. The different trainings on SRHR and GBV increased knowledge on legal regulations/laws that prevent women and girls from harassment. This brief shares the responses of the peer educators who received the trainings.