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This brief outlines key takeaways from the advocacy for health promotion meeting that took place 31 March-April 3, 2021 in Kwilu province, DRC, to explore strategies for improving local health financing. Participants from the provincial assembly, government, Provincial Health Division, and civil society came together to improve the health and wellbeing of Kwilu’s population through perpetuating the gains of health advocacy.The text is available in both English and French.Ce dossier concerne la réunion de plaidoyer pour la promotion de la santé a eu lieu du 31 mars au 3 Avril 2021 afin d’explorer les stratégies pour améliorer le financement dans le secteur de la santé dans la province Kwilu, République Démocratique du Congo. Les participants venus de l’assemblée provinciale, du gouvernement provincial, de la Division Provinciale de la Santé et de la société civile se sont réunis pour améliorer la santé et le bien-être de la population du Kwilu en perpétuant les acquis du plaidoyer pour la santé.Le texte est disponible en français et en anglais.

With the objective to provide quick, high-quality, and accessible COVID-19 testing, PATH implemented a decentralized rapid diagnostic system using Abbott ID NOW and Panbio RDT in Sangamner in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra. This document outlines the course of the intervention from implementation to impact.

For more than 15 years, the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has partnered with PATH to improve public health capacity. This brief highlights a few examples of how the Murdock Trust has supported PATH’s in-house product development shop, helped strengthen digital health capabilities and even furthered the Primary Health Care (PHC) agenda. PATH is grateful for this long-standing partnership and the important public health work that it enables.

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 eight government-owned health facilities in Zambia. The purpose of this survey was to quantify existing oxygen delivery and production equipment, consumables for administering oxygen therapy, bed capacity, and facility infrastructure characteristics that are relevant to providing respiratory care. The results indicated that all assessed institutions need urgent procurement of medical equipment for oxygen delivery, monitoring devices to support safe oxygen administration to patients, and accompanying consumables. Also, across all facilities there is insufficient staff trained to adequately manage COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory care.This report summarizes observations from the collected data and is intended to help global and national stakeholders understand COVID-19 treatment capacity in Zambia.

This document provides a historical overview and current status of technologies that support injection safety such as autodisable (AD) syringes, reuse prevention syringes (RUP), sharps injury prevention (SIP) syringes, disposable-syringe jet injectors, and compact prefilled autodisable (CPAD). It also documents the global progress over the past two decades that have led to a significant reduction in bloodborne pathogen transmission and the continued efforts needed to sustain the gains that have been made and to eliminate disease transmission from needlestick injuries and misuse of syringes.