We'll keep you up to date on Partners In Health's work bringing hope and health care to some of the world's poorest, hardest-to-reach communities.
By Dr. Jean Claude Mugunga, Adarsh Shah, Dr. Joia Mukherjee
Partners In Health's UHC Monitoring and Planning Tool is intended to help a diverse group of users plan comprehensive health care delivery, and monitor service coverage by linking inputs—such as staff, supplies, and infrastructure—with the burden of disease, to support the delivery of care.
By Dr. Jean Claude Mugunga, Adarsh Shah, Dr. Joia Mukherjee
Partners In Health's UHC Monitoring and Planning Tool is intended to help a diverse group of users plan comprehensive health care delivery, and monitor service coverage by linking inputs—such as staff, supplies, and infrastructure—with the burden of disease, to support the delivery of care.
By Dr. Jean Claude Mugunga
The process of engaging in detailed cost analysis related to large-scale health system improvement requires meaningful evaluation of different health-strengthening efforts. Effective costing approaches are critical to inform scale-up plans and to improve care globally.
By Anatole Manzi, Catherine Kirk, Lisa R. Hirschhorn
This guideline describes how to implement Mentorship and Enhanced Supervision for Health Care and Quality Improvement, or MESH-QI, programs to improve quality of care, data collection, on-site education and clinical mentoring, as a model for Health Systems Strengthening.<
This toolkit outlines the integrated care system that Partners In Health (PIH) is using in Neno District, Malawi, to combine resources for the screening, treatment and follow-up care of HIV and NCD patients.
By Catherine M. Kirk, Chris Sweeney, Neil Gupta, Peter C. Drobac, and Anatole Manzi
Nurse mentors with advanced training are connected to nurses at rural health centers to improve the quality of care for patients.
By Salmaan Keshavjee, Askar Yedilbayev, Chris Sweeney
How "Sputnik," a model of patient-centered accompaniment in Tomsk, Russia, delivers daily comprehensive care to TB and MDR-TB patients at greatest risk of defaulting from treatment.
By Rose Leonard Molina and Daniel Palazuelos
Mexico has recently implemented a social insurance program called Seguro Popular. Through ethnographic interviews with impoverished farmers in Chiapas, this article presents an analysis of Seguro Popular from the perspective of underserved beneficiaries.
The goal of this pocket guide, which was funded by USAID through the TB CARE II Project, is to provide practitioners useful information for the clinical management of MDR-TB patients.
This comprehensive curriculum for Household Development Agents (specialized polyvalent community health workers (CHWs)), trained under a World Bank funded pilot, consists of 8 training units: Human Rights, Community Mobilization & Communication, Cholera, Family Planning, Diarrheal Disease, Vaccination, Reproductive Health, and Nutrition. These units contain standard and widely accepted information and protocols that have been adapted for the Haitian context. They are written in Haitian Creole.