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In Sindh province, overall immunization coverage is 29% while coverage in districts varies from 10% to 68.5% in Kashmore and Jamshoro districts, respectively (Sindh Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF 2015, 228). Sindh houses some of Pakistan's largest slums with Karachi city having the highest number of unvaccinated children in the world, followed by Lahore, before…
JSI has completed a state-level supply chain assessment in Maharashtra state, India, with the goal of providing models that enable stakeholders in Maharashtra and other states to improve the reliability of supply of hypertension medications. JSI conducted the detailed supply chain assessment of essential medicines in Maharashtra, focusing on four districts (Bhandara, Satara, Sindhudurg, and…
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance established its Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP) in 2015 as part of a strategy to strengthen vaccine supply chains and achieve better immunization equity and coverage. JSI conducted a prospective evaluation on CCEOP to assess its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, outcomes, and sustainability of the investment. JSI’s research gave Gavi better…
The Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Integration Activity in Madagascar is a one-year project implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute Inc. under the USAID Community Capacity for Health Program, locally known as Mahefa Miaraka with support from Advancing Partners and Communities. The PHE Integration Activity is based on the concept that integrated PHE programs…
The World Bank estimates that in some countries as many as half of textbooks are not received by beneficiaries. JSI and World Education, Inc. are implementing The Results Based Financing to Enhance Book Distribution Project in Cambodia to strengthen the book supply chain to ensure children in early grade classrooms have the books they need…
UNFPA plays an essential leadership role in contraceptive security. Working at the global and country levels, UNFPA supports the delivery of contraceptives and lifesaving maternal health supplies to ensure availability and choice of quality family planning and reproductive health commodities available when and wherever they are needed. But these goals are hindered by suboptimal supply…
Working with the Ministry of Health and local district governments, JSI led the USAID-funded Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services-North, Lango (USAID RHITES-N, Lango) project to strengthen the health system in the Lango sub-region of Uganda to improve access and availability of quality health services for individuals and their families, reaching over 2 million people….
JSI has been awarded a short term project from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The objective of this assignment is to conduct a baseline survey to measure availability of medicines and diagnostic services using standard WHO (SARA) approach, in collaboration with national stakeholders. JSI will propose a statistically relevant health facility…
Feed the Future Cultivating Nutrition (locally known as Kawolor) is an activity funded by USAID/Senegal as part of its contribution to the Senegalese Government’s strategy in the fight malnutrition, food insecurity and poverty. Kawolor is inspired by lessons learned from two previous USAID activities—USAID Yaajeende and USAID SPRING. Kawolor aims to curb malnutrition by empowering organizations and…
The USAID Integrated Health Systems Strengthening and Service Delivery (IHSS-SD) Activity is improving disease surveillance and response systems across Pakistan to better detect and respond to TB and emerging infectious disease outbreaks and strengthen global health security. In partnership with the Government of Pakistan, the Activity is working at the national, provincial, and district…