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AIDSTAR Plus strengthened the ability of the Honduran Ministry of Health (MOH) to operationalize the country’s National Strategy for Comprehensive Care of STI/HIV/AIDS at both the central and regional levels. Launched in 2011, the Strategy sets out a comprehensive approach, at all levels of care, for preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV,…
Live, Learn & Play: Sustainable, Scalable Basketball for Youth Development (LLP) was a public-private partnership between USAID and the National Basketball Association that trained young people between the ages of 13 and 18 in leadership, gender awareness, and equality, as well as community participation through basketball. JSI implemented LLP in Senegal, engaging 1,595 youth and…
The Maternal and Child Survival Program was a global USAID Cooperative Agreement that supports high-impact health interventions with a focus on 24 high-priority countries with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. The Program focused on ensuring that all women, newborns, and children most in need have equitable access…
The AIDSFree (Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation) Project improved the quality and effectiveness of high-impact, evidence-based HIV interventions—such as HIV testing, treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, voluntary medical male circumcision, and condom promotion—to meet local epidemic control objectives in 14 sub-Saharan nations. In line with the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS…
Mozambique continues to be devastated by HIV and AIDS with the second highest rate of new HIV infections in the world. According to the latest estimates from UNAIDS, the rate of new HIV infections in Mozambique fell by more than 25% between 2001 and 2009. More than 200,000 people living with HIV in Mozambique were…
Vana Bantwana supported the Government of Zimbabwe’s efforts to improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and those affected by HIV and AIDS. To ensure that communities continue effective programming beyond the life of the program, JSI built the capacity of a cadre of national and community-based civil society organizations to implement and…
United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 aim to reduce the under-five child mortality rate and the maternal ratio by 2015. The Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) strategy was developed by the Government of India to accelerate progress toward these goals and focus more attention on key high impact interventions…
The Integrated Family Health Program (IFHP Plus) supported USAID/Ethiopia's strategic objective of investing in people and was an extension of the original IFHP program. Working across the four largest and most populous regions (Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, SNNP) in Ethiopia, IFHP Plus, USAID’s flagship bilateral family and community health program, provided an integrated package of services…
On January 30, 2012, the London Declaration, a new, coordinated effort to accelerate progress towards eliminating or controlling ten neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the end of the decade, was announced. The declaration was signed by 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K., and U.A.E. governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and…
14 years of civil unrest and infrastructural devastation left Liberia with a significant human resource and service delivery capacity gap. Launched by H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2009, the President’s Young Professionals Program (PYPP) addressed this capacity gap by recruiting, training, and preparing promising and talented Liberian college graduates for a future in public…