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Journal Article | English | Malawi | 2012
Scaling up iCCM: Malawi Update (Inter_Agency, 2012)
This inter-agency journal article discusses how Malawi is considered to be on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 as a result of the scaling-up of integrated community case management (iCCM) in the country.
Scaling up iCCM: Malawi Update (Inter_Agency, 2012)1.62 MB
Cameroon | 2012
CCM Impact, Lessons Learned: Cameroon, DRC, Malawi, and Mali - (PSI, 2012)
This brief paper entails the case community management (CCM) lessons learned from a multi-country PSI program.
CCM Impact, Lessons Learned: Cameroon, DRC, Malawi, and Mali - (PSI, 2012)491.86 KB
Report | 2012
CCM Quantification Guide - (SC4CCM, 2012)
This report provides specific instructions for using methods to forecast requirements for age-appropriate community case management (CCM) medicines and products. The instructions include guidance on input data and assumptions required for pediatric CCM program forecasts.
CCM Quantification Guide - (SC4CCM, 2012)783.62 KB
Journal Article | Ethiopia | 2012
Factors Affecting Availability of Essential Medicines: Ethiopia, Malawi, and Rwanda - (JSI, 2012)
This article examines the factors that affect the availability of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Rwanda.
Factors Affecting Availability of Essential Medicines: Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda - (JSI, 2012)689.8 KB
Report | 2012
Getting Products to People: Integrated Supply Chain Management for Public Health - (JSI, 2012)
This document details John Snow, Inc.'s (JSI) framework for an integrated supply chain management in public health.
Getting Products to People: Integrated Supply Chain Management for Public Health - (JSI, 2012)2.63 MB
Tool | English | 2012
Pathway to Supply Chain Sustainability: Planning Tool - (SC4CCM, 2012)
This report examines ways to scale and institutionalize supply chain innovations.
Pathway to Supply Chain Sustainability: Planning Tool - (SC4CCM, 2012)623.56 KB
Report | 2012
Performance-based Incentives to Strengthen PHSCs: Options Guide - (USAID, 2012)
This USAID-commissioned report examines the use of performance-based incentives to strengthen public health supply chains (PHSCs).
Performance-based Incentives to Strengthen PHSCs: Options Guide - (USAID, 2012)1.86 MB
Report | Tanzania | 2012
Rapid SMS and Essential Medicines: Tanzania and Malawi - (WHO, 2012)
Brief report shows how at pre-scheduled time intervals, facility/community users send text messages (SMSs) with key data to a toll-free short code using their personal mobile phones. Data is used to calculate resupply quantities, which are sent via SMS to resupply facilities to enable prepacking of orders.
Rapid SMS and Essential Medicines: Tanzania and Malawi - (WHO, 2012)73.3 KB
Tool | English | 2012
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Survey CHW Interview - (UNICEF/ LSTM, 2012)
Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) community health worker (CHW) questionnaire from UNICEF and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Survey CHW Interview - (UNICEF/ LSTM, 2012)610.63 KB
Tool | English | 2012
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Household Survey Child with Pneumonia - (UNICEF/ LSTM, 2012)
Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) household survey child with pneumonia form from UNICEF and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Household Survey Child with Pneumonia - (UNICEF/ LSTM, 2012)677.33 KB
Tool | English | 2012
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Household Survey Child with Fever - (UNICEF, LSTM, 2012)
Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) household survey child with fever form from UNICEF and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Household Survey Child with Fever - (UNICEF, LSTM, 2012)686.84 KB
Tool | English | 2012
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Household Survey Child with Diarrhea - (UNICEF/LSTM, 2012)
Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) household survey child with diarrhea form from UNICEF and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Rapid Survey Tool: LQAS Household Survey Child with Diarrhea - (UNICEF/LSTM, 2012)700.74 KB
Tool | English | Malawi | 2012
Rapid Survey Tool: HSA Validation Questionnaire, Malawi - (JHU, 2012)
Health surveillance assistants (HSA) validation questionnaire from Johns Hopkins University.
Rapid Survey Tool HSA Validation Questionnaire: Malawi - (JHU, 2012)84.89 KB
Malawi | 2012
Rapid Survey Tool: HSA Questionnaire Endline Survey, Malawi - (Save the Children, 2012)
Questionnaire survey for health surveillance assistants (HSAs) in Malawi from Save the Children.
Rapid Survey Tool: HSA Questionnaire Endline Survey, Malawi - (Save the Children, 2012)199.42 KB
Report | Malawi | 2012
Rapid Data Quality Assessment for iCCM Protocol - (JHU, MOH Malawi, & Save the Children, 2012)
Working document on implementation research embedded in integrated community case management (iCCM).
Rapid Data Quality Assessment for iCCM Protocol - (JHU, MOH Malawi, & Save the Children, 2012)173.38 KB
Ghana | 2012
Illustrative Indicators for LQAS: Household Surveys Ghana Example - (UNICEF/LSTM, 2012)
Illustrative indicators for lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS).
Illustrative Indicators for LQAS: Household Surveys Ghana Example - (UNICEF/LSTM, 2012)98.32 KB
Report | 2012
DIVA Guidebook: Strengthening District Management for Results with Equity - (UNICEF/MSH, 2012)
This guidebook is UNICEF’s approach to strengthening district health systems, designed to involve all levels of the health system. This ready reference explains how UNICEF’s diagnose, intervene, verify, & adjust (DIVA) approach aims to achieve better maternal and child health outcomes at the district level through an analytical process that improves district level management skills for human resources, finances, information, supply, and service organization.
DIVA Guidebook: Strengthening District Management for Results with Equity - (UNICEF/MSH, 2012)2.01 MB
Report | Malawi | 2012
Data Analysis and Use Training Guidelines: Malawi - (USAID, MOH Malawi, JHU, 2012)
USAID-commissioned report on basic data analysis and interpretation for health programs.
Data Analysis and Use Training Guidelines: Malawi - (USAID, MOH Malawi, JHU, 2012)510.75 KB
Report | Uganda | 2012
VHT Refresher Training Workbook: Uganda - (Malaria Consortium, 2012)
Refresher training workbook for village health teams (VHTs) who implement integrated community case management.
VHT Refresher Training Workbook: Uganda - (Malaria Consortium, 2012)2.69 MB
2012
Supervision Checklist for CHWs Instructions - (IRC, 2012)
Supervision Checklist for community health workers (CHWs) instructions.
Supervision Checklist for CHWs Instructions - (IRC, 2012)355.56 KB