Maternal & Child Health

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What Health Workers in Africa Know, What They Have to Work With, and How To Translate That into Quality of Care
Laura Di Giorgio et al.
October 05, 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the quality of health services across many African countries was too low.  In an article that is now forthcoming at BMJ Global Health, we draw on data for more than 20,000 health providers and 8,000 facilities to construct an aggregate measure o...
WORKING PAPERS
An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal and Child Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries
Laura Di Giorgio et al.
October 05, 2020
Our findings highlight the need to boost the knowledge of health care workers to achieve greater care readiness. Training programs have shown mixed results, so systems may need to adopt a combination of competency-based pre-service and in-service training for health care providers (with evaluation t...
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The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship: Aligning Early Childhood Development & Gender Equality Research and Practice
Megan O'Donnell
and
Pamela Jakiela
December 16, 2019
Thanks to many of you who joined us in person and online to hear about the latest research linking ECD and gender equality. For those not able to make it, not to worry! We’ve captured the highlights below.
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Gavi Going Forward: Immunization for Every Child Everywhere?
Amanda Glassman
and
Liesl Schnabel
February 07, 2019
In December 2018, the Gavi Alliance hosted a mid-term review to assess progress towards its core purpose: “reach every child everywhere with vaccines against preventable diseases.” The good news is that there’s been advances on new vaccine introductions, and an estimated 65 million...
CGD NOTES
The Declaration of Alma-Ata at 40: Realizing the Promise of Primary Health Care and Avoiding the Pitfalls in Making Vision Reality
Amanda Glassman et al.
October 24, 2018
In October, world leaders renewed their commitment to Primary Health Care. Now is an opportune time to identify lessons learned and key challenges from the past 40 years, and to acknowledge the work that remains to be done to make vision reality.
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Will the Agenda for Child Survival Survive?
June 19, 2012
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“Stunning Progress” or “Implausible and Invalid”: The Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010?
June 06, 2012
Afghanistan accounted for 15 percent of all U.S. economic assistance allocated in FY2012, amounting to 2 billion dollars. USAID has contributed at least 15 billion in aid to Afghanistan since 2001, with cumulative investments in the health sector at nearly 1 billion. But the impact of these investm...