When Mr. Abdul tested positive for both HIV and TB, he worried for his life and his family. Since 2020, the Nigeria SHARP Task Order 3, Chemonics has helped improve HIV and TB services for patients like him in 126 health facilities across six Nigerian states.
This photo essay explores the complex landscape of the Mozambican healthcare system through the experiences of health workers and the mothers they support.
Cynthia Eldridge is formerly project director for Frontier Health Markets Global Technical Assistance platform. She was the CEO & founder at Impact for Health International, a global health consultancy.
As USAID’s flagship private sector health project, Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage envisions a world in which engaged market actors and consumers drive the private and public sectors to deliver equitable, quality care within responsive, resilient ecosystems. In practice, this vision for a healthy market is a government-stewarded health market that optimizes the public and…
This post was originally published by the Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, and is cross posted with permission. When Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) was launched in 2012, it aimed to make high-quality, voluntary family planning (FP) services, information and supplies more available, acceptable and affordable for an additional 120 million women…
Around the world, gender norms influence the ability of individuals, couples, and families to meet their desired family planning needs. Provider bias and power imbalances in client-provider and client-client interactions impact the quality and accessibility of family planning reproductive health service providers who have great potential to be change agents. As they overcome biases and…
Globally, only a small handful of countries are responsible for 95 percent of all malaria cases and deaths. In 2019, five countries made up more than half of the 229 million global case burden, while six countries accounted for 51 percent of the 409,000 malaria deaths. That same year, Mozambique was on both lists and accounted for…
Carey Walovich is a senior specialist with Chemonics’ Global Health Practice, with more than eight years of experience focusing on maternal health, gender, nutrition, and sexual and reproductive health. Previously, she provided technical support across Africa and Southeast Asia with the Fistula Foundation, U.S. End FGM/C Network, and icddr,b. She has conducted interventions for maternal…
Flourishing research and innovation systems spur inclusive economic growth and development. The Research and Information Systems in Africa (RISA) Fund is a multi-country project, funded by the UK, through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), to support research and innovation systems strengthening in Africa. RISA supports and strengthens research and innovation systems in six…
Chemonics, in partnership with the Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) Group, is proud to launch the inaugural Global Health Supply Chain Research Challenge. Through this challenge, we will provide seed research grants of up to $10,000 to the authors of the top research submission(s). We are seeking proposals that evaluate and analyze the root cause of challenges in global health supply chains and…
Chemonics is pleased to announce the award and launch of the USAID-funded Central-Level Health Systems Strengthening project in Senegal. The project will support Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action to make meaningful, sustainable improvements to the country’s health system. The five-year, $19.9 million project will enable national-level stakeholders to participate in improving accountability and…
Noor is a young woman studying to become a nurse in Lahore, Pakistan. She will get married in two months, but she still has a year and a half of school before graduating as a nurse and wants to wait until after that to have a family. Today, she is visiting a health facility to…