Projects

Supported the Government of Nigeria to expand access to and improve the quality of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services and to build sustainable capacity in those areas at primary and secondary facilities in Enugu and Ebonyi States. By supporting mobilization of the communities served by these facilities, HACCI fostered local ownership of the delivery...

Overview and Objectives Worked with the Ministry of Health, Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care, to improve the quality and use of HIV prevention and care services and strengthen the delivery of routine HIV-testing strategies. The project evaluated existing programs and provided support to improve diagnosis and treatment services for multi-drug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis....

Improved the nutritional and health status of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS by integrated nutrition into HIV/AIDS services at the health facility and community levels. The project’s primary target groups are HIV-positive adults, pregnant and lactating women, and orphans and vulnerable children...

Overview and Objectives The Strengthening Community Safety Nets Project (SCSN), managed by ChildFund International with partners URC and Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (now known as Children Believe), promoted the healthy child development of 50,000 children and assisting 8500 primary and secondary caregivers in the Addis Ababa and Oromia regions through comprehensive, family-centered, and child-focused care and support services....

Provided technical assistance to adapt URC’s infant and young child feeding (IYCF) materials to the Malawian context. The project provided expertise in developing stakeholder consensus on adaptations, provision of technical content recommendations and adaptation of images, text, and messages. URC also worked with UNICEF/New York and Nutritional Policy and Practice, LLP, to develop a generic...

HCI directly examined how neglected health care processes function and developed practical ways to help health workers and managers improve them. HCI provided global technical leadership and expertise to improve health care delivery and health workforce capacity and performance in USAID-assisted countries...

Researched potential demand for diagnostics of high morbidity and mortality diseases—HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, and acute lower respiratory illness—in several developing countries. The research examined issues surrounding the use of diagnostic tests: consumer willingness to use and pay for them, health care providers and program managers’ perceptions of their effectiveness, and factors...

Conducted research in Tanzania to investigate the feasibility of using flash-heating, a pasteurization technique, to kill HIV in breast milk without reducing the milk’s protective qualities. The study also investigated whether female community health workers could take the place of overburdened clinic staff to provide training to HIV-positive mothers who choose to use this new...

Overview and Objectives URC strengthened Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) in Latin America, southern Africa, and the Andean and Caribbean regions by improving their ability to manage country programs and provide oversight of local organizations that received funding. The technical assistance focused on coordination, communication, conflict of interest, leadership, developing partnerships, data quality management, monitoring and...

The Challenge PISAF sought to improve the health status of the Beninese through collaboration with the Benin Ministry of Health Directorate for Maternal and Child Health (DSME), non-governmental organizations, government agencies, donors, other USAID projects, communities, and the private sector. The project’s activities supported the Government’s national policies and strategies and USAID’s health objective: to...