Projects

USAID/Uganda uses an integrated health system strengthening approach for primary health care, in line with Uganda’s Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan. RHITES-N, Acholi is one of five USAID/Uganda activities focused on comprehensive regional health and HIV/AIDS programs...

The Challenge In 2012, the world cancer research fund international estimated that lung cancer accounted for 13% of 14.1 million cancer cases globally. Although lung cancer risk factors are present in the Kingdom of Eswatini and cancers are the sixth main cause of death nationally, the prevalence of lung cancer is still unknown. From anecdotal...

This five-year project has a central goal of increasing TB case detection and treatment success to 90% of all cases to end the TB epidemic in Uganda. It provides technical assistance to the Uganda Ministry of Health and the National TB and Leprosy Program (NTLP) and strengthens the health systems for TB service delivery...

[pods]{@ID,get_the_post_thumbnail_caption}[/pods] The Challenge Focus on addressing the danger to global health security posed by the risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases. Overview and Objectives From 2017 to 2019, URC, as a subcontractor to Jacobs, supported implementation of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in Vietnam. URC provided in-country support to...

The Strengthening Clinical Services for People Living with HIV in Central America under PEPFAR five-year cooperative agreement aims to improve the clinical skills of health care providers to care and treat people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Central America region. URC is working to achieve this goal through a combination of initial country workshops,...

This project aimed to improve health services for Albanian citizens by focusing on corruption and encouraging cooperation among selected independent government institutions, civil society organizations, and media to encourage more responsible governance in the health sector...

The Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD) Project is a flexible global implementation science (IS) partnership mechanism that responds to emerging USAID health and development priorities...

CMEP builds on URC’s 20-year legacy of working with the Ministry of Health and CNM to eliminate malaria and control the spread of drug-resistant malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion...

Conducted two studies on the effects of results-based financing (RBF) on immunization coverage in Benin, working closely with the GAVI Alliance and Benin’s Ministry of Health (MOH)/National Directorate for the Expanded Program on Immunization and Primary Health Care. The studies use a mixed-methods approach to understand how the RBF scheme is incentivizing immunization-related activities, the...

USAID RHITES-EC is supporting Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) to improve regional health outcomes by increasing the utilization of high-quality health care services within 12 districts in East Central Uganda...