JSI🇪🇹IPHCSD team published findings in @PLOSOne on their locally led approach to improve care coordination&relational linakges in #primaryhealth.The networks of care approach(NOC)is resulting in dramatic improvements to the lives of women and children.
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Achieving sustainable improvements in primary health care service delivery hinges on community involvement and local ownership. Community Score Card (CSC), a tool that gives a voice to local communities,enabling them to provide feedback & suggest improvements,🧵
making them active partners in their health care. JSI's Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) project has implemented the CSC tool as part of its interventions to enhance health care service delivery. Read more👇
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Today, at JSI/L10K office, we have conducted an insightful discussion on preventing gender-based violence against women and girls in recognition of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
Women must be at the center of gender-based violence prevention efforts while men need to join such efforts as allies.Gender transformative interventions that engage men in thoughtful ways can be highly effective. Men have a pivotal role to play in breaking the cycle of violence.
Respect for the choices,desires,rights & dignity of Gender Based Violence(GBV)survivors should be the foundation of all decisions and activities of support. Regardless of their age,sex,color,marital status,or other characterstics,survivors must be treated fairly and equally.
Today, the national launch of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence in Ethiopia took place in Dire Dawa under the theme "Violence against Women is Violence against me; I won't keep quiet "
Today, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health of Ethiopia (MOH) launched vaccination of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for girls 9-14 years old in an event held at Tulu Dimtu Primary School in Sheger City.
In a campaign that runs for about a week from November 18, 2024, MOH with partners aim to vaccinate more than 8 million girls nationally.
Yesterday, a delegation led by Mrs. Frehiwot Abebe; State Minister of Health, visited health facilities supported by JSI’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) funded Electronic Community Health Information System(eCHIS) project. @dessalewemaway
Happening now: Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) project learning exchange session to share and review progress and key learnings on Health Extension Program (HEP) optimization implementation #primaryhealth #communityhealth
JSI HQ Technical director for Maternal and Newborn Health,Dr Tamar Chitashvili, has been on a learning visit to JSI🇪🇹 project intervention sites since last week. In Modjo,Dr Tamar visited Lume Woreda health office, Shera Dibandiba Health Post&Biyo Health Center🧵 @dessalewemaway
As part of her learning visit, Dr Tamar facilitated a two days Training of Trainers (ToT) on Fundamentals in Quality Improvement, organized by JSI/L10K’s Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) and Quality Health Activity (QHA) projects.
❗️NEW PAPER by our own Gizachew Tadele, Nebreed Fesseha, and colleagues: Improving possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI) management in young infants when referral is not feasible: lessons from embedded implementation research in Ethiopia & Kenya🧵
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*⃣Strategies to overcome barriers involved engaging community health workers, training healthcare staff, implementing COVID19 safety measures, and advocating for policy integration of PSBI management.























