JHPIEGO, an international health affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University, has received several awards totaling more than $2.2 million to strengthen maternal and newborn health services in Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal, and to evaluate the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's HIV Medics program in Uganda and Zambia.
The JHPIEGO led ACCESS Program has received a three year, $1.8 million award to assist the Cambodian Ministry of Health and key local stakeholders in improving availability of and access to high-quality, sustainable maternal and newborn health services. Under this U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded award, the areas in which ACCESS (Access to Clinical and Community Maternal, Neonatal and Women's Health Services Program) will contribute are: policy issues, including recruitment, deployment and retention of midwives; expansion of high-priority health interventions to national scale; training of midwives in essential and emergency obstetrical and newborn care (life-saving skills); education for midwifery students, including the development of learning materials; prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in facilities and in the community; and integration of essential newborn care with existing services.
The Wallace Global Fund has awarded JHPIEGO $245,000 over two years to implement "Expanding Reproductive Healthcare in African Informal Settlements." The program aims to increase access to safe, quality reproductive health for women in living in the slum urban settlements of Korogocho and Viwandani in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Nick Simons Institute (NSI) has awarded JHPIEGO $137,218 to provide technical assistance to improve health care in rural areas of Nepal. JHPIEGO will help strengthen provider performance through competency-based clinical training for skilled birth attendants and health assistants. JHPIEGO will upgrade at least one NSI partner hospital to function as a training site for skilled birth attendants, and will also develop a health assistant practicum and related clinical training and performance improvement activities.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has awarded JHPIEGO $69,510 to evaluate its HIV Medics program in Uganda and Zambia. Established in 2004, the Medics program trains lay people through a 12-week intensive program to become "treatment extenders."
This new cadre provides support to providers, including basic triage and assistance in the provision of antiretroviral therapy. JHPIEGO will provide technical assistance to document the progress of AHF's program in these two countries, and identify factors that promote or hinder the effective integration of the new cadre with health care delivery systems.
"JHPIEGO is fortunate to be able to support such important issues that face women and families in low-resource settings around the world. These funds will help us continue our efforts to equip health care providers in these countries as they work to save and improve the lives of thousands of women and children," says Dr. Leslie Mancuso, President and CEO of JHPIEGO.
About JHPIEGO
JHPIEGO (pronounced "JA-PIE-GO"), an international health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, builds global and local partnerships to enhance the quality of health services for women and families. JHPIEGO's focus is on training and support for health care providers - including doctors, nurses, midwives and health educators - working in limited-resource settings throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean.
JHPIEGO has Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS, and Family Planning and Reproductive Health to strengthen services to women and families in more than 50 countries around the world. jhpiego
About The Wallace Global Fund
The goal of the Wallace Global Fund is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends. wgf
About ACCESS
The ACCESS Program is the U.S. Agency for International Development's global program to improve maternal and newborn health. The ACCESS Program works to expand coverage, access and use of key maternal and newborn health services across a continuum of care from the household to the hospital - with the aim of making quality health services accessible for women and newborns.
About Nick Simons Institute
Nick Simons Institute is a network of hospital and community projects that share a common vision for improving health care in the rural areas of Nepal. Initially this network will include Patan Hospital, Tansen Mission Hospital, Okhaldhunga Hospital, Lamjung Hospital, Rukum Living River Hospital and Dandeldhura TEAM Hospital - along with several other hospitals still to be negotiated, and their associated community projects.
About the AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Based in Los Angeles, AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the nation's largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care. It offers cutting-edge medicine and advocacy, regardless of ability to pay, to more than 27,000 people in the United States, Africa, Central America and Asia. aidshealth
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