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Sep 14 2011

Spotlight on M&E: Operation ASHA

Performance monitoring through the Electronic Medical Record, MIT partnership

CHMI has recently announced the launch of its Reported Results initiative – an effort to capture performance and impact information from programs profiled in our database.

Posted by John Hetherington

May 26 2011

How to engage private sector doctors to deliver high quality and affordable priority care services

Making an impact with social franchising in Asia's second poorest state, where 80% of health transactions take place in the private sector

In 2010, the Population Services International (PSI) program, Sun Quality Health (SQH), and its sister network of village health workers, Sun Primary Health, performed more than 2.1 million client consultations in Myanmar.

Posted by Gina Lagomarsino

Mar 29 2011

Designing a Better Prize

Part 2: Finding potential solvers through prizes for point-of-care diagnostics

*This is the second in a two-part series; The report, Prizes for Global Health Technologies, released today, can be downloaded here.

Posted by Trevor Lewis

Nov 15 2010

Operation ASHA: Going the “Last Mile”

Treating TB in India’s Slums

OpASHA counselors holding a "before" and "after" showing that a patient was cured of TB after completing her regimen. Photo by Andre Fanthome.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that health authorities around the world must do more to fight tuberculosis, a disease that killed an estimated 1.7 million people last year. As the search begins for new and innovative ways to fight this disease, Operation ASHA (OpASHA), which operates TB centers in the slums of India, will undoubtedly stand out as a program worthy of replication.

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