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StephanieWacker
Program News
A USAID report on Viva Afya clinics found that the network serves as a sustainable model to address the challenge of the private sector providing high quality, affordable health care to the poor.
DKT International released their December Newsletter, which outlined program activities, new technologies and accomplishments.
Magpi completed the second phase of testing electronic data collection at Lunsar ETC (Ebola Treatment Center) in Sierra Leone. The testing found that the phone screen was legible through fogged goggles and easily operable with double gloved fingers. Find more information here.
Village Health Works released a documentary about Deogratias Niyizonkiza, the founder, and how he created the organization.
Resources
Devex reported on the inextricable links between HIV and human rights. The article focuses on the stigma and discrimination of the AIDS epidemic, especially those of already marginalized populations.
SHOPS released a report on Private Health Sector Costing Results. It provides an overview of facility-level costs for general outpatient, inpatient, and HIV-specific health services.
Check out Vaccine Facts and Policy, which provides a comprehensive database of immunization data across the United States.
The Guardian reported on 11 ways public and private sectors can work together to improve healthcare. The article summarized interviews with a panel of experts on how government, NGOs, and corporations can collaborate to deliver healthcare in developing countries.
Opportunities
Join the Intellecap Sankalp Africa Forum in Nairobi on February 5 and 6. Use special discount code CHMI30 for 30% off registration!
USAID is accepting applications for the Child Blindness Program for activities aimed at increasing the number of children provided with quality care services. Application deadline is December 18, 2014.
The National Institute of Health is accepting applications for a research project grant for innovative measures of oral medication adherence for HIV treatment and prevention. This grant would fund research seeking to advance the development of bioanalytical assays, pill ingestion sensors, drug metabolite and taggant detection systems, or wireless technologic approaches for monitoring and improving adherence to oral antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis.
FHI 360 is hiring a Deputy Chief of Party/ Director Technical Support based in Lusaka, Zambia. The position requires providing technical oversight to all project activities.
Village Reach is hiring a Pharmacy Training Project Officer to support its Pharmacy Assistant Training Program in Malawi.
General News
The F.D.A. approved a new version of the cervical cancer vaccine. The updated vaccine protects against the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer. See full article here.
TIME Magazine named the Clinical Health Workers fighting Ebola as Person of the Year. The article highlights the actions of health workers in West Africa, in addition to the weak health infrastructures that were ill-equipped to handle the epidemic.
BBC reports that a new Ebola serum supply has reached Liberia. The experimental treatment, made from blood of recovered survivors, is being given to patients who will be monitored to determine how safe and effective the serum treatment is.
