Projects

For the past 50+ years we’ve seen impressive gains in global health—but to meet the needs of the 3.5 billion people who still lack access to healthcare there are new boundaries to break.

PSI’s flagship projects demonstrate that when we listen to consumers more effectively and turn insights into action, we can move global healthcare into the future–creating sustainable health systems that lead to Universal Health Coverage. It’s time to revolutionize how we deliver care.

FEATURED
PROJECTS

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Across Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya, A360 is scaling girl-centered contraceptive programs.

FUNDER: THE CHILDREN’S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (CIFF) AND THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

Sexual and Reproductive Health

MOMENTUM expands access to and use of high-quality, evidence-based maternal, newborn and child health services, voluntary family planning and reproductive healthcare.

FUNDER: UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)

Self-Care And Sexual and Reproductive Health

In Nigeria and Uganda, DISC works to increase local innovation and capacity for self-care as a cornerstone of sexual and reproductive health.

FUNDER: THE CHILDREN’S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (CIFF)

HIV, COVID-19, HEPATITIS C

STAR is building a rigorous evidence base on the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of HIV, COVID-19 and Hepatitis C self-testing.

FUNDER: UNITAID AND FIND

Self-Care

The SCTG is a global coalition dedicated to expanding self-care so health systems are better equipped to achieve universal health coverage.

FUNDER: CIFF AND THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION

MALARIA

Led by country efforts, PMI Impact Malaria supports national malaria programs to fight malaria, strengthen health systems and save lives.

FUNDER: USAID

PRIORITY
PROJECTS

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTERS
As part of our efforts to support malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion, in November 2018 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a grant that enabled PSI, alongside the Laos government, to pioneer a public health emergency operations centers strengthening project. The project’s focus is to improve the overall capacity for efficient disease surveillance and response while specifically accelerating malaria elimination.

  • Approach: Health Systems Strengthening; COVID-19 response
  • Location: South Africa
  • Funder: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
The USAID and PMI funded Health for All (HFA) project supports the Ministry of Health of Angola through its National Directorate of Public Health (DNSP), National Malaria Control Program, and the Primary Health care Departments to improve access to quality health care services for the Angolan people.

  • Approach: Health Systems Strengthening
  • Location: Angola
  • Funder: USAID

SAMAGRA
The Samagra project aims to improve access to inexpensive health services and tackle the barriers related to the social determinants of health by 1) increasing the use of modern contraceptives, case detection for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB); and 2) improving maternal and child health care coverage to include antenatal care (ANC), intra-natal, and postnatal care (PNC) in these populations, along with improving immunization rates.

  • Approach: Urban Health Systems
  • Location: India
  • Funder: USAID

IMPACT

  • Approach: Market shaping
  • Location: Madagascar
  • Funder: USAID

INTERMITTENT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF MALARIA IN INFANTS (IPTI)

IPTI will support widespread adoption of an effective but underutilized prevention method that could avert 6.7 million cases of malaria and anemia in children under two by 2030.

  • Location: Global
  • Funder: UNITAID

GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION ELIMINATION OF MALARIA THROUGH SURVEILLANCE (GEMS+)

GEMS+ supports national malaria programs in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam to integrate the private sector into national malaria elimination strategies, surveillance systems, planning and management structures.

  • Location: Regional – Southeast Asia 
  • Funder: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

TSOGOLO LANGA

Tsogolo Langa is a targeted investment program that aims to scale up the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s (FCDO) support for sexual and reproductive health service delivery in Malawi through national third-party providers, with a view to increasingly meet the needs of youth and younger couples.

  • Location: Malawi 
  • Funder: FCDO

ADVANCE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

  • Location: Regional – WCA
  • Funder: Global Affairs Canada

GOING THE LAST MILE

As the HIV response matures, PSI is working closely with national governments to finish the “last mile” of epidemic control. The Going the Last Mile project in Zimbabwe is strengthening the national HIV response, first by ensuring full coverage of key interventions such as treatment, voluntary medical male circumcision and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in critical regions, then transitioning stable programs to the Government of Zimbabwe.

  • Location: Zimbabwe
  • Funder: USAID

PROJECT MPILO

Project Mpilo reframes the HIV counselor or case manager as a coach and mentor who provides ongoing guidance and support–borne out of personal experience–from the point of diagnosis to the point of viral suppression and treatment stability. Coaches are based in the community but work closely with clinic staff, receiving referrals from nurses, accompanying men to clinic visits as needed, and engaging in joint problem-solving.

  • Location: South Africa
  • Funder: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

EpiC Mozambique

This project leverages PSI’s deep strengths in communication to reduce HIV-related stigma and drive uptake of HIV treatment.

  • Location: Mozambique
  • Funder: USAID through FHI360

TRANSFORM WASH

Transform WASH aims to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) outcomes in Ethiopia, with a focus on sanitation by stimulating demand at the community level, strengthening supply chains and building an enabling environment for a vibrant private market.

  • Location: Ethiopia
  • Funder: USAID