Featured Projects: blogs and resources
This webpage compiles the blogs and resources for the projects highlighted in PSI’s “Flagship & Priority Projects” external webpage.
While the content included in this page is available externally, this webpage was created for purposes of the internal enhanced dashboard and is therefore only intended for internal use.
Please contact project directors for questions about the projects.
Click on a project name to view available blogs and resources.
A360 | Advance Reproductive Health | DISC | Emergency Operations Centers | Epic Mozambique | GEMS+ | Going the Last Mile | Healthcare For All | Impact Malaria | IPTI | MPHD | Project MPILO | SAMAGRA | SCTG | STAR | TRANSFORM WASH | Tsogolo Langa | USAID Impact
Integrated Programming for Girl’s Holistic Needs
The resonance of A360’s interventions have always been aided by our ability to offer more than just contraceptive...
Let's Talk About Her Health
Achieving gender equality requires action from everyone: journalists included.
4 Ways We’re Adapting to Climate Change
The climate is changing. As we'll share during COP28, our approach to delivering and ensuring health...
Making Space for Girls to be Part of the Solution
Implementers and policymakers need to center girls – their voices and experiences – as we collectively...
Young people need contraceptive options. Here's why.
World Contraceptive Day serves as a poignant annual reminder of the critical role that contraceptives...
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ – Youth Advocates Call for a Change
Instead of building a better future for young people, why not build it alongside them? PSI partnered...
SMART START: HOW DIGITIZATION IS REVOLUTIONIZING CONTRACEPTIVE COUNSELING
Health systems are often not designed to support women and girls in exercising their sexual and reproductive...
ACCELERATED INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (ASRH) INTERVENTION IN TANZANIA: FINDINGS FROM A MIXED METHODS EVALUATION
In an article published in the Frontiers, A360 has documented the experience of pursuing a process of...
INSTITUTIONALIZING GIRL-CENTERED PROGRAMMING–AT SCALE
When girls have the tools – like contraception – to take charge of their lives, they have the power to...
80+ Places PSI will be at ICFP
With 80+ posters, presentations, panels and other exciting events, explore where we will be at ICFP to...
The Next Chapter
On his final day with the project, A360 Project Director Matthew Wilson shares his reflections & insights...
Family Planning Digital Tools: A Comprehensive Evaluation
Three-quarters of the world's mobile internet users live in low-and middle-income countries. Given the...
What If Investments Were Also Evaluated on their Ability to Learn and Adapt?
How many project results frameworks have metrics measuring a project’s ability to learn and adapt? Very...
Measuring a 'Moving Target'
Human-centred design (HCD) is increasingly being used as a complementary approach to traditional global...
5 LESSONS FROM 5 YEARS OF INVESTING IN GIRL-CENTERED CONTRACEPTIVE PROGRAMMING
We’re committing to engaging the global ASRH community of practice to address the persistent barriers...
Exploring insights from Kuwa Mjanja for replication and adaptation in Kenya
Young people have tremendous potential to contribute to the growth and development of their communities...
12 Tools for the 12 Days of UHC
Tools and resources to support us all in centering our journey to UHC around the consumers we serve,...
LEARNING, EVOLVING AND COLLABORATING: MEASURING ASRHR IMPACT
This piece was originally featured on the A360 blog.
By Matthew Wilson, A360 Project Director, PSI
A360...
WHY THIS FIRST LADY IS ADVOCATING FOR GIRLS
A Spotlight on Her Excellency Alhaja Kafayat Oyetola, First Lady of Nigeria’s Osun State
This piece...
Young People Created This Meaningful Engagement Strategy
This piece was originally published on the A360 blog.
Young people have always been at the very core...
Q&A: How to Engage Youth, According to PSI Young Designers
Since A360’s launch in 2016, young people have shown us that the best solutions for adolescent sexual...
Aligning Contraception with Girls' Life Goals in Northern Nigeria
This technical brief analyzes the strategy and lessons learned from PSI’s flagship adolescent contraceptive...
Making Youth Programming Fit-for-Purpose in Mozambique
By Shazia Jodá, Communications Assistant, PSI Mozambique
From its start in 2016, PSI’s flagship...
Falling into Place - and Learning, Along the Way
The end of the first phase of PSI’s flagship adolescent contraceptive access project – Adolescents...
Youth Tell All: Young and Living in a Pandemic
By Christine Massawe, A360 Young Designer/Youth Officer, PSI Tanzania
Access to contraception is one...
Youth Contraceptive Programming: Learning from a Mid-Term Evaluation
As a learning project, PSI’s flagship adolescent sexual and reproductive health program, Adolescents...
This IYD2020, #BeThere for Youth Contraceptive Needs
Access to contraception is one of many tools that equips young people with the power to make the decisions...
Her Menses Matter
Jackline Rwegasira, A360 Youth Officer, PSI Tanzania
“You’re a grown up now, so you should stay away...
#FPinCOVIDresponse, as explained by PSI Young Designers
PSI youth programs are pivoting in response to COVID-19, with young designers driving ship.
Across our...
Young People's Reproductive Health Needs Don't Pause for Pandemics
The piece below was originally published on the A360 Learning Hub.
By Fifi Oluwatoyin Ogbondeminu, A360...
PSI is accelerating toward the SDGs, one Smart Start at a time.
Today, Bill and Melinda Gates awarded PSI’s flagship youth-powered sexual and reproductive health (SRH)...
PSI Exceeds FP2020 Goal Early!
by Amy Uccello, Senior Adolescent & Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health Technical Advisor, PSI
PSI...
For This 15-Year-Old, A Smart Start Life is a More Certain Life
By Alexandra Idol, Philanthropist and Founding Fellow of MaverickNext
Alexandra Idol is a founding Fellow...
Impact Through Implementation Science
This post originally appeared on the Adolescents 360 learning hub.
Despite what we might like to think,...
Reaching Mothers: We Thought It Was in the Bag
This post originally appeared on the Adolescents 360 learning hub.
This piece is a part of A360’s replication...
A New Way of Funding
Ayana has a dream for his 25-year-old sister.
It’s a dream for the same sister who teasingly calls him...
How PSI Co-Designs with Teens
1. ADOLESCENTS 360
Adolescents 360 will increase voluntary modern contraceptive use among adolescent...
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June 27, 2024
Preference-aligned fertility management among married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria: assessing a new measure of contraceptive autonomy
- RESOURCE TYPE: Data
- COUNTRY: Nigeria
February 23, 2024
A360 2023 Reflection Report
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria
July 6, 2023
Balancing evidence-informed and user-responsive design: Experience with human-centered design to generate layered economic empowerment and SRH programming in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria
- RESOURCE TYPE: Peer-Reviewed Publications, Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania
PROMOTING SELF-MANAGED CARE LIKE SELF-TESTING AND SELF-SAMPLING
Building upon the success gained from our work with HIV self-testing, PSI is actively applying this approach...
HIV Self-Testing is the New Normal
As part of the Sustainable Development Goals established in 2015, the global health community committed...
Self-Testing can Advance Hepatitis Elimination
Four in five people do not know their Hepatitis C status.
HIV Self-Testing to Take Off in India: Findings from the STAR Initiative
Globally, 98 countries now have policies supportive of HIVST and 52 are routinely implementing, yet many...
HIV Self-Testing: Revolutionizing the Global Health Agenda
Innovations are vital to achieving health-related Sustainable Development Goals. HIV self-testing is...
Webinar: HIV Self-Testing Scale Up and Health Systems
Four decades into the HIV epidemic, an estimated 25% of people with HIV, more than 9 million people,...
Ramping Up HIV Testing in the Era of COVID-19
By Karin Hatzold, Associate Director for HIV/TB, and Kasey Henderson, Advocacy Coordinator, PSI
Globally, health...
A Rising STAR
March 2019 – The largest global HIV self-testing initiative, known as the Self-Testing Africa (STAR)...
Knowledge of HIV Status is Power
By Dr. Karin Hatzold, Director HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) Initiative, and Shawn Malone, Project Director,...
Unitaid Drives Expansion in HIV Self-Testing to Get More People to Know their Status
READ AND DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT HERE
Geneva – Knowing their HIV status gives people the means to seek...
Shaping the Market for Innovation
by Dr. Karin Hatzold, STAR Initative Project Director, PSI
Watch to learn how Unitaid, PSI and partners...
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July 8, 2024
INNOVATING WITH HIV SELF-TESTING FOR IMPACT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE STAR INITIATIVE. BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 22 (SUPPLEMENT 1)
- RESOURCE TYPE: Peer-Reviewed Publications, Reports and Briefs
March 4, 2024
Innovating with HIV Self-Testing for Impact in Southern Africa
- RESOURCE TYPE: Peer-Reviewed Publications
- COUNTRY: South Africa
July 24, 2018
STAR 2018 Roadmap
- RESOURCE TYPE: Guides and Toolkits
Final PMI Impact Malaria Project Message
PMI Impact Malaria's lasting contributions to the global fight against malaria and the advancement of...
Lessons from Advancing Malaria Management
In a special supplement of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, we distill 6 years...
“1-3-7" Approach to Malaria Surveillance and Case Management is Key to Elimination Efforts
PMI Impact Malaria supports the Ministry of Health and National Malaria Elimination Program to provide...
BUILDING COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER CAPACITY TO DELIVER MALARIA CARE
Community health workers (CHWs) are critical lifelines in their communities. Ensuring they have the training,...
Local Champions Spearhead Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives
Malawi is classified as a high malaria burden country, with pregnant mothers facing the brunt of malaria disease....
Preventing Malaria while Pregnant
Explore how OTSS+ training is improving provider performance through quality supportive supervision.
PMI Impact Malaria Kicks Off Lifesaving Prevention Campaigns
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaigns mobilize to prevent malaria during rainy season.
Community Health Workers Play a Key Role in Therapeutic Efficacy Study in Rwanda
Bonaventure Siborurema has been a community health worker for twelve years. People in his village put...
Delivering Zero Malaria: A World Malaria Day Message from PMI Impact Malaria's Director, Ricki Orford
World Malaria Day is a time to recommit to progress towards reaching the last mile goal of ending malaria....
Community Lifelines
Explore how health workers in Mali help young children survive deadly illnesses like malaria and dia...
Digital data collection for malaria elimination
Progress has been made in Nigeria to reduce the burden of malaria. To fully eliminate the disease, the...
Embracing Equity: Understanding Gender Barriers and Malaria during Pregnancy in Cameroon and Kenya
Pregnant women are particularly at risk from malaria as their immunity against the disease declines during...
Case Study: Strengthening National Malaria Control Programs
Malaria prevention and treatment services are a critical component of national health systems in endemic...
Getting to Zero Malaria Starts with Building Stronger Health Systems
No single tool available today will solve the problem of malaria. Reducing malaria case incidence and...
PSI Malaria: A Year in Review
The first quarter of any new year presents the opportunity to reflect on the previous year while planning...
Remote Mentoring in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire Helps Maintain Malaria Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This piece was originally featured on the PMI Impact Malaria blog.
By Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria...
Saving Young Lives Through Timely, High Quality Malaria Service Delivery in Zambia
Originally published on the PMI Impact Malaria blog.
By Katherine Kemp, PMI Impact Malaria Communications...
Cameroon and Niger Prevented Malaria in Millions of Children During Summer and Fall 2020
Originally published on the PMI Impact Malaria blog.
By Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria Communications...
Responding to COVID-19 in Cameroon, the DRC, and Ghana: Innovative Training, Data for Decision Making, and New Guidelines
By Katherine Kemp, PMI Impact Malaria Communications Coordinator. Editorial and content contributions...
Preventing Childhood Malaria in Mali as the Pandemic Widens
By Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria Communications Manager, and the PMI Impact Malaria Mali team. Contributions...
Kenya's Community Health Volunteers Turn the Tide Against Malaria on Lake Victoria
The piece below originally appeared on PMI Impact Malaria’s blog. PMI Impact Malaria is led by...
Protecting Pregnant Women in Côte d’Ivoire from Malaria
Written by Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria Communications Manager, and Kathryn Malhotra and Jacques...
Nurses Lead Ghana’s Drive to Fast Track Malaria Diagnosis Using Rapid Diagnostic Tests
The piece below originally appeared on PMI Impact Malaria’s blog.
The miracle of birth and the making...
Join PSI at the 2019 Global Digital Health Forum
On December 9th, the PSI team will join government stakeholders, digital health technologists, researchers,...
Join PSI at the ASTMH 2019 Annual Meeting
Starting November 20th, the PSI team will be joined by hundreds of public health professionals at the American...
Fighting Malaria in Children During West Africa's Rainy Season
The piece below originally appeared on PMI Impact Malaria’s blog.
As the flagship global service...
Regional Technical Advisors in Cote d’Ivoire Hit the Ground Running to Improve Malaria Service Delivery
This post originally appeared on PMI Impact Malaria’s blog.
by Kathryn Malhotra and Silue Mamadou,...
Six Questions with PMI Impact Malaria’s Senior Project Director, Ricki Orford
This post originally appeared on PMI Impact Malaria’s blog.
By Anne Bulchis, Communications Manager,...
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April 23, 2024
PMI Impact Malaria Quality Improvement Technical Brief
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
April 23, 2024
Independent Evaluation of The OTSS Approach to Quality Assurance of Malaria Service Delivery
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
April 23, 2024
OTSS+ Implementation Guide
- RESOURCE TYPE: Guides and Toolkits
A Stronger Private Sector for Increased LARC Access
If the evidence shows that long-acting, reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods are safe and effective...
Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement: Three Country Perspectives
MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery is putting the principles of Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement...
Midwives Gain MOMENTUM – Strengthening Local Private Sector Health Networks
MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery funded USAID, supports private sector engagement in the delivery...
Informed and Determined: Young People in Rural Benin Command the Airwaves to Talk About Sex
Discover how young leaders in Kandi, northern Benin, organized an interactive radio program to share...
Four Principles for Private Sector Engagement
The lessons we’ve learned in the 12 months since launching the USAID-funded MOMENTUM Private Healthcare...
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October 17, 2024
Early Lessons From Working With Local Partners to Expand Private Sector Health Care Networks in Burundi and Mali
- RESOURCE TYPE: Peer-Reviewed Publications
- COUNTRY: Burundi
October 8, 2024
PSI UGANDA 2023 ANNUAL REPORT
- RESOURCE TYPE: Analytics, Data, Mixed Methods, Qualitative, Quantitative, Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Uganda
September 28, 2023
Person-Centered Family Planning Counseling in the Private Sector
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Uganda
Self-Care for All: Bringing Youth into the Conversation
We sat down with Ipsa Agnani, a representative for youth voices in the Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG),...
Self-Care: A Foundational Component of Health System Sustainability
Embedding self-care practices into the healthcare continuum has the potential to improve health and quality...
MOBILIZING A MOVEMENT FOR SELF-CARE
Before COVID-19, the WHO estimated that less than half of the world’s population had access to basic...
Adapting the WHO Self-Care Guidelines to the Local Context: Lessons from Uganda
With the WHO’s published, Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health, self-care had...
80+ Places PSI will be at ICFP
With 80+ posters, presentations, panels and other exciting events, explore where we will be at ICFP to...
12 Tools for the 12 Days of UHC
Tools and resources to support us all in centering our journey to UHC around the consumers we serve,...
Supportive self-care environments to advance menstrual equity
This piece was originally featured on the Self-Care Trailblazer Group’s blog. PSI is a member of the...
Self-care: A Critical Answer to COVID-19
by Sandy Garcon, Senior Manager, Advocacy PSI
Global health experts from around the world are joining...
Acceleration of Self-Care in the Time of COVID-19
This post was originally featured on Knowledge Success’ Blog.
Banner Image Photo: A woman holds a self-sample...
Committing to the Future of Self-Care
In 1994, the 179 governments represented in Cairo at the first International Conference for Population...
A New Frontier in Self-Care?: Self-Removal Options for Long-Acting Contraceptives
This post originally appeared on FHI 360’s Contraceptive Technology Innovation Exchange platform.
by...
The Four Dimensions of Self-Care
by Pierre Moon, PSI
For millennia, people have taken measures to care for themselves—prevent disease,...
Self-Care Starts with Women
by Kristy Kade, Deputy Executive Director, White Ribbon Alliance Global Secretariat & Co-Chair, What...
What do Health Providers Think of Self-Care?
by Sandy Garçon, Senior Advocacy Manager, PSI
Interventions that were previously available in the developing...
Let's Talk About Self-Care
Meet these 10 Women Deliver Young Leaders, youth advocates from around the globe active in the programs...
Why the WHO is Launching Self-Care Guidelines
by Ian Askew, Director, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, including the UNDP- UNFPA- UNICEF-...
Sparking the Self-Care Movement
by Miles Kemplay, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation @CIFFchild
For the last five years, the...
Power is Ripe for Reinvention
by Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI @KarlHofmannPSI
Power, its abuses and its character are all around...
The Time is Now: Building the Evidence for Self-Care
by Martha Brady, Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health, PATH @PATHtweets
We stand at the opportune...
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October 8, 2024
PSI UGANDA 2023 ANNUAL REPORT
- RESOURCE TYPE: Analytics, Data, Mixed Methods, Qualitative, Quantitative, Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Uganda
May 17, 2023
State of Self-Care Report
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Bolivia, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda
July 25, 2022
KIT DE HERRAMIENTAS AUTOCUIDADO PARA CSU
- RESOURCE TYPE: Guides and Toolkits
The Power of Choice – Celebrating World Contraception Day
When it comes to contraception, there is no one-size-fits-all option. That is why this World Contraception...
Four Ways to Design Inclusive Digital Health Solutions for Women and Girls
In this blog post, we walk you through four examples across PSI programs of how we can design person-centered...
MOVING THE NEEDLE ON CONTRACEPTIVE SELF-CARE: LEVERAGING A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH IN NIGERIA
Injectable contraceptive methods are highly popular in Nigeria. In fact, they represent the most popular...
Introducing the DISC Learnings Series: Insights for Catalyzing Contraceptive Self-Care
Self-care is increasingly gaining traction within the global SRH community of practice, particularly...
LEVERAGING DIGITAL TOOLS TO SPARK INTEREST IN SELF-INJECT CONTRACEPTION: RESULTS FROM DISC’S PARTNERSHIP WITH META IN NIGERIA
In Nigeria, Delivering Innovation in Self-Care (DISC) leveraged Facebook ad credit support to promote...
How Data Improves Health Outcomes
Explore how PSI uses real-time digital data collection to gather insights faster and serve consumers...
Tackling Pronatalism in Pursuit of Reproductive Liberation
Whatever the reason, pronatalism’s chief characteristic is that it reduces people to reproductive vessels...
Rig Trucks: Meeting women with family planning ‘where they are’
By Stephen Alege, Head, Social Behaviour Change, PSI Uganda; Gracie Nakazzi, Area Program Officer, PSI...
RESOURCES
October 8, 2024
PSI UGANDA 2023 ANNUAL REPORT
- RESOURCE TYPE: Analytics, Data, Mixed Methods, Qualitative, Quantitative, Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Uganda
February 16, 2024
DISC Empathy Training Evaluation Study Findings
- RESOURCE TYPE: Data, Mixed Methods
- COUNTRY: Nigeria
September 6, 2023
Missed opportunity for self-injectable contraception awareness and adoption: Insights from client exit interviews in Uganda and Nigeria
- RESOURCE TYPE: Data, Peer-Reviewed Publications, Qualitative
- COUNTRY: Nigeria, Uganda
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTERS
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Making tuberculosis care easier
In Myanmar, health consumers often do not go beyond the preliminary tuberculosis screening. Explore how...
Scaling Digital Solutions Improves Health Security - Locally and Globally
Strong disease surveillance systems are essential to detect and respond to infectious disease outbreaks...
THE PRIVATE SECTOR’S CRITICAL ROLE IN LAST MILE MALARIA ELIMINATION
In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), 70% of the population first seek fever treatment from the private...
"Wiring” Health Systems Improves Health Security. Here’s Why.
Public Health Emergency Operations Centers connect communities, healthcare providers and public health...
Partnering to Expand Public Health Emergency Operations Centers
by Pooja Magadi, EOC Associate, PSI Laos
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be at the forefront of...
Public Health Emergency Operations Centers: From Malaria Surveillance to COVID-19 Response in Laos
By Kemi Tesfazghi, GEMS Program Director and Bram Piot, Senior Surveillance & Monitoring Officer,...
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January 30, 2023
Case Study: Developing an Emergency Preparedness and Response Resources Dashboard for PHEOC Operations in Cambodia
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Cambodia
December 9, 2022
Learning Brief: Engaging the private sector in disease surveillance using social media chatbots in Myanmar
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Myanmar
December 9, 2022
Learning Brief: What does it take to establish effective disease surveillance systems? Lessons learned from the nationwide deployment of a DHIS2-based disease surveillance system in Laos
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Laos
Healthcare for all
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SAMAGRA
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Samagra Urban Health Project led by PSI India wins $14 million from USAID
By Ravi Subbiah, Senior Director PSI India
In a win for women, girls, and marginalized populations,...
USAID IMPACT
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A Fresh Start to Female Condom Marketing
by Nora Miller, WCG, and Ashley Jackson, PSI
Imagine a woman named Cynthia who lives in Malawi.
Cynthia’s...
USAID Awards Global Contract to PSI and Partners to Advance Malaria Service Delivery in 28 Countries
PSI is excited to announce that it has been successfully awarded a new contract by USAID to support the...
What We Learned: Key Takeaways From USAID's Global Health Mini University
On Sept. 14, 2017, USAID hosted global health organizations to present and learn about cutting edge and...
Transforming Health For All in Angola
By Dr. Paulo R P Souza, chief of party of HFA, PSI/Angola
In Angola, nearly two decades of peace and...
The Top 3 Most Influential Past US Presidents in Global Health
By D’Arcy Williams, Intern, External Relations and Communications
United States presidents have shaped...
Market Development for New Contraceptive Products
In PSI’s latest issue of Pulse, our digital quarterly report, we explore how smart innovation is feeding...
5 Unexpected Findings for Preventing and Treating HIV in Hidden Populations
By Alejandra Cabrera, PASMO, Strategic Information Manager
A new hub, found at staging.psi-2017.flywheelsites.com/hiv-findings/,...
What are People Saying about Gayle Smith?
By Regina Moore, Manager, External Relations and Communications
Last week, President Obama nominated...
Fighting Fraudulent Malaria Drugs in Benin
By Bijan Manavizadeh, ABMS Technical Assistant/Peace Corps 3rd year volunteer
The United States Agency...
Links We Liked
By Jenny Tolep, External Relations & Communications
Innovation in global health is always buzzing...
What Skills will Development Professionals Need in the 21st Century?
By Minal Bopaiah, Communications Manager, PSI
What skills do you most value as a development professional?...
Cross-Sector Alliances Needed for Sustainable and Profitable Growth
By: Jackie Presutti, Associate, Corporate Partnerships & Philanthropy
“Few of our challenges are...
Getting A New Contraception Option to Market: How Public-Private Partnerships Drive Innovation
By Minal Bopaiah, Communications Manager, PSI
The modern Senegalese woman has it together. From raising...
Procter & Gamble and PSI: Providing Safe Drinking Water Around the World
Read more from PSI’s Corporate Partnerships Report 2014
PSI Learns about USAID's Innovation Lab
By Samrawit Gougsa
PSI is devoted to “thinking outside the box” in the work that we do, so USAID’s Innovation...
IPTI
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5 (Plus Project) Facts You Didn't Know - PSI's Impact on Malaria Chemoprevention
As part of our official launch, we’re highlighting key facts about the Plus Project, a Unitaid-funded...
ENGAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN MYANMAR
PSI is enhancing disease outbreak surveillance and public health emergency preparedness and response...
GEMS Legacy Webinar Series
Join us for an interactive three-part learning series where we’ll share insights we've gathered during...
Private Sector Collaboration for Malaria Elimination
Explore the legacy of the Greater Mekong Subregion Elimination of Malaria through Surveillance proje...
THE PRIVATE SECTOR’S CRITICAL ROLE IN LAST MILE MALARIA ELIMINATION
In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), 70% of the population first seek fever treatment from the private...
Integrating Private Providers Into Malaria Elimination Efforts
Vietnam and other countries in the GMS region have set a goal to eliminate malaria by 2030. While possible,...
Getting to Zero Malaria Starts with Building Stronger Health Systems
No single tool available today will solve the problem of malaria. Reducing malaria case incidence and...
Public Health Emergency Operations Centers: From Malaria Surveillance to COVID-19 Response in Laos
By Kemi Tesfazghi, GEMS Program Director and Bram Piot, Senior Surveillance & Monitoring Officer,...
Every Case Counts: Malaria Elimination through Private Sector Case Management
By Kemi Tesfazghi, GEMS Program Director, PSI
Even as the world grapples with a pandemic, malaria presents...
Total Health System Malaria Surveillance
By M. James Eliades, PSI Asia Malaria Elimination Director 2017 -2019
Malaria has evolved. In countries...
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September 25, 2023
GEMS+ Legacy Book
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam
April 25, 2023
Shaping Antimalarial Drug Markets in Myanmar
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Myanmar
April 25, 2023
Strengthening Public-Private Sector Engagement in Vietnam
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Vietnam
Going the Last Mile for HIV in Zimbabwe During COVID-19
By Noah Taruberekera, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor, PSI Zimbabwe
In March 2020, Zimbabwe...
PROJECT MPILO
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“I found hope when I saw other men living with HIV”: The power of peer support in helping men cope with an HIV diagnosis
As of February 2024, an estimated 95 percent of HIV-positive men in South Africa knew their viral status,...
In Supporting Healthcare Workers, a Little Empathy Goes a Long Way
We're finding empathy to be a powerful problem-solving tool in healthcare because it has the potential...
HIV Treatment Literacy: Are We Missing the Forest for the Trees?
Treatment literacy helps people with HIV take ownership of their health by providing the foundational...
USING PEER COACHES TO COUNTER HIV STIGMA IN SOUTH AFRICA
In South Africa, PSI’s Coach Mpilo model has transformed the role of an HIV counselor or case manager...
Reflecting on Men, HIV and Mental Health
October is Mental Health Month, which has us thinking about how gender norms can affect mental health,...
Lifesaving Message in a Bottle: Changing the Narrative about Living with HIV
In the public health sector, we sometimes forget that simpler can be better.
Men's Health Month: How Do We Close the HIV Treatment Gap for Men?
June is Men’s Health Month, and while the focus is on men’s attitudes about their health, we’ve also...
Improving Patient Care Through Empathy for Health Providers
This World Health Workers Week, we're reminded of the essential role that empathy plays in strengthening...
HIV Behavior: Applying What We Know
In this year's COP guidance, PEPFAR staff are encouraged to integrate behavioral and social science interventions...
Six Ways Consumer Insights Drive Social Behavior Change
PSI elevates consumer insights to design tailored programming, sharpen focus, and ultimately improve...
This Father’s Day, Skip the Tie. Give Men Support
By Nina Hasen, Vice President, HIV and TB Programs, PSI and Shawn Malone, Project...
Looking back on the Breaking the Cycle Project
This piece was orginally featured on LinkedIn by James Bell, Associate Director at Ipsos.
Back in 2017...
Peer Power: Engaging Men with HIV to Reach Men with HIV
by Shawn Malone, Project Director for HIV/AIDS (Gates Project), PSI and Kasey Henderson, Advocacy Coordinator,...
RESOURCES
February 9, 2024
The Coach Mpilo Playbook: A Practical Guide for Implementers
- RESOURCE TYPE: Guides and Toolkits
February 9, 2024
Men & HIV: A Job Aid for Healthcare Providers
- RESOURCE TYPE: Guides and Toolkits
January 11, 2023
Words Matter
- RESOURCE TYPE: Guides and Toolkits, Interactives
- COUNTRY: South Africa
Epic Mozambique
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HIV Does Not Define Us
U=U CAMPAIGN TACKLES STIGMA IN MOZAMBIQUE
By Nina Hasen, Director of HIV/TB,...
Transform WASH
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Women Powering Progress: Leveraging Water for Peace
Actively engaging women in the WASH sector is necessary, and key to making a significant impact. Exp...
TAKING A MARKET-BASED APPROACH TO SCALE SANITATION IN ETHIOPIA
In Ethiopia, PSI leads the implementation of USAID Transform WASH (T/WASH) activity with consortium partners,...
From Open Defecation to Sanitation Revolution
Open defecation continues to plague the lives of countless Liberians yearning for urgent change. Explore...
Harnessing Potential: Khaleel Ahmed’s Triumph with DQ Sales®
In the Somali region of Ethiopia, Khaleel Ahmed, once an ordinary mason, has found new success through...
Market-Based Sanitation’s Win-Win: Profitable Businesses and Positive Community Change
Bayissa, a resilient entrepreneur in his early thirties, embodies the extraordinary potential that arises...
Supporting Microentrepreneurs Through WASH Capacity Building
Since 2017, USAID Transform WASH has been on a mission to improve WASH outcomes by providing affordable...
Transforming Menstrual Health in Ethiopia
A key challenge in countries like Ethiopia is the inadequate and expensive supply of quality menstrual...
230 TOILET SLABS, AND COUNTING
Assefash Tadesse, 32-years-old, is an 8th grade dropout and a mother of five children. In her community,...
WASH Products, Made in Ethiopia: Great for Health and Good for the Economy
Learn how USAID Transform WASH teamed up with Splash Social Enterprise in Ethiopia to increase domestic...
Lead with Problems, End with a Sale: Raising the “Decision Intelligence” of Sanitation Customers in Ethiopia
By Monte Achenbach, Chief of Party, USAID Transform WASH, PSI Ethiopia
We’ve all heard of IQ, a...
Strengthening WASH Business in Ethiopia: Financing for Small Enterprises
Currently, only nine percent of Ethiopians have access to basic sanitation services – a serious situation...
Strengthening WASH businesses in Ethiopia: Manufacturing Challenges and their Impact on Market Development
Currently, only nine percent of Ethiopians have access to basic sanitation services – a serious situation...
Connecting Market-Based Sanitation Stakeholders During COVID-19
By Monte Achenbach, Chief of Party, USAID Transform WASH, PSI Ethiopia; and with contribution from Melaku...
Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Start-Up Requirements and their Impact on WASH Market Development
Currently, only nine percent of Ethiopians have access to basic sanitation services – a serious situation...
Sanitation innovation through user-centred design in Ethiopia
If product prototypes are successful, they will be produced at scale and made available locally, addressing...
Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Tariffs and Taxes on Sanitation Products
Currently, only nine percent of Ethiopians have access to basic sanitation services – a serious situation...
Innovating for no-touch handwashing: Ethiopian industrial designers reach for scale
The simple act of properly washing hands with soap is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. ...
Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Foreign Business Owners
Earning royalties and repatriating profits can play important roles in ensuring a strong WASH marketplace
In...
Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Access to Foreign Exchange
Currently, only nine percent of Ethiopians have access to basic sanitation services – a serious situation...
How an 8th grade dropout sanitation entrepreneur is saving lives
Have you even wondered why an elephant, a massive, powerful animal, can fall prey to a lion whose size...
A Toilet's Journey from Market to Household
Bonnie Glick, Deputy Administrator of USAID, recently visited Ethiopia where she had the chance to meet...
Should Sanitation be Taxed?
Only about 7% of Ethiopia's population of 100 million currently has access to an improved toilet – a...
How to Create Demand for Sanitation Products and Services
Enormous progress has been made in reducing open defecation in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the quality of...
How Poor Installation Created New Business Opportunities
Sparking growth in the sanitation market in Ethiopia has proven to be quite a roller coaster ride, full...
Woreda WASH Team's Renewed Energy to Increases Demand for Sanitation and Hygiene
“We had a lack of understanding on WASH implementation and coordination. However, the series of trainings,...
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November 10, 2022
After the Flush: Demonstrating a Sustainable Approach to Fecal Sludge Management
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: India
September 21, 2022
USAID Transform WASH Resources
- RESOURCE TYPE: Reports and Briefs
- COUNTRY: Ethiopia
