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...
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...
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 mal...
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...
A Stronger Private Sector for Increased LARC Access
If the evidence shows that long-acting, reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods are safe and effective...
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...
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...
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...
Healthcare for all
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SAMAGRA
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USAID IMPACT
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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...
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...
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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,...
