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Health Systems Strengthening
URC’s work strengthens the performance and interconnectedness of the six health system building blocks identified by the World Health Organization: service delivery, health workforce, strategic information, commodities, health financing, and leadership and governance. We provide high-quality technical assistance that focuses on national priorities and maximizes the effectiveness of a country’s resources.
URC's health systems strengthening work emphasizes a systematic, evidence-based approach designed to bring about significant improvement in:
- Patient and population health outcomes, particularly among the poor
- Efficiency and effectiveness of systems and processes of care
- Social responsiveness and accountability
Through continuous quality improvement and innovation and close, supportive relationships with a country’s Ministry of Health, we build institutional, programmatic, and financial capacities for a high-performing health sector that adapts to changing situations. We also design context-specific health communication and behavior change strategies to bolster our systems strengthening work at the individual, family, and community levels.
Supporting our health systems strengthening approach, we use evidence-based approaches to improve health worker performance and engagement and employ our global One Health strategy to expand interdisciplinary collaboration for all aspects of health care.
One growing area for capacity building is mobile technology. URC is applying mHealth technology to strengthen service delivery and supervision systems—enabling real-time communication among health care providers, tools for decision-support, and streamlined referrals and recordkeeping.
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The Benin Integrated Family Health Project improved management systems and mobilized communities using the health systems strengthening approach
News
- How a Community-focused Approach Helped a Mother in Uganda Beat Malaria
- Community-Based Family Planning: Empowering Women in Uganda
- Ending TB in Uganda: The Role of Research
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- URC Contributes to Significant Declines in TB Incidence and Mortality in South Africa
- Rapid Test Improves TB Diagnosis in People with HIV in South Africa
- Accurate Record-Keeping Makes a Difference: TB/HIV Care in Uganda
- Logistics Professionals Improve Benin Health Supply Chain
- Family Support Crucial in Community-based Drug Rehabilitation, Philippines
- Triplets Born to HIV-Positive Mother Test Negative
- Improving HIV Viral Load Coverage in East Central Uganda
- Teen Club Makes a Difference for HIV-Positive Youth, Eswatini
- Village Malaria Workers Bring Myanmar Closer to Malaria Elimination
- Meet the Experts: Dr. Rogers Twesigye, Technical Advisor, Malaria, RHITES-EC
- Born Too Soon: Reducing Perinatal Mortality in Northern Uganda
- Local Governments Leading the Way to Reduce Drug Dependence in the Philippines
- Hospital Lab Accreditation Improves Patient Care and Safety in Uganda
- Ugandan Military Adapts to Improve Care and Retention of HIV Clients During COVID-19
- TB CARE II Forum Highlights Need for Digital Health Technologies in a World with COVID-19
- URC Project Led to Self-Sustaining Health Care Accreditation Council in Jordan
- Preventing Anemia During Pregnancy in Uganda
- A Quick Pivot: Delivering HIV Services to Key and Priority Populations During COVID-19
- Breastfed is Best Fed: Overcoming Challenges to Breastfeeding in Uganda
- Drug Abuse Counseling Needed More than Ever in the Philippines During COVID-19
- Indoor Residual Spraying Helps Reduce Malaria Burden in East Central Uganda
- Embracing Change, Transforming Lives Through Community-Based Drug Rehabilitation
- Using Community Case Management to Control MDR-TB in East Central Uganda
- DREAMS Boot Camps in Uganda Reduce Service Gaps and Improve Efficiency for USAID Partners
- Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Collection of Case Studies
- Mobile Health Clinics – Getting HIV Treatment to the Military
- Recovery is Possible – Community-based Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines
- Combating Stigma to End TB: It’s Everyone’s Fight
- Tracking Down TB in an Urban Slum: Patient-led Contact Tracing
- Supporting Response to COVID-19 While Continuing Essential Health Services
- A Precious Beginning – Improving Care for Preterm Infants
- Promoting Government Ownership and Sustainability in Ghana: A Conversation with Marni Laverentz
- Bringing Antiretroviral Therapy Treatment Closer to Home
- Military VMMC Outreach Scale-up Makes a Difference in Uganda
- HIV-Positive Adolescents Promote Treatment Adherence
- Jamaica: From Zika Outbreak to Sustained Response
- Reversing the HIV Epidemic in Uganda
- TB Journeys - Stories from South Africa
- Partnering with the Private Sector to Improve TB Detection and Care
- Family Life School: Promoting Breastfeeding for Better Health
- Strengthening NGOs to Combat HIV/AIDS in Central America
- Uganda Launches 100-Day Plan to Prevent TB among People Living with HIV
- Zika and Beyond: Building Resiliency for Future Outbreaks
- HIV-Positive Peer Referrals Save Lives
- URC Celebrates International Women’s Day 2019!
- Health Systems Strengthening Legacy in Cambodia
- Uganda’s TB Hunters
- Pick Up the Phone to Fight Corruption
- Cruising to Better Health on Lake Volta
- No Longer a Secret – Disclosing HIV
- DREAM Big: Empowering Adolescent Girls to Stay HIV-Free
- Promoting Human Rights, Labor Rights, and HIV Prevention
- Transparency in Health Engagement Project - Interinstitutional Roundtable
- Essential Care for Every Baby: Zika in the Caribbean
- Screening for Tuberculosis in Uganda Prisons
- Advocacy Dialogue Held to End TB in Uganda
- ASSIST Project Neonatologist Shares Her Story from the Frontline Fighting Zika
- Neonatóloga del Proyecto ASSIST comparte su historia desde el frente de lucha contra el Zika
- Video: Empowering Communities for Better Health in Ghana
- Blog: The Untapped Lifesaving Potential of Maternal Death Reviews
- Optimizing Health Worker Performance and Productivity to Achieve the 95-95-95 Targets
- 3 Questions with Kesaobaka Dikgole: Delivering Differently for HIV Clients in Botswana
- The Root Causes of Ugandans Avoiding HIV Testing and Treatment
- URC Experts to Present at Global AIDS Conference
- Creating a Digital System to Track and Improve Health and Nutrition in Indonesia
- Quality of Care Network Working to Reduce Maternal and Newborn Deaths in 10 Countries
- Reducing the Likelihood of the Next Ebola Outbreak
Projects
- Keneya Nieta
- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao for Health (BARMMHealth)
- Cure Tuberculosis Project
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- Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP) Eswatini
- Sustainable HIV Knowledge Management Project
- USAID RenewHealth - Expanding Access to Community-Based Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines
- Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management Project (GHSC-PSM)
- Lesotho Compact: Health Systems Strengthening and Reducing the Burden of HIV/AIDS
- Nigerien Armed Forces Partnership for Sustainable HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control (Niger-DHAPP)
- Defeat Malaria Activity
- Defeat TB
- Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP) Uganda
- Reaching an AIDS-Free Generation (RAFG) in Burundi
- Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Northern Uganda (RHITES-N, Acholi) Activity
- Global Health Supply Chain – Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA)
- Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD)
- Human Resources for Health (HRH2030)
- Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in East Central Uganda Activity (RHITES-EC)
- Strengthen Non-Governmental Capacities to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nicaragua
- Support Eswatini to Achieve Sustained Epidemic Control Program
- Tuberculosis South Africa Project (TBSAP)
- Anemia Implementation Science Initiative
- Multinational Lung Cancer Control Program (MLCCP)
- National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey
- PrevenSida
- Strengthening High Quality Laboratory Services Scale-Up for HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring in Malawi under PEPFAR (CDC-Malawi)
- Strengthening Laboratory Diagnosis and Monitoring to Scale up and Improve HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Services in the Kingdom of Lesotho under PEPFAR (CDC-Lesotho)
- Strengthening Local Capacity to Deliver Sustainable Quality-Assured Universal Coverage of Clinical Services in Lubombo Region, and Provide Central Level Technical Assistance to the Eswatini National AIDS Program (ENAP) in the Kingdom of Eswatini
- Support to Improve Maternal and Child Health (SIMCH) Project in Guyana
- TB CARE II
- Technical Support for National and Subnational Capacity Building to Improve Leadership and Management of District Quality Improvement Programs for Maternal and Newborn Care in Bangladesh
- USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project
- HIV Co-Infection Surveillance Strategies (CDC-LAC)
- MCC WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Consultancy)
- Strengthening Clinical Services for People Living with HIV in Central America (CDC-PLHIV)
- TASC4 ICT
- Technical Assistance Support Contract 4, Africa (TASC4 AFRICA)
- Transparency in Health Engagement (THE) Project - Albania
- USAID Quality Health Services (QHS)
- USAID Systems for Health Project (Ghana)
- Advancing Newborn, Child and Reproductive Health (ANCRE) Program
- Online System Development & Maintenance of Sentinel Sites Monitoring for Health and Nutrition Project
- Social Health Protection Project
- Strengthening Uganda’s Systems for Treating AIDS Nationally (SUSTAIN)
- Community Empowerment of People Against Tuberculosis (CEPAT)
- Improving TB Detection and TB-HIV Services Integration
- Nutri-Salud: Community Nutrition and Health Project
- Production for Improved Nutrition (PIN)
- Strengthening TB Case Detection and Treatment and TB-HIV Coordinated Activities
- Translating Research into Action (TRAction) Project
- Control and Prevention of Malaria Project (CAP-Malaria)
- Laboratory Development and Set-Up
- Malaria Surveillance and Laboratory Quality Assurance
- Sanofi TB-DM Management Project South Africa
- Diagnosis and Management of Severe Febrile Illness: Tibu Homa
- HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Laboratory Support
- Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program
- TB Program South Africa
- Technical Support for Zimbabwe Health Results-Based Financing Program and National Quality Policy Framework
- USAID Primary Health Care Project in Iraq (PHCPI)
- USAID Services de Santé de Qualité pour Haïti-Nord (SSQH-Nord) (Quality Health Services for Haiti-North)
- Building Human Resource Capacity to Support Prevention, Care, and Treatment: Strategic Information and Other HIV/AIDS Programs
- Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3)
- Lesotho Health Sector (LHS) Project
- Partnership for the Community Management of Child Health (Partenariat pour la Prise en Charge Communautaire de la Santé Infantile Prise-C)
- Piloting a Model Family Medicine Clinic for Labor Migrants
- Quality Improvement in the Delivery of Health Services in Belize
- Strengthening the Response to TB, HIV and STIs in Central America and Panama Region
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI)
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Afghanistan
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Burundi
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Georgia
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Ukraine
- Better Health Services (BHS)
- Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care (EONC) Networks Project
- HIV and AIDS Comprehensive Care Initiative (HACCI)
- Jordan Healthcare Accreditation Project (JHAP)
- Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment (ProMPT)
- Technical Assistance and Support Contract 3: Global Health (TASC3 Global Health)
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Cote d'Ivoire
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Guatemala
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Malawi
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Mali
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Niger
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | South Africa
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Swaziland
- Benin Integrated Family Health Project (Projet Intégré de Santé Familiale, PISAF)
- Community-Based Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Innovation
- Global Fund Consulting Services
- Increasing Access to HIV Testing and Counseling
- Integrated Infectious Disease Capacity Building Evaluation (IDCAP)
- Multi-Sector Alliance Program (Alianzas II)
- Quality Improvement of Family Planning Care
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Ecuador
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | El Salvador
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Ethiopia
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Honduras
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Russia
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Senegal
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Tanzania
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Uganda
- Food and Nutrition Interventions (NuLife)
- Georgia Tuberculosis Prevention Project (TPP)
- Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
- Malaria Control in Cambodia (MCC) Project
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Namibia
- USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) | Vietnam
- Data Quality Audit (DQA) Framework
- Development of Harmonized Minimum Standards for the Prevention, Treatment and Management of Tuberculosis in the SADC Region
- Improvement of Maternal and Neonatal Health in Belize
- UNICEF Malawi and New York
- Cambodia Health Equity Funds
- El Salvador Strengthening Health Project Technical Assistance and Support Contract 2 (TASC2)
- Health Communications Initiative for the Prevention of Underage Alcohol Use
- Improving Medical Injection Safety in Namibia Project
- Improving Primary Health Care in Albania I and II (Pro Shëndetit)
- Quality in Health (Calidad en Salud)
- TASC II Tuberculosis/South Africa
- Technical Assistance and Support Contract (TASC2) Tuberculosis
- Technical Assistance and Support Contract 2 (TASC2): Global Health
- Cambodia Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)
- e-Health in Bangladesh: Survey on Strengthening Remote Health Service Facilities
- Integrated Technical Assistance Project
- PreventAIDS
- Quality Assurance Project (QAP) I, II, and III
- Romania Health Care Reform Program
- Rapid Expansion of Nutritional Recuperation Services for Malnourished Children in Nigerien Facilities
- Benin Integrated Family Health Project (PROSAF)
- Eritrea Technical Assistance and Support Contract 2 (TASC2)
- Nongovernmental Organization Service Delivery Program in Bangladesh
- Partnerships for Health Reform Project and Partners for Health Reformplus
- Weight Control Information Network
- Workforce Investment Act Adult Basic Skills
- The Maram Project: Healthier Palestinian Families
- Maternal and Child Health: Technical Assistance and Support Contract (TASC)
- Project for Regional Management of Health Services
- Women and Infant Health Strategy
- Education Programs of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Campaign
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Computer-Based Learning Tool
- Kazakhstan TB Project
- Quality Improvement System Design Consultancy
- Uganda: REDUCE II
- Uzbekistan Health Project
- Peru Consultancy in Quality Assurance and Improvement: Health and Basic Nutrition Project
Regions and Countries
Afghanistan, Africa, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Europe and Eurasia, Gaza, Georgia, Ghana, Global, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Latin America and the Caribbean, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Middle East, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North America, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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