Projects

Photo credit: URC The Challenge As part of its ambition to join the European Union (EU), the Government of Romania recognized that the country needed to undergo a series of health sector reforms to meet the quality standards for health care that are utilized in Western European countries such as England and France and make...

The Challenge Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health problem in Georgia. Despite significant progress in the implementation of TB control interventions during the last decade, the country faces a number of important challenges that require further intensified and streamlined efforts to effectively control the epidemic by securing universal access to prevention, diagnosis and treatment...

This project aimed to improve health services for Albanian citizens by focusing on corruption and encouraging cooperation among selected independent government institutions, civil society organizations, and media to encourage more responsible governance in the health sector...

The Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD) Project is a flexible global implementation science (IS) partnership mechanism that responds to emerging USAID health and development priorities...

Developed a concept note to serve as a road map for establishing and operating a private, not-for-profit family medicine clinic offering primary health care services at an affordable cost to labor migrants in Moscow Oblast, Russia.

ASSIST built on the work of the USAID Health Care Improvement Project. ASSIST operated in over 40 countries, supporting quality improvement efforts for HIV and AIDS, MNCH, malaria, tuberculosis, Zika, orphans and vulnerable children, and non-communicable disease services at both facility and community levels...

The Challenge The Georgian health system is rapidly undertaking several policy and programmatic changes, including large-scale privatization of health care infrastructure, such as general hospitals and primary care facilities. Within this changing system, reduce the number of TB and MDR-TB cases in Georgia. Overview and Objectives URC worked to reduce the number of TB cases...

TB CARE II complemented existing and planned projects in the USAID Bureau for Global Health to provide leadership and support to national TB programs (NTPs) and other in-country partners. The project accelerated the implementation of TB directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS)...

HCI directly examined how neglected health care processes function and developed practical ways to help health workers and managers improve them. HCI provided global technical leadership and expertise to improve health care delivery and health workforce capacity and performance in USAID-assisted countries...

Overview and Objectives Helped public sector agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) improve access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services needed by most-at-risk populations and to build institutional capacity to deliver high-quality services to special-risk groups. The project’s overall goals and objectives were to: (1) increase access to and demand for HIV/AIDS services among most-at-risk populations...