Projects

Overview and Objectives URC, with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, National Clinical Laboratory Services, and other local organizations, is providing technical support to strengthen Swaziland’s HIV and tuberculosis (TB) lab services. A team of lab and quality improvement (QI) experts is assessing medical labs to identify areas for improvement and recommend quality improvement...

Overview and Objectives URC and partners provide technical assistance in strengthening TB control and prevention initiatives. URC focuses on providing assistance in strengthening TB care initiatives at the provincial, district, and community level, as well as strengthening the health system to manage the pressures exerted by the HIV and AIDS epidemic. While the program’s principal...

Overview and Objectives As part of a national effort to prevent underage alcohol use, the Underage Drinking Prevention Education Initiatives (UADPEI) project provides communication, logistical, and technical expertise to support the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) underage drinking prevention program. The program’s objectives are to: Achievements

For the Office of Migrant Education, provided opportunities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers to achieve a GED to transition to post-secondary education, training, career positions and/or enter the military. Geographic Focus: Adams, York and Lancaster counties and the Kennett Square area, all in Pennsylvania, and the city of Bridgeton, NJ.

URC worked with Ghana’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) to strengthen malaria prevention and control and expand successful malaria interventions nationwide...

Increased demand for access to quality health services. Built the capacity of public and private service delivery systems; expanded models for health financing; improved the quality and impact of maternal, neonatal and child health services; and strengthened the control of infectious diseases...

Provide technical support for building and expanding sustainable TB control and prevention programs in heavy-burden countries.

URC helped to monitor two types of health care-associated infections that often lead to significant morbidity and mortality: central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The project provided support to identify the factors that lead to CLABSI: infections acquired through an infusion into a major blood vessel or a vein near the heart....

Overview and Objectives URC provided technical assistance in six countries to monitor and evaluate programmatic data with the Global Fund’s (GF’s) Data Quality Audit Tool. The tool helps GF programs check that appropriate data management systems are in place, verify the quality of reported data for key indicators at sites, and use findings to identify...

Overview and Objectives CALIFORNIA – Developed an evaluation plan with full instrumentation to San Jose, CA, Summer Migrant Education Program and executed that evaluation plan with grades K-8 summer program sites (for the Department of Education, Migrant Education Program, Region 13). DELAWARE – Provided recruitment and canvassing support to the Delaware Migrant Education Program (for...