Projects

Overview and Objectives Provided technical support for construction and rehabilitation of 150 health centers and outpatient departments, antiretroviral therapy clinics, and a central laboratory and storage facility. Objectives included: Evaluate health facility designs to ensure compliance with best infection control practices given Lesotho’s disease profiles, health practice, geography, and climate conditions Monitor and evaluate the...

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...

Increased demand for and equitable 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.

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 Worked with the Ministry of Health, Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care, to improve the quality and use of HIV prevention and care services and strengthen the delivery of routine HIV-testing strategies. The project evaluated existing programs and provided support to improve diagnosis and treatment services for multi-drug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis....

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...

HealthPRO was USAID’s lead vehicle for providing technical assistance in health promotion and communication to the Philippine Department of Health, local government units, and others in promoting and sustaining healthy behaviors related to maternal, neonatal, and child health and nutrition; family planning, TB, and HIV/AIDS...

Researched potential demand for diagnostics of high morbidity and mortality diseases—HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, and acute lower respiratory illness—in several developing countries. The research examined issues surrounding the use of diagnostic tests: consumer willingness to use and pay for them, health care providers and program managers’ perceptions of their effectiveness, and factors...