Strengthening Laboratory Capacity for Malaria Diagnosis

In malaria-endemic countries, timely and accurate malaria diagnosis is essential for effective case management. To strengthen laboratory services and malaria diagnosis, the Mozambique Integrated Malaria Program (IMaP), a five-year USAID-funded project led by Chemonics International Inc., implemented a variety of capacity building activities.

Investment in Malaria Case Management Saves Lives

In malaria-endemic countries, fever is by far the most common reason for visits to health facilities. In Mozambique, malaria remains the most important public health problem. In collaboration with Mozambique’s National Malaria Control Program and its other development and technical partners, Chemonics International led the USAID Integrated Malaria Program (IMaP). The program worked at the…

Engaging the Private Sector to Achieve Health Outcomes

Shrinking donor budgets, renewed calls for localization, and countries’ desire to move away from donor dependence require new ways of approaching development. This resource details initiatives and projects that illustrate the efforts and achievements of Chemonics in the private sector engagement space.

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Supporting Health and Care Workers

This action brief was prepared for the World Health Organization Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. Civil society organizations and wider networks led and co-developed a series of three action briefs to frame discussions on the advocacy agenda. The civil society action briefs are linked to each of the three Fifth Global Forum…

Community Health Workers Offer Solutions to Extend Malaria Services

This post originally appeared in The Frontline Health Workers Coalition. To end malaria, no one can be left behind. However, despite great strides in reducing malaria incidence and deaths, some populations remain unreached. Trained community health workers, because of where they live and the trust people have in them, are one of the best cadres to…

Community Health Workers Extend Reach to Prevent Malaria in Nigeria

When floods hit the central Nigerian city of Makurdi during the recent rainy season, Margaret Beetsel knew her work as a community health worker would be more difficult, but not impossible. So, she climbed into a canoe and made her rounds, delivering medicine to eligible children to help prevent severe, and often deadly, malaria. Beetsel,…

USAID Senegal Building a Resilient Health System

The United States Agency of International Development (USAID) Senegal Building a Resilient Health System (BRHS) activity supports the Government of Senegal (GOS) and its Ministry of Health and Social Action (MSAS) to make meaningful and sustainable improvements to its country’s health system. The first of three components under USAID’s “Improving Health Status and Human Capital…

International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP2022)

ICFP2022 brought together more than 3,500 participants from at least 125 countries for the world’s largest scientific conference focused on family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights from November 14-17, 2022, in Pattaya, Thailand. Twenty Chemonics staff participated at the conference, representing work Chemonics conducted in Angola, Bangladesh, Niger, Rwanda, the West African…

Gender and Health

Chemonics is committed to building gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming by understanding and addressing the context-specific social norms, power structures, and limitations on access to resources that impact people and communities.

HRH2030 Health Worker Life Cycle Approach

To frame the work of the Chemonics-led USAID Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) country programs, we created the Health Worker Life Cycle Approach. This approach helps ensure that Chemonics implements evidence- and policy-based strategies to build, manage, and optimize human resources for health (HRH) in countries where we work. We work with stakeholders…