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Global goals to end preventable deaths of women and children are necessarily ambitious, and they are achievable. We focus on supporting stakeholders to identify and address key bottlenecks in delivery of essential health services for women and children, most notably the poor and hard-to-reach. Our approach leverages and integrates local resources — public, private, and civil society — to expand access to quality, high impact services along the care continuum.

The Long Road to Maternal Health Access

The Tanzania Council for Social Development helped citizens advocate for a local maternity ward in Kibaigwa, Tanzania.

Messages for Life

The USAID Communications Support for Health project assists the government of Zambia in addressing health-related issues such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal/child health, and family planning/reproductive health.

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Nathalie Albrow

Project Management Director, Global Health Division

René Berger

Senior Vice President, USAID Global Health and Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project IDIQ Director

Jennifer Chavez

Task Order Director, USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project

Rachel Deussom

Technical Director, Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) Program

Michelle Gardner

Managing Director, USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project Country Programs

Alix J. Harou

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Improving Health through Digitized Logistics Information

Reliable availability of maternal, neonatal, and child health products in Pakistan is critical. A digitized and integrated Health Logistics Management Information Systems (HLMIS) can improve conditions.

Cutting-edge Technologies in Global Health Supply Chains

To improve access to high-quality health products worldwide, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project employs cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices to make global health supply chains more efficient and reach more people.

Catalyzing Behavioral Change

High-impact communications campaigns transformed awareness and prevention of health challenges in Zambian communities.

Delivering Family Health Services in Rwanda

Rwanda made great strides in improving its previously faltering health care system, but family health services still had a long way to go.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Treatment in Kenya

Strengthening pharmaceutical supply chains in Kenya made it possible to plan more effectively for the needs of HIV/AIDS patients and to treat a larger population.

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Safe Blood: The Forgotten Commodity for Maternal, Newborn Health

Introduction from Emma Clark, maternal, newborn, and child health technical director at Chemonics The upcoming World Blood Donor Day on June 14 presents an important opportunity to highlight how critical, yet persistently overlooked, blood products are in the global quest to end preventable maternal mortality. Globally, postpartum hemorrhage — or excessive bleeding after birth —…

Tragic but Not Unique: Maternal Death in a Rural Clinic

At 1 a.m., Winnie, the midwife at a small health clinic in a rural town in Uganda, was startled awake when the security guard from the clinic pounded on her door—a woman had arrived in labor. When Winnie arrived at the facility, she was surprised to see Clara, a young woman expecting her first baby…

News: Chemonics Announces New Senior Vice President Julie Becker

Chemonics International has named Julie Becker as senior vice president of its Global Health Division. Ms. Becker brings 25 years of experience in the nonprofit and private sectors, with on-the-ground experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.  Julie will lead the firm’s portfolio of health-focused projects in more than…

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Joining Forces to Strengthen the Health and Social Services Systems

This post was adapted from one that originally appeared on the USAID HRH2030 program’s website. The numbers are staggering. One billion children under age 18 experience some form of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. With more than 2 billion children in the world, that means one child in every two is exposed to harmful situations…

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Women’s Groups Leading the Way Towards Self-Reliance in Mali

On a recent visit to a rural village in Dioila district, part of the Koulikoro region in Mali, I met with the local women’s group to discuss how to promote family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) and how to increase access to these services in their community. There, surrounded by more than 100 volunteers who…

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3 Ways to Combat Aggressive Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes

Between the 1930s and 1970s, breastfeeding rates in developed countries declined 56 percent, caused in large part to aggressive advertising and promotion of breast milk substitutes. Companies selling formula used aggressive marketing tactics to make new mothers and health-care workers switch from exclusive breastfeeding, which is recommended by the WHO and UNICEF for the first…

A Voice for Midwives is a Voice for Progress

Several years ago, a colleague was telling me about his efforts to introduce a new family planning method in one of the countries he worked in. “The women just weren’t interested in this method,” he said, frustrated. Initially, he and his team of experts couldn’t figure out why. They’d done a lot of legwork to…

We Have the Tools to Reach “Zero Malaria” in Pregnancy

Malaria is a silent killer and a health risk for many around the world. It causes about half a million deaths each year, with over 90 percent of those occurring in sub-Saharan Africa alone. As the third most common cause of death in women of reproductive age in Africa, malaria poses increased risk for pregnant…

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Maternal Mortality Review Committees Ask “Why” to Prevent Maternal Deaths

Late one night about a year ago, I got the call no health care worker ever wants to receive. The man left a heart-stopping message with my midwifery practice’s answering service saying that our patient — his previously healthy wife — and their unborn child had just abruptly passed away at another Washington, D.C.-area hospital.…

News: GHSC-PSM’s Latest Report Shows Strong and Steady On-time Delivery Rates, Expansion of In-country Presence to 33 Field Offices

The USAID GHSC-PSM project recently published a report highlighting the project’s achievements in the third quarter of FY2018 (April 1 to June 30, 2018). GHSC-PSM remains committed to operating a global supply chain that is focused on a safe, reliable, and continuous supply of life-saving health commodities to those who need them most. On the…

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International Day of the Midwife: Promoting Diversity to Reduce Disparities in Maternal Health

A recent article highlighted the staggering disparities that persist in maternal and neonatal outcomes in America. The disparities are in part because of societal and racial bias within the health-care system. In New York, black women are four times more likely than white women to die in childbirth. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are life-threatening pregnancy-related conditions that are sixty percent more…

Innovations for Maternal and Newborn Health: Getting from “Great Ideas” to “Global Lifesavers”

Think we’ve made progress in maternal and newborn health (MNH) in the past 30 years? You’re right: Maternal mortality has dropped from 550,000 deaths due to pregnancy-related causes a year to 303,000, and newborn mortality from 4.4 million to 2.7 million newborns each year. But if you think that still sounds like a lot of…

What World Breastfeeding Week Means for These Women

It’s World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), so I should probably start by saying: I’m a huge advocate of breastfeeding. It can be a lovely way for a mother and baby to bond, and it offers a wonderful source of nutrition to a growing infant. It appears to have many benefits to mothers and babies and a positive impact on…

My Mundane Professional Association Meeting is a Luxury Most Midwives Can Only Imagine

After work, once every couple of months, I have the luxury of making my way across town to the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Washington, D.C. Affiliate meeting to spend a couple of hours eating lukewarm Peruvian chicken and discussing issues affecting midwives at the local and national level. It’s not the meetings themselves that…

The Next Mother I Meet

The slender young woman was slumped on the metal chair, her malnourished baby in her arms. “I have no milk,” she said, pulling her breast out of her shirt. “I just give him water because it is so hot.” As a Peace Corps volunteer in those days, I struggled in my halting Hausa to explain…

Reflection on APHA 2015: Preparing Health Systems for Policy Change

The theme of this year’s American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting, hosted in Chicago, was “Health in All Policies” (HiAP). This theme emphasized the need for policymakers in all sectors to recognize that environments where we live, work, and attend school have serious implications on health outcomes. Julián Castro, the U.S. Secretary of Housing…

News: Chemonics Presents at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting

What exactly is public health and how does it shape relevant issues such as climate change and sustainable agriculture? The American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting, which takes place October 31 – November 4 in Chicago, Illinois, takes a closer look at the role that public health plays across different political, environmental, social, and economic…

Know Your SDGs: Where is Health in the Sustainable Development Goals?

2015 is a significant year for the future of international development. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are not only expiring, but also consultations for the incoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are rapidly taking place. The SDGs are continuing the MDGs with 17 proposed goals, to be hashed out at the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly…

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