19 April 2013 This sixth annual World Malaria Day, the child health team of USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) is highlighting its contributions to scaling up prevention and treatment of malaria, one of three largest preventable causes of death among children under five, in the slideshow below. These contributions supported by USAID and PMI include:
17 April 2013 For the past three years, USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Paraguay, have implemented a successful program in the Central and Alto Parana Regions of the country.
28 March 2013 This week, MCHIP helped to celebrate the launch of a new journal, Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP), at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The peer-reviewed, open-access journal is published by USAID, the Knowledge for Health project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, and the Department of Global Health at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
6 November 2012 On 23 July 2012 in Washington, D.C., a satellite event at the 19th International AIDS Conference brought together African political and traditional leaders as well as key figures in the international HIV response. This unique group gathered to share their views on the challenges and solutions to Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in East and Southern Africa.
2 August 2012 In Africa most people think of malaria, AIDS, and childbirth as leading causes of death, but there is a silent killer that is plaguing the continent: cervical cancer. Watch the video from Jhpiego below to learn more about how to prevent these needless deaths.
7 May 2012 In honor of Mother's Day, please take a moment to watch the video below created by MCHIP partner Jhpiego. Jhpiego thanks those who work every day to help prevent the needless deaths of women around the world!
1 May 2012 During MCHIP’s Asia Regional Meeting in Dhaka this month, maternal health leaders and experts, program managers and health providers will be discussing causes of maternal deaths – postpartum hemorrhage and preeclampsia/eclampsia among them – and interventions to increase survival.
When the Double R Spring Intern Team heard about MCHIP's "Join me on the Bridge Campaign," they didn't hesitate to join the march, equipment in hand!    On March 8th--International Women’s Day--they filmed MCHIP staff and friends as we joined Women for Women International and thousands of others to show our support for women around the world who lack access to the health services we so often take for granted.   Check out their video below:
This footage, which aired on local television, was filmed during the Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R) ceremonies for four facilities in the N'Zérékoré region of southeastern Guinea. (SBM-R is the Jhpiego’s approach to improving the performance and quality of health services.)
The video below highlights the Healthy Fertility Study, an integrated, community-based family planning (FP)/maternal and newborn health service delivery program. Since 2007, community health workers have been helping women in Sylhet district, Bangladesh avoid unplanned pregnancies as part of the Study.