Search results for:

Developing a mobile phone app that uses online and offline data for screening, analysis, management and delivery of intervention services for postpartum depression in rural areas. The app will use voice to deliver the intervention and integrate voice-based social network to create linkages to care. Goals include screening 2500 new mothers; increased awareness of postpartum depression in at-risk women;…

Totohealth is delivering "The World Starts With Me" sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information via SMS text messages to students and teachers at secondary schools in Kenya. The World Starts With Me (WSWM) curriculum developed by Rutgers, will be converted into SMSs (questions and answers) and offered to students in selected schools in 3 counties in Kenya (urban, semi-urban and rural). The SMS platform allows for two-way communication, permitting students and teachers to receive accurate, confidential, and non-judgmental answers, within 24 hours. This is an innovative adaptation responding to the local context in…

Issue Basic resources are scare within conflict areas and marginalized communities in Palestine. Lack of clean water and transportation has contributed to poor feminine hygiene practices which have, in turn, harmed women’s reproductive health. Though yeast infections are common, in Palestine doctors often do not distinguish between yeast and bacterial infections in women. This results…distributed. The project targeted women of reproductive age in Area C of the West Bank, due to the region’s high birth rates, limited medical accessibility, low water supply, and low income. These targeted communities also serve as a hub for smaller neighboring communities. Mobile health clinics were developed. Clinics provided resources for feminine hygiene including: educational workshops, medical products, medical consultations, and counselling. Through these clinics, a…

…mountainous area of Lesotho. Mothers and other caregivers will learn parenting behaviour and developmental interactions during postnatal clinic and home visits by village health workers, improving access for this hard-to-reach population. This integration addresses multiple risk factors for childhood development where ECD services are currently unavailable. The potential impact will be to demonstrate the feasibility of a low-cost, preventative implementation model to reduce the risk of developmental delays and strengthen caregivers’ knowledge and practices.

Fresh Life Initiative builds healthy, prosperous communities by making safe sanitation, accessible and affordable for Nairobi County and residents of its urban slums. To achieve this, Fresh Life Initative takes an innovative value-chain approach to solve the sanitation challenge in slums with poor or no access to sewer systems. They do so by building a …

This intervention integrates evidence-based approaches for maternal, newborn and child health (from conception through age two) through two components: (1) An integrated hospital-to-home healthcare model utilizing community health workers (CHWs) for monitoring and increasing use of services; maternal and neonatal health knowledge; self-efficacy; social support; and emergency planning among mothers; and (2) Continuous surveillance of all pregnancies and children via an integrated electronic health record. The project was first developed for last-mile communities that are most in need of access to services.

The project tests the creation of a social enterprise that will enable the delivery of alternative mental health treatment to children in the Philippines with mood disorders. This enterprise, ultimately national in scope, will hire and train para-professional staff, and provide treatment on a sliding scale of payments in which poorer clients would pay very little for their care. As a first step, in a trial to be carried out by a team at the Bulatao Center for Psychology Services at Ateneo de Manila University,…

In low-income countries, children with developmental disorders (such as intellectual disability and autism) are neglected because of stigma attached to such disorders, lack of awareness in families, and a dearth of specialist facilities. This project aims to organize, train and empower family members, so they can work together, and alongside primary health care, specialist and voluntary agencies to improve the lives of such children. This project will investigate how such networks can be set up in a rural community in Pakistan, develop mobile-tech assisted programmes for their training and supervision, and evaluate their impact on the outcomes of children with developmental disorders and families.

Pakistan is coping with a large school dropout rate. A proven strategy to reduce this number is enrolment in high-quality preschool programs that bolster young children’s school readiness. With funding from Saving Brains, Aga Khan University is developing a preschool curriculum supported by a community and district government engagement strategy. This interactive school readiness curriculum, which is delivered by “Community Youth Leaders,” aged 18 to 24, will ease the…

…district (population 322,000) suffer mental health problems. However, because mental health is accorded low priority by government and other agencies, people in need of help today resort to uninformed traditional and faith healers. Under this project, primary healthcare workers will be trained to screen for disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, alcohol and drug abuse, and epilepsy, referring patients as required to additional help and user groups, and sensitising local communities to mental health issues. Innovations include support to trauma victims by community health workers and greater access to medicines through the creation of…