Rescued from Cervical Cancer by STAR-E

Mildred Akinyi is 33 years old and living with HIV. Like many women, Akinyi did not know she had cervical cancer until she was diagnosed during a screening exercise organized by STAR-E for women living with HIV/AIDS. Read more.

Campaigning to Improve Maternal Health at Rural Kenyan Hospital 

A hospital management team from Kenya successfully launched an innovative public awareness campaign highlighting the health benefits for mother and child of in-hospital delivery. Read more.

SCMS: Providing Life-Saving Medicines in Haiti

Yvonise, a mother of four children, is one of 2,200 patients enrolled in the HIV/AIDS program at Hôpital Immaculée Conception de Port-de-Paix in Haiti. Read More.

Community Outreach Workers: Saving Lives Door to Door 

Aynalem Bekele has spent her 26-year-old life in Ethiopia struggling to survive -- until she met two community outreach workers from USAID's HIV/AIDS Care and Support Program. Read more.

Fostering Economic Opportunity for Nigeria's HIV-Positive Women

An MSH-led project has helped establish HIV support groups that are providing income-generating opportunities for participants, 80 percent of whom are women. Read More. 

Bangladesh Supply Chain Information Portal Receives Two Digital Innovation Awards

The Directorate General of Family Planning's new Supply Chain Information Portal (SCIP) received two prestigious awards at Bangladesh's Digital Innovation Fair in July 2011. Read more.

Giving Mothers a Chance at Safe Deliveries in South Sudan

Suzanna Ile is a 26-year old woman from Lokiliri Payam in South Sudan. A community midwife at Lokiliri Primary Healthcare Centre identified Suzanna's high risk pregnancy and discussed alternative delivery options with her. Read more.

Film Boosts HIV Prevention Messages

USAID, in partnership with Management Sciences for Health, helped produce Inside Story, a docudrama created for African audiences, that brings together science and fiction to tell the powerful tale of one man's fight against HIV and AIDS. Read more.

Strategic Pharmaceutical Management Information System for TB in the Dominican Republic

Health program supply managers frequently find themselves seeking the answers to two questions: (1) How many months' supply of medicines do I have in my warehouse? and (2) Is it time for me to begin my procurement process? Read more.

Saving Lives by Treating Diarrhea with ORS and Zinc

Taj Bibi sits nursing her 5-month-old baby in the kitchen of her home in the village of Sartal in Takhar province in Afghanistan's north. Bibi's first two children died -- one of them from severe diarrhea. Read more.

Donation of Bicycles Increases Family Planning Outreach in Democratic Republic of Congo 

For many people in rural communities in the developing world, information about contraceptives comes from community-based distribution agents, locally-based individuals trained in family planning. Read more.

Bangladesh Improving Family Planning Systems with UIMS

Madaripur Sadar is one of 483 upazilas (or sub-districts) in Bangladesh that have installed the Upazila Inventory Management System (UIMS) to help maintain store inventory and automate supply planning, issue voucher preparation, and monthly reporting. Read more.