FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa on
General Quality of Care Improvement

Regional

• Transferring Ghana’s System of Evidence-based Health Program Development: Program for an Initial Exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso (completed)

Benin

• Intra-household Decisionmaking Regarding Health and Resource Allocation (completed)

Ghana

• Acceptability, Feasibility, and Affordability of the World Health Organization (WHO) Goal-Oriented Antenatal Care (ANC) Package in Ghana (completed)
• Health Sector Reforms and Implications for Reproductive Health Priority Setting (completed)
• Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Program (completed)

Kenya

• Feasibility, Effectiveness, and Cost of Models of Integrating Counseling and Testing for HIV Within Family Planning Services in Kenya (ongoing)
• Integrating Tuberculosis Case Finding into Focused Antenatal Care (ongoing)
• Managing and Preventing Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Among the Somali Community in Kenya (ongoing)
• Taking Critical Services to the Home: Scaling Up Home-based Maternal and Postnatal Care, Including Family Planning, Through Community Midwives (completed)
• Acceptability and Sustainability of the World Health Organization (WHO) Antenatal Care (ANC) Package in Kenya (completed)

Senegal

• Enhancing Utilization of the Findings from the Youth Reproductive Health Project (ongoing)
• Using Systematic Screening to Enhance Integration of Reproductive Health Service Delivery in Senegal (completed)
• Testing a Community-based Distribution (CBD) Approach to Reproductive Health Service Delivery in Senegal (completed)
• Documenting the Impact of Quality of Care on Women’s Reproductive Health in the Philippines and Senegal (completed)

South Africa

• Post-rape Care and HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis in Rural South Africa (ongoing)

• Creating Conditions for Implementing a Province-wide Comprehensive, Evidence-based Antenatal and Postnatal Care Package in KwaZulu-Natal (ongoing)
• Testing the Effectiveness of Community-based Strategies in Reducing Gender-based Violence and in Promoting Positive Male Involvement in Reproductive Health Activities (completed)
• Nursing Staff Dynamics and Implications for Maternal Health Provision in Public Health Facilities in the Context of HIV/AIDS (completed)
• Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness of an Improved and Integrated Package of Routine Services for Antenatal Clients Attending Public Clinics in South Africa (completed)

Tanzania

• Assessing the Introduction of Comprehensive Postabortion Care in Rural Tanzania (completed)

Uganda

• Global Agenda: Improving the Quality of Family Planning Services in Uganda (completed)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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See Also

• Population Council Quality of Care

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For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org

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