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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
New USAID Health Information Project Awarded to Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health has won a $34.6 million dollar award
from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a new five-year health knowledge management project for
developing countries. JHU/CCP will partner with Family Health International (FHI) and Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and receive
technical assistance from GoogleTM.
The K4H team is establishing a network of health organizations in developing countries to:
- Identify and define field-based information needs.
- Facilitate knowledge-sharing to create effective publications, tools, and job aids.
- Contribute to a shared knowledge base on family planning/reproductive health and other global health topics.
- Adapt, translate, and disseminate health information products.
Global Health Technical Brief on Postabortion Care in Senegal and Tanzania Posted
How many women die from abortion-related complications each year? (Hint: These deaths account for 13% of maternal deaths globally.)
According to the latest Global Health Technical Brief prepared by Carolyn Curtis, Public Health Specialist with USAID's Office of
Global Health, between 10 and 50 percent of women who undergo abortions need medical care for life. The two-page Brief discusses
how programs in Sengal and Tanzania expanded access to post abortion care by decentralizing services. Find out what the evaluation
of the programs revealed with regard to costs, training, provider bias, access, referral procedures, contraceptive use, and more.
Download the Brief.
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