Management Sciences for Health

Date of Operation: 2012 - 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: Jhpiego

Other Implementing Partners: Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Ethiopia Midwives Association (EMA), Ethiopia Association of Anesthetists (EAA) and Open University

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

• Address key health human resource shortages to achieve maternal, neonatal and child health goals, specifically reduce infectious diseases such as malaria, TB, HIV/AIDs and child and maternal deaths.

Project Objectives:

• Improve health management, regulatory and governance systems including retention, recruitment and deployment 
• Expand availability of midwives, anesthetists, health extension workers 
• Strengthen educational institutions and faculty and quality of health worker training

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Date of Operation: 2008 – 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: Management Sciences for Health

Regions of Operation: Oromia

Goal:

Provide pharmaceutical management system strengthening support to implement malaria treatment programs at national and regional health facility levels.

Objectives:

• Provide technical, strategic, managerial and operational support to implement and strengthen anti-malaria drug management activities in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, thereby contributing to the President's Malaria Inititive (PMI) goal of a achieving a 70 percent reduction in malaria-associated mortality by 2013.

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Date of Operation: 2006 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Management Sciences for Health

Other Implementing Partners (within Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM) worldwide):  John Snow, Inc. Research and Training Institute (JSI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), 3i Infotech (3i), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Crown Agents (Crown), The Fuel Logistics Group (Pty) Limited (FUEL), i+ Solutions, The Manoff Group, Inc. (Manoff), Northrop Grumman Information Technology, UPS Supply Chain Solutions (UPS), Voxiva (Voxiva)

Other Implementing Partners within Ethiopia: USAID | DELIVER, CDC, Clinton Health Initiative (CHAI), Population Services International (PSI), Federal Ministry of Health Pharamaceutical Fund and Supply Agency, Federal Ministry of Health HAPPCO, EHNRI, Save the Children, WHO, UNICEF, WFP, World Vision, UNFPA

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV)

Other Implementing Partners: World Health Organization (WHO), Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve case detection and treatment success rates of TB in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

• Assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in scaling up of drug management of Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)
• Strengthen laboratory networking
• Assist the GoE in the coordination of the TB control program

Description:

TB CARE I assists the GoE in addressing the country’s TB-specific challenges, including extremely low case detection, the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, and TB/HIV co-infection. To address these challenges, TB CARE I provides support on a national level in four major technical areas:

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: Management Sciences for Health

Other Implementing Partners: PATH, Alert, and the Kenya Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (KAPTLD)

Regions of Operation: Amhara and Oromia

Goal:

Assist local health offices in prevention and control of TB to reduce mortality and morbidity due to TB

Project Objectives:

• Expand and enhance Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS)
• Assist selected zones in reaching case detection of 70% and exceed treatment success rate of 85%
• Assist local health offices in establishing a courier system to transport samples of suspected Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB cases to culture centers and deliver reports back to patients

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