HIV AIDS Archives

Technical and Field Report/Family Planning / Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy

Supply Chain Capacity Strengthening Program for Faith-based Drug Supply Organizations

2023

In Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership partnered with eight faith-based drug supply organizations to strengthen and reinforce their resiliency and improve the availability of high-quality and affordable family planning (FP) and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) commodities. This report shares the...

Technical and Field Report/Advocacy

Capacity Building Successes and Recommendations Through SCOPE

2023

Christian Connections for International Health partnered with World Relief through the Strengthening Community Health Outcomes Through Positive Engagement (SCOPE) project from 2019-2022 in three countries in a private-public sub-district and county-level effort to implement CHW capacity strengthening activities. Local partners included the Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK),...

Tool/Collection of Tools/Maternal Newborn and Child Health

Health and Nutrition Programming Guide by World Renew

2023

The Health and Nutrition Programming Guide was developed by World Renew to be a user-friendly guide on community-based programming for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and nutrition for use by staff who are not health experts. The guide brings together decades of learning in MNCH and nutrition...

Tool/Collection of Tools/Health Workers including Training

Compassion Measures Toolbox

2023

Compassion is increasingly recognized as a key indicator of quality care by patients, families, medical associations, healthcare providers, and governments. Research demonstrates that compassion is positively associated with a variety of patient-reported outcomes, the alleviation of healthcare provider burnout, positive health outcomes and improved quality of care ratings....

Tool/Collection of Tools/Immunization

Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities – Hindi Translation

2023

This is a Hindi translation of a toolkit designed to equip faith actors and related stakeholders—such as Ministries of Health, medical and scientific bodies, and non-profit organizations that partner with or work alongside faith actors—with the information and tools needed to raise awareness, reduce misinformation, and address barriers...

Technical and Field Report/Adolescents

Navigating Adolescence: Partnerships with Faith Actors

2023

CCIH was a cosponsor along with the Faith to Action Network, the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), UNFPA, FP2030, the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD), and World Vision of a side event on engaging faith communities in adolescent reproductive health at the...

Technical and Field Report/Adolescents

Lessons from Partnering with Faith-Based Organizations in Very Young Adolescent Programming

2023

This technical report shows how faith-based organizations LAMB and World Renew, with support from USAID’s MOMENTUM, have demonstrated the potential of community-based organizations to meaningfully address harmful attitudes on gender and sexual and reproductive health, as well as, behaviors, and norms among very young adolescents (VYA), their families,...

Journal Article/Adolescents

Strengthening Very Young Adolescents in Gender Equality in Bangladesh

2023

This peer-reviewed field report published in May 2023 in the Christian Journal for Global Health features the story of a young girl in Bangladesh who gained the confidence to refuse early marriage thanks to a program operated by faith-based organizations with funding from USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global...

Technical and Field Report/Family Planning / Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy

High Impact Practice Brief: Immediate Postpartum Family Planning

2023

This High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIP) brief summarizes the evidence and provides implementation tips for proactively offering family planning as part of care during and immediately after childbirth, often referred to as the immediate postpartum period. Offering services during the postpartum period is a common approach...

Blog or Essay/Immunization

2023 World Immunization Week and Resources for Faith Communities

2023

Vaccine hesitancy is a global challenge. This blog published for 2023 World Immunization Week shares a number of tools and other resources to engage faith communities to improve vaccination rates.

Blog or Essay/Financing

Will Global Health Become More, or Less, Global?

2023

In this blog post, CCIH Executive Director Doug Fountain examines trends in global health funding, how health systems and disease burdens are changing, and suggests four elements necessary for localization efforts to succeed; and how the faith community can be the bridge to reach them.

Tool/Collection of Tools/Emergency Response

When Your Whole World Changes

2023

This book produced by Biblica explores some common thoughts and feelings people have in difficult moments. It is especially helpful after disasters and emergencies. There are also some passages to read from the Bible that help with the difficult work of grieving and healing. Parts of the Bible...

Technical and Field Report/Water Sanitation and Hygiene

Scaling Up Effective Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services through Faith-based Health Care Networks

2023

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shocked health systems, demanding the urgent identification and prioritization of immediate health care facility needs. Beginning in August 2020, USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project implemented WASH improvements in 199 HCFs in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, including 44 faith-based...

Sermon Guide/Bible Study/Faith Leader and Lay Leader Resources

Family Planning Sermon and Messaging Guide for Faith Communities

2023

This guide is designed to support faith communities, congregations and religious leaders who want to improve family planning (FP) literacy and acceptance through sermons and other messaging opportunities. The sermon guide addresses how religious texts and sacred traditions can help break the silence on FP and correct misinformation....

Sermon Guide/Bible Study/Faith Leader and Lay Leader Resources

SCOPE COVID-19 Project

2023

The Strengthening Community Health Outcomes through Positive Engagement (SCOPE) COVID-19 Project is an ongoing USAID-funded New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, and Rwanda implemented in partnership with local ministries of health. SCOPE COVID-19 is accelerating widespread and equitable access to...

Tool/Collection of Tools/Family Planning / Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy

Partnership Action Plan Template

2023

The Partnership Action Plan Template is a guiding framework for effective collaboration and results focused family planning partnerships. Gather your partners from CSOs, faith actors, donors, policymakers, etc. to determine what your challenges are in addressing FP with faith actors, how to address the challenges, resources needed, who...

Tool/Collection of Tools/Faith Leader and Lay Leader Resources

Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities

2023

This toolkit is designed to equip faith actors and related stakeholders—such as Ministries of Health, medical and scientific bodies, and non-profit organizations that partner with or work alongside faith actors—with the information and tools needed to raise awareness, reduce misinformation, and address barriers that prevent faith communities in...

Video (Including Training Videos)/Integration of Faith and Health

Vocational Discernment

2023

This webinar by ICMDA outlines an approach to discerning your calling.

Journal Article/Quality

Teaching quality improvement in Tanzania: a model of inter-professional partnership for global health development

2023

In this article from the Christian Journal for Global Health, the authors describe the evolving details of planning, budgeting, implementing, and evaluating an interdisciplinary quality improvement educational initiative.

All Types/Integration of Faith and Health

Six Ways Young Professionals Can Prepare for a Global Job

2023

This article by Scatter Global walks readers through practical tips when looking for a global job, including evaluating their spiritual gifts, passions, abilities, personalities, experiences, social network, and social media profile and considering global and local opportunities such as study abroad and internships.

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Supply Chain Capacity Strengthening Program for Faith-based Drug Supply Organizations

Capacity Building Successes and Recommendations Through SCOPE

Health and Nutrition Programming Guide by World Renew

Compassion Measures Toolbox

Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities – Hindi Translation

Navigating Adolescence: Partnerships with Faith Actors

Lessons from Partnering with Faith-Based Organizations in Very Young Adolescent Programming

Strengthening Very Young Adolescents in Gender Equality in Bangladesh

High Impact Practice Brief: Immediate Postpartum Family Planning

2023 World Immunization Week and Resources for Faith Communities

Will Global Health Become More, or Less, Global?

When Your Whole World Changes

Scaling Up Effective Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services through Faith-based Health Care Networks

Family Planning Sermon and Messaging Guide for Faith Communities

SCOPE COVID-19 Project

Partnership Action Plan Template

Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities

Vocational Discernment

Teaching quality improvement in Tanzania: a model of inter-professional partnership for global health development

Six Ways Young Professionals Can Prepare for a Global Job

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