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To improve TB screening in Non ART adults and pediatrics to 75%in 3 months

Region and Country: Nigeria

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection

Improvement Method: Reminders and job aids
Implementing Kangaroo Mother Care in El Salvador

Region and Country: El Salvador

Improvement Topic: Low birth weight/kangaroo care/skin-to-skin

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Training | Spreading Improvement
Medical Record Audit: Tool for Improvement of Quality Healthcare in a Paediatric Unit of a Chilean Hospital

Region and Country: Chile

Improvement Topic: Monitoring and evaluation

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback
The prevention, treatment and care for HIV/AIDS through the community participation.

Region and Country: Nigeria

Improvement Topic: Community involvement

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up
Applying QI approaches to improve maternal Health care in 10 rural health facilities of Mid western Uganda.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Utilizing lay volunteers to increase access to PMTCT services. The experience of Kidera Health Centre IV

Region and Country: Developing Countries | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | PMTCT

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Client engagement
Application of QI to design an electronic registration system in Togliatt, Russia

Region and Country: Russia

Improvement Topic: Cross-cutting

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
RETENTION OF CLIENTS TAKING HAART IN CARE IN ARUA HOSPITAL AIDS PROGRAM /ART CLINIC, WEST NILE REGION | UGANDA

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Client engagement | Organization of work
Implementing alternative distribution points to rural communities in the Langeberg Sub-district | South Africa

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Community involvement

Improvement Method: Client engagement
Improving HIV clinic efficiency through reducing client waiting time in Virika Hospital HIV Clinic | Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback
Effectively Linking Communities and Facilities in Assam, India

Region and Country: Asia | India

Improvement Topic: CHW role | Community health workers | Community involvement | Country ownership | Infant and young child feeding | Non-communicable diseases | Nutrition | Program design | Referral systems | Scaling up | Training

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives | Improvement models/methodologies | Spread and scale-up | Training | Spreading Improvement
Improving Infection Control through Hand Hygiene at Tygerberg Academic Hospital

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Infection control and prevention

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback
IMPROVING UPTAKE OF MALARIA PREVENTION METHODS IN GOKWE NORTH - BURURE AREA

Region and Country: Zimbabwe

Improvement Topic: Home-based management of malaria | Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) | Malaria

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
PROMPT MALARIA DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IN KASHIMA AND CHAMBI RURAL HEALTH CENTRES IN NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE IN ZAMBIA

Region and Country: Zambia

Improvement Topic: Home-based management of malaria | Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) | Intermittent preventive treatment | Malaria case management | Malaria diagnosis | Malaria in pregnancy | Malaria treatment in adults | Malaria treatment in children | Rapid diagnostic test

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Plan TBCero: A Successful Patient-Centered Strategy in a High Tuberculosis and Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Incidence Area in Lima, Peru

Region and Country: Peru

Improvement Topic: Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Improving Pharmaceutical Service in the Primary Healthcare Sector Through the Training of Pharmacist Assistants

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Adverse events | Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | At-risk populations | Employee Engagement | Family planning | FP-HIV integration | HIV counseling and testing | HIV infection prevention/universal precautions | HIV prevention/positive prevention | HIV-TB | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Infection control and prevention | Isoniazid preventive therapy | Monitoring and evaluation | Motivation/incentives | Pediatric HIV/AIDS | Performance evaluation | Performance management | Post-exposure prophylaxis | Program design | Program evaluation | Program management | Recognition/remuneration | Recruitment | Retention in care | Retention of health workers/reducing attrition | Scaling up | Stigma | Supervision | Sustainability | Task shifting | TB-HIV | Training | Waste management

Improvement Method: Certification | Employee engagement | Improvement models/methodologies | Licensing | Organization of work | Spread and scale-up | Supervision | Training | Spreading Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving Sanitation and Hygiene through Community Participation, Ganda Community, Bindura District Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Zimbabwe

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Community involvement | Cross-cutting

Improvement Method:
Existing Education System as a channel for the Improvement of Vitamin A Supplementation Uptake in Njiru Dispensary, Nairobi Province Kenya

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Micronutrient supplementation

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
MSM Behaviour Monitoring as a component of second generation surveillance

Region and Country: Tajikistan

Improvement Topic: HIV prevention/positive prevention

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
Results of conducted trainings on prevention of HIV infection among health care workers

Region and Country: Tajikistan

Improvement Topic: Post-exposure prophylaxis

Improvement Method: Training
Retaining doctors in deep rural areas in South Africa through “marriage counsellors” who work to negotiate the relationships between management and doctors.

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Community involvement | Employee Engagement | Equipment/supplies | HIV/AIDS | Program design | Program management | Recruitment | Retention of health workers/reducing attrition | Scaling up | Service integration | Sustainability | Training

Improvement Method: Certification | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Healthy Lifestyle Family-Based Intervention for Iraqi and Jordanian Familes in Jordan

Region and Country: Jordan

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Chronic conditions | Non-communicable diseases | Nutrition | Prevention

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Spread and scale-up | Training
Orientation and ongoing support as a retention tool for foreign-qualified healthcare professionals in rural and underserved healthcare facilities in South Africa

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Program design | Program management | Retention of health workers/reducing attrition | Sustainability

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving the uptake of HIV services among adolescents in a rural public health facility. The experience of Buyinja health centre IV

Region and Country: Developing Countries

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing

Improvement Method: Organization of work
Increasing uptake for PMTCT-EID services in a rural setting. A case of Kamuli district, Uganda

Region and Country: Developing Countries | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | PMTCT

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Standards and evidence-based guidelines
Single Use Obstetrical Emergency Medical Kits to Reduce Maternal Mortality, at the Riley Mother and Baby Hospital, Eldoret Kenya.

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Emergency obstetric care

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Reducing missed appointments and number of lost clients through community tracking using PHAS and zoning to ease follow-up

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback | Client engagement | Organization of work
Applying an Improvement Process to a Difficult Long-Term Problem of Gas Cylinder Supply Yields Positive Results for the Masaka District, Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: Community involvement | Documentation/data collection | Employee Engagement | Equipment/supplies | Immunization | Monitoring and evaluation | Sustainability

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement | Client engagement | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Improvement models/methodologies | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement
ELIMINATING IGNORANCE AMONG THE LOCAL POPULATION ABOUT HEALTH INFORMATION THROUGH A TV HEALTH PROGRAMME IN UGANDA.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Cross-cutting

Improvement Method: Spreading Improvement
Strengthening of Family Planning Service Delivery through 18 Urban Health Centers (UHCs) in 2 districts of Uttarakhand

Region and Country: India

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Documentation/data collection | Family planning | Hand hygiene | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Infection control and prevention | Motivation/incentives | Patient Safety | Performance evaluation | Performance management | Policy | Program management | Recognition/remuneration | Service integration | Supervision | Sustainability | Task definition | Training | Waste management

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement collaboratives | Improvement models/methodologies | Institutionalization | Performance-based incentives | Reminders and job aids | Spread and scale-up | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Supervision | Training | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Spreading Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
IMPROVEMENT IN TB CASE DETECTION USING COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS.

Region and Country: Nigeria

Improvement Topic: TB case finding and diagnosis

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE "AMISTAD-JAPÓN HOSPITAL" BLOOD BANK IN GUATEMALA

Region and Country: Central America and the Caribbean | Guatemala

Improvement Topic: Blood safety | HIV laboratory services | Patient Safety | Stigma | Waste management

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Institutionalization | Training | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
INTEGRATING ACSM INTO COMMUNITY SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE EARLY TB DETECTION AND STIGMA REDUCTION

Region and Country: Nigeria

Improvement Topic: Community involvement | Sustainability | TB case finding and diagnosis | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Breaking barriers to access to Family planning in Northern Nigeria

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Nigeria

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Community involvement | Family planning | Service integration

Improvement Method: Client engagement | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives
USING INNOVATION TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO AAFB MICROSCOPY IN UGENYA DISTRICT, KENYA

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Directly observed treatment, DOTS | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Improve the Competencies of Health Workers through Training and Resources for Continuing Education

Region and Country: Jordan

Improvement Topic: Cross-cutting | Documentation/data collection | Employee Engagement | Hand hygiene | Infection control and prevention | Patient Safety | Performance evaluation | Training | Waste management

Improvement Method: Accreditation | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Applying the quality improvement approach to linkage of HIV-positive mothers’ into HIV care: Experiences from Kyarusozi Health Center IV

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: PMTCT

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
Improving adherence to ART for better ART Clinical outcome at Bujubuli HC III, Kyegegwa District, Western Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment

Improvement Method: Client engagement
IMPROVING ACCESS TO HEPATITIS PREVENTION AND CARE IN SINDH PAKISTAN

Region and Country: Asia | Pakistan

Improvement Topic: Chronic conditions | Documentation/data collection | Equipment/supplies | Financial management | Gender | Immunization | Infectious diseases | Policy | Program design | Program evaluation | Program management | Referral systems | Scaling up | Service integration | Sustainability

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives | Improvement models/methodologies | Institutionalization | Reminders and job aids | Spread and scale-up | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Supervision | Training
A Quality Improvement Approach Assists Health Systems to Develop Problem Solving Skills Focused on Routine Immunization: The ARISE-SI Project, Masaka, Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: At-risk populations | Community health workers | Community involvement | Employee Engagement | Immunization | Monitoring and evaluation | Motivation/incentives

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement | Training | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving early detection of TB treatment defaulters among unsupervised patients through their adherence to scheduled dates of TB drug collection at CBTO, TB treatment Centre in Lusaka Zambia

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Zambia

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Translating knowledge into action

Region and Country: Russia

Improvement Topic: TB infection control

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Organization of work
USING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TO COMBAT MALARIA

Region and Country: Developing Countries

Improvement Topic: Malaria case management

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
Promotion of Quality and Safety of Healthcare in Egypt by Implementing a Pilot Surveillance Program for Hospital-acquired infections

Region and Country: Africa, North | Egypt

Improvement Topic: Antimicrobial resistance | Infection control and prevention | Patient Safety | Sustainability

Improvement Method: Institutionalization | Training | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Engaging Pharmacies to Control Tuberculosis (TB) in India

Region and Country: Asia | India

Improvement Topic: Public-private mix | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement models/methodologies | Reminders and job aids
Reducing the effects of HIV/AIDS in rural communities through a holistic approach by volunteer caregivers in Shiselweni, Southern Swaziland

Region and Country: Swaziland

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Community and home-based care for PLWHA | Directly observed treatment, DOTS | HIV counseling and testing | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Social mobilization | Stigma | TB-HIV

Improvement Method: Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Simple, Low-Cost Measures at the National Institute of Child Health’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Lima, Peru, Decrease Health Care-Associated Infections

Region and Country: South America | Peru

Improvement Topic: Infection control and prevention | Patient Safety

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Standards and evidence-based guidelines
A Quality Improvement Approach Assists Health Systems to Develop Problem Solving Skills Focused on Routine Immunization: The ARISE-SI Project, Masaka, Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Immunization

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement | Improvement models/methodologies | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement
Championing Performance Standards to Increase Family Planning Use by Women after Postabortion Care at a Guinea Clinic

Region and Country: Guinea

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | Emergency obstetric care | Emergency treatment assessment and triage (ETAT) | Employee Engagement | Equipment/supplies | Essential obstetric care | Family planning | Hand hygiene | Infection control and prevention | Performance evaluation | Performance management | Prevention | Program management | Recognition/remuneration | Service integration | Supervision | Waste management

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Organization of work | Performance-based incentives | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Supervision | Building Capacity in Improvement
REDUCING TIME PATIENTS SPEND IN THE HIV CLINIC THROUGH INNOVATIVE USE OF PATIENT HELD CARDS IN BUKEDEA HC IV, EASTERN UGANDA

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Improving Documentation and Clinical Outcome at Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Institutionalization
Establishing information system to improve patient monitoring and follow up

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
INCREASING HIV COVERAGE THROUGH LINKING HIV+ ANC MOTHERS TO ART CLINIC.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up
HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOLS, AN ENTRY POINT TO HEALTH PROMOTION IN COMMUNITIES.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Community involvement | Prevention

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
SUCCESS STORY; A HEALTH POST OPENNED AT KAKOLO IN MAPOSA AREA - KITWE ZAMBIA

Region and Country: Zambia

Improvement Topic: Service integration

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
Developing quality participatory pharmacy practice for children living with HIV/AIDS in Mbeya, United Republic of Tanzania

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Tanzania

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | Behavior change and communication | Community involvement | HIV/AIDS | Pediatric HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Client engagement | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Expanding Outreach and Impact of Community Mobilization by Empowering Youth to Lead

Region and Country: West Bank

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Community involvement | Cross-cutting

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement models/methodologies | Spreading Improvement
Sustaining the Rehabilitation of Disabled Children by Training Mothers to be Partners in Treatment and Advocacy

Region and Country: West Bank

Improvement Topic: Behavior change and communication | Chronic conditions | Cultural responsiveness/adaptation of delivery care | Gender | Program design | Service integration | Sustainability

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Client engagement | Improvement models/methodologies | Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving Exposed Infant Diagnosis at Ishaka Adventist Hospital-HIV Clinic,Bushenyi,Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | PMTCT

Improvement Method: Organization of work
TASK SHIFTING for Rapid Scale up of Treatment of HIV/AIDS

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Ethiopia

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Scaling up | Task shifting

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up
Improving Neonatal Care through the Development of a Newborn Improvement Care Team at Witbank Hospital, South Africa

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Essential newborn care

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback
Monitoring and Evaluation of Malaria in the Riverine communities of Bayelsa state of Nigeria

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Nigeria

Improvement Topic: CHW role | Community involvement | Country ownership | Documentation/data collection | Equipment/supplies | Home-based management of malaria | Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) | Malaria | Malaria case management | Malaria treatment in adults | Malaria treatment in children | Monitoring and evaluation | Motivation/incentives | Performance evaluation | Program design | Program evaluation | Program management | Supervision | Training

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback | Employee engagement | Supervision | Training | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Improved TB case detection among rural underserved communities through participatory theatre approaches

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Community involvement | HIV-TB

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up
Tele Safemotherhood Pilot Project in Rolpa District of Nepal

Region and Country: Nepal

Improvement Topic: Antenatal care

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Improving Patients Retention in HIV care through adherence to scheduled appointments at St. Anthony’s Hospital, Eastern Uganda.

Region and Country:

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method:
Improving iron and folate supplement availability for Antenatal Care in Kenya

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Antenatal care | Country ownership | Employee Engagement | Equipment/supplies | Financial management | Maternal nutrition | Micronutrient supplementation | Sustainability

Improvement Method: Client engagement | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Supervision | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Waste Management in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Waste management

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
Occupational Safety in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Community health workers

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
Injection Safety in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Infection control and prevention | Medical injection safety

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
The Potential to Save Newborn Lives in Rural communities of Zambia: Results of a Randomised Control Study in Mpongwe and Chongwe, Zambia.

Region and Country: Zambia

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES ON MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION IN 16 AIDSRelief PARTNER FACILITIES: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Nigeria

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Grace Children's Hospital - TB Screening

Region and Country: Haiti

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | Employee Engagement | HIV-TB | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies | Organization of work | Building Capacity in Improvement
A QI Team Approach to Scale Up Provision of TB Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) at Outapi ART Clinic

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | HIV-TB | Isoniazid preventive therapy

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies | Spread and scale-up | Building Capacity in Improvement
Toward “real time” HIV/STI diagnosis in the HIV/AIDS Program of Mexico City

Region and Country: Mexico

Improvement Topic: HIV laboratory services

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving access to HIV testing and other basic health services in rural areas of Malawi through mobile clinics

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Malawi

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up
Reducing the waiting time for HIV/AIDS patients attending Mengo Hospital HIV clinic, an urban hospital in Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Program design

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement models/methodologies | Institutionalization | Building Capacity in Improvement | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Facilitating Active Lab Sample Transport (FAST) System Using Public Mini-Buses – Report of a Pilot Program in Swaziland

Region and Country: Swaziland

Improvement Topic: HIV laboratory services

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Soroti District Improvement Report

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | HIV/AIDS | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Supervision | Training
Motorbike ambulance -Saving pregnant mothers lives by saving delay in transfer when urgent interevention is needed

Region and Country: Ethiopia

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
COMPLETE INTEGRATION OF TB ASSESSMENT IN HIV/AIDS CARE AT BUSESA HC IV

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: TB-HIV | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Reminders and job aids
The Story of establishing an HIV/AIDS clinic in Tiriri HC IV, Soroti district in Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement collaboratives
Improving quality of HIV care in a staff limited rural health center in Namutumba District Eastern Uganda.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: TB-HIV

Improvement Method: Client engagement
Improvement of infection prevention standards compliance at Tikur Anbessa Hospital- a quality improvement project

Region and Country: Ethiopia

Improvement Topic: Infection control and prevention

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Improvement models/methodologies | Organization of work | Performance-based incentives
HEALTH CARE ON GIRL CHILD - INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Orphans and vulnerable children

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Integrating Palliative care in HIV chronic care clinic at Wabulungu HC III, Mayuge District

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic:

Improvement Method: Organization of work
Community driven initiatives for quality care of OVC

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Coordination of OVC care | Developing OVC service standards

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
A comprehensive approach for Quality Improvement of TB laboratory service in resource-limited settings

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV laboratory services | HIV-TB | TB case finding and diagnosis | TB-HIV | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Training | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement
Lessons in providing quality assurance for HIV rapid testing in Malawi

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Malawi

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing | HIV laboratory services | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback
RETENTION COLLABRATIVE IN HIV/AIDS CLIENTS

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Improving TB assessment among HIV/AIDS patients attending Mengo Hospital, an urban hospital in Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV-TB

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement models/methodologies | Institutionalization | Analytical Tools for Improvement
ENROLLMENT OF HIV POSITIVE CLIENTS IN TO CHRONIC CARE AT NAMAWANGA HCIII

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
HIV/ AIDS improvement at Nyenga clinic

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan

Improvement Topic: HIV infection prevention/universal precautions

Improvement Method: Training
Meeting multiple needs of vulnerable children in Kenya

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Orphans and vulnerable children

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving adherence of HIV/AIDS patients to ARVs in Tororo General Hospital, Eastern Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement collaboratives
REDUCING CLENTS' CLINIC VISIT TIME AT NYENGA MOBILE HIV/AIDS CLINIC IN UGANDA

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
Improving the quality of care for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS by introducing Psychosocial Support services at Beatrice Road Infectious Disease Hospital (BRIDH) Opportunistic Infections and Antiretroviral Therapy (OI/ART) Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe

Region and Country: Zimbabwe

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Adolescent reproductive health | Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | Building QI capacity in OVC implementers | HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Orphans and vulnerable children | OVC services | Reproductive Health | Task shifting | TB infection control | TB-HIV | Training | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
THE ROLE OF THE DISTRICT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT TEAM IN STRENGTHENING INTEGRATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE INTO CHRONIC CARE AND OTHER SERVICES IN MAYUGE DISTRICT, UGANDA

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Performance management | Supervision | Training

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies | Supervision | Training
Fight against Tuberculosis by School Students

Region and Country: Pakistan

Improvement Topic: Public-private mix | Social mobilization | TB case finding and diagnosis | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Performance-based incentives | Training
The Impact of Quality Improvement Initiatives in a mobile ART Program: Experience gained by Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization (Kitovu Mobile) Providing ART to People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) in South West Uganda.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
Daily diary analysis – An approach to strengthen information system at grass root level

Region and Country: Asia | India

Improvement Topic: Community health workers | Employee Engagement | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Supervision | Task shifting | Training

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Employee engagement | Supervision | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
PSYCOLOGICAL CARE IN NEUROCOGNITIVE DYSFUNTION RESULTING FROM HIV AIDS

Region and Country: Asia | India

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing | HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Client engagement | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Best improvememt reports from KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving Patients' Retention in HIV Care Through Adherence to Scheduled Appointments at Bukedea HC IV, Eastern Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Reducing prescription of Antimalarials to smear negative patients

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Malaria | Malaria diagnosis | Malaria treatment in children

Improvement Method:
Child Health Care Improvement Programme in Nkandla hospital

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Reduction in length of stay of discharges from a Chilean Pediatric Unit.

Region and Country: South America | Chile

Improvement Topic: Employee Engagement | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Motivation/incentives | Performance management

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Improvement models/methodologies | Supervision | Analytical Tools for Improvement
IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE IN RURAL HIV CLINICS THROUGH CLINICAL DATA AUDITS: EXPERIENCE FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA.

Region and Country: Nigeria

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Pediatric HIV/AIDS | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Audit and feedback
Maximizing Resources Where Resources are Limited: a Rural Health Facility's Efforts to Improve Storage of HIV Records in Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Nutritional support

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives | Organization of work
Reducing pneumonia and diarrhea mortality of children under 5 in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras

Region and Country: Honduras

Improvement Topic: Community health workers | Diarrheal disease prevention and case management | Emergency treatment assessment and triage (ETAT) | Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) | Pneumonia case management | Supervision | Training

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives | Organization of work | Spread and scale-up | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Training
Developing clear expectations and objectives for health workers focusing on MCH in Niger

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Niger

Improvement Topic: Active management of the third stage of labor | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Maternal, Newborn and Child Health | Performance management

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Care of the Caregivers in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Social support for PLWHA | Stigma

Improvement Method: Supervision | Training
Integrating Family Planning into HIV Care/ART Services in Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: FP-HIV integration | HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Reproductive Health

Improvement Method:
Decentralizing HIV care and TB screening in St. Petersburg, Russia

Region and Country: Russia

Improvement Topic: Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | HIV-TB | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Organization of work

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) • University Research Co., LLC (URC) • Center for Communication Programs (CCP)
EnCompass LLC • Family Health International (FHI) • Health Research, Inc. (HRI) • Initiatives Inc. • Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

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