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Since 1993, improving health, saving lives and responding to disease outbreaks.

  • At Jhpiego-supported health care facilities, more than 426,000 deliveries were attended by a skilled birth attendant and more than 9 million women started using a modern family planning (FP) method for the first time.
  • The Health Service Delivery (HSD) project assisted Guinea’s Ministry of Health to define an integrated package of essential services and helped increase the number of facilities offering the full package from 79 in 2017 to 261 in 2022 (94% of project target).
  • To date, HSD has trained 117 providers, 143 community educators 30 paralegals and 50 protection officers in gender-based violence (GBV) services, including clinical management, referral and reporting, educational messages for prevention and awareness building of community resources. In the three years that HSD has supported GBV activities, more than 1600 cases have been managed at 56 project-supported facilities for this intervention.
  • Jhpiego supported COVID-19 vaccination in two regions, Boke and Kindia. Through support to organize and mobilize teams of vaccinators and ensure waste management, more than 2.3 million doses have been administered, with 1.04 million fully vaccinated with two doses or a single dose product. As a result, second dose coverage in these regions is 55% and 46%, respectively, of target—well exceeding the national average of 25%.

Our Work in Guinea

Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI)

This multi-country project is catalyzing the introduction and adoption pathways for quality-assured drugs to treat postpartum hemorrhage (i.e., heat-stable carbetocin, tranexamic acid and misoprostol) through engagement and coordination with country governments and key stakeholders. The project aims to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity by making sure the right drug is in the right place at the right time for the right indication. Funded by Unitaid, AMPLI-PPHI is led by Jhpiego and supported by consortium partners PATH and the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). In addition to operating in four target countries (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya and India), an additional 13 other influence countries are benefitting from country and learning exchanges as well as from the sharing of project learning, resources and tools. For more information, please visit the project website.

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

With funding from the Global Fund to Fight Against HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria through the Ministry of Health in Guinea, Jhpiego is leading efforts to strengthen services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) for women and newborns. Anticipated project results include:

  • Extend personalized support to high-burden PMTCT health sites from 106 to 166 to ensure quality of PMTCT services, and support community mediators to encourage increased antenatal care visits
  • Reinforce early infant diagnosis by training health service providers and support testing and transmission of test results to new mothers
  • Strengthen a coaching approach to improve delivery of quality HIV and PMTCT services, including laboratory and commodity management
  • Ensure access to family planning services, a pillar of PMTCT, for all HIV-positive women
  • Support discussion groups to encourage adherence to treatment, reduce attrition and increase the number of partners and siblings screened
  • Ensure screening and management of precancerous cervical lesions in HIV-positive women
Hormonal IUD Scale-Up Project

This project, funded by the Clinton Health Access Initiative through the Catalytic Opportunity Fund, supports the Guinean Ministry of Health’s efforts to expand contraceptive method choice through the introduction and scale-up of the hormonal IUD. To support initiation and provision of hormonal IUD services at 60 high-volume health facilities that provide long-acting, reversible contraception, Jhpiego is developing the capacities of health care providers by updating national training materials, training 36 national and regional trainers, and conducting provider training and supportive supervision. Jhpiego is also collaborating with the Ministry of Health to support demand generation for hormonal IUDs.

The people we serve

Jhpiego Awarded Unitaid Project to Catalyze Adoption and Scale-Up of Drugs for Postpartum Hemorrhage

August 16, 2022 Baltimore, MD—Jhpiego, a global leader in maternal health care, has been chosen to lead a new $18.5 million project funded by Unitaid that will inform how countries can introduce and accelerate use of key drugs to prevent and treat life-threatening bleeding after birth. The Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum

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From Data to Action: Using Dashboards to Improve Family Planning Services

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many global health programs experienced delays and setbacks in collecting data; however, we know that data can only be used to inform programs if properly collected and analyzed in a timely manner. In three Jhpiego-supported countries implementing family planning programs—Indonesia, Guinea and Kenya—the creation of data dashboards enabled the teams to

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Rapid diagnostic testing for malaria is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic

A version of this blog was originally posted on impactmalaria.org. Malaria is a major health risk in Ghana, with over 5.1 million diagnosed cases and over 300 deaths in 2020 alone. With the added threat of COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised high-malaria burden countries, such as Ghana, to tailor interventions and maintain the

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A Midwife and Ambulance to the Rescue

The frantic call from a nurse at the Koukoudé health post came in at 8 p.m. A woman in labor with twins had given birth to the first baby, but now, hours later, the second baby had not yet arrived. Immediately, Kalaya Kourouma, a midwife at the Boffa District Hospital in Guinea, alerted a district

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Gender Parity = Better Health

In Mozambique, an adolescent searches for a way out of the isolation of young pregnancy. In Guinea, a mother, abandoned by her family, looks to her community for help. In Nepal, a woman subjected to brutal beatings by her husband seeks relief through the support of a trained community health volunteer. Gender inequality can put

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Repairing Fistula, Restoring Hope

A difficult labor left Kadiatou Diallo with the pain of stillbirth and the shame of fistula. Surgical repair services at Guinea’s Kissidougou Hospital offered her healing and hope.

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Protecting Health Workers in Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria

The Ebola crisis has dealt a devastating blow to West Africa, killing more than 4,900 people, overwhelming health systems and crippling the health workforce. As an international, nonprofit health organization dedicated to preventing the needless deaths of women and families, Jhpiego is working side by side with the governments of Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria to provide critical infection prevention and control (IPC) assistance to ensure that health workers are safe on the job and prepared to provide lifesaving care to women and families.

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Country Contact

Yolande Hyjazi, Country Director

Tel. 224 664 233 661

Immeuble Guinomar, 5ème étage

Quartier Camayenne

Commune de Dixinn

Conakry, Guinea

Current and Recent Donors

Advance Family Planning

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CDC

Clinton Health Access Initiative–Catalytic Opportunity Funds

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

UNFPA

Unitaid

USAID

World Health Organization

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