As a global leader in the business of saving lives and transforming futures in the world’s most challenging places, Jhpiego, as you might imagine, is working overtime—and enlisting new talent. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, Jhpiego is looking to the next generation to share ideas, energy and passions as they focus on resolving societal concerns important to them. Through the aptly named Changemakers curriculum, Jhpiego is building
Jhpiego supports national malaria programmes (NMP) across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to implement evidence-based malaria service delivery interventions in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation (SME). Priority interventions include insecticide-treated nets, intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), seasonal malaria chemoprevention, malaria case management, and improving data recording and use at service delivery points
Long distances between homes and health facilities made it nearly impossible for pregnant women in some areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to receive the care they needed to protect themselves and their unborn babies from malaria. That’s where community health workers (CHWs), supported by the Transforming Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPTp) for