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Europe - Current Projects

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Sustaining Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Services in Georgia (Sustain)
The Sustain project is an important evolution with significant next steps. The goal of Sustain is to advance Georgia toward a goal of countrywide access to and utilization of modern, evidence-based and family-friendly maternity care and family planning by simultaneously expanding private sector partnerships (service providers, pharmacies, drug distribution companies); encouraging sustainable, affordable financing mechanisms (insurance coverage, social marketing, low cost contraceptives); institutionalizing evidence-based RH care (public and private clinics, maternities, pharmacies); reforming pre-service training (for doctors, midwives, and pharmacists); and creating educated reproductive health consumers. This vision includes young people just entering reproductive years, young couples growing their families, ethnic minorities, rural and urban couples, and the most disadvantaged in Georgian society.
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Global Fund Voluntary Pooled Procurement (VPP)
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a major financing institution in the fight against these diseases in 140 countries. The Global Fund established a Procurement Support Service for its Principal Recipients, with Voluntary Pooled Procurement and Capacity Building Services aimed at ensuring a cost-effective and efficient procurement process. These services provide support to countries to resolve procurement bottlenecks and supply chain management challenges and facilitate timely access to pharmaceuticals and health products.

In March 2009, the Global Fund selected the Partnership for Supply Chain management (PFSCM) as its Voluntary Pooled Procurement Service Agent. JSI is a managing partner of PFSCM.
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GEORGIA Survive Project
In the Republic of Georgia, breast and cervical cancer are a major cause of mortality and morbidity among adult Georgian women. Georgia has the highest rate of deaths from breast cancer among all former Soviet Union countries, and data on cervical cancer are equally alarming.

The Survive Project increases public awareness of breast and cervical cancer among reproductive aged women by promoting early detection methods and screening for both types of cancer. The Project also reinforces provider skills through trainings in best screening practices, and strengthens existing health systems by building a robust referral and treatment network.

The Survive Project was initially a USAID-funded 1 year grant awarded in March 2009. In March 2010 it was extended 6 additional months and is now due to close in August, 2010. Survive also draws on the strengths and support of a consortium of local partners as well as UNFPA, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the World Bank.
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Institutionalizing Best Practices in Maternal and Child Health (IBP-MCH)
Remarkable progress has been made in reproductive health (RH) and maternal and child health (MCH) in Russia in the past two decades. Yet, maternal mortality rates continue to markedly exceed those of many European countries. The Institutionalizing Best Practices in Maternal and Child Health (IBP-MCH) project seeks to decrease maternal and infant mortality in Russia by improving access to and use of high quality reproductive health (RH) and maternal and child health (MCH) services. To achieve this goal, JSI helps to introduce and replicate international best practices. The project works to increase contraceptive prevalence among women of reproductive age, thereby contributing to decreased abortion rates in selected federal districts.

JSI works with its Russian partner, the Institute for Family Health Information and Research (IFH-IR), to implement this project.
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AIDSTAR-One (AIDS Support & Technical Assistance Resources)
AIDSTAR Sector I Task Order 1 ("AIDSTAR-One") is USAID's global HIV & AIDS project that provides technical assistance services to the Office of HIV/AIDS and USG country teams in knowledge management, technical leadership, program sustainability, strategic planning and program implementation support.
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USAID | DELIVER PROJECT: Supply Chain Management for Outbreak Response (SCM-OR)
The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT improves essential health commodity supply chains by strengthening logistics management information systems, streamlining distribution systems, identifying financial resources for procurement and supply chain operation, and enhancing forecasting and procurement planning. Health programs cannot operate successfully without a full supply of essential commodities. The project encourages policymakers and donors to support logistics as a critical factor in the overall success of their health care mandates.

Task Order 2 (TO2) supports USAID's Avian and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Unit. Objectives include procuring commodities; and establishing and operating a secure and reliable global distribution system to store, transport, rapidly deliver, and track in-country distribution of current and future USAID Avian Influenza International Stockpile (USAID AI Stockpile) assets.

Implemented by John Snow Inc., the project designs, develops, strengthens, and, upon request, operates safe, sustainable, and reliable supply systems that provide a range of affordable, quality essential health commodities, including drugs, diagnostics, and supplies, to clients in country programs. Under this task order, JSI will establish a comprehensive management information system to provide current information about all aspects of the AI global distribution mechanism.
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UKRAINE Maternal and Infant Health Project II
The Maternal and Infant Health Project II (MIHP-II) rolls-out services and key evidence-based medicine (EBM) interventions that were developed and employed during the life of the project's predecessor, MIHP I. With funding from USAID, private sector funding, and the support (financial, logistical, legal, and technical) of the MOH and participating facilities, JSI will achieve nearly complete roll-out by the end of the project.

Through MIHP-II, JSI continues to improve women's reproductive and newborn health and increase public awareness of healthy behaviors. In new facilities, JSI achieves the same profile of results observed under the former MIHP - the development of family-friendly delivery rooms, the reduction of practices such as amniotomies and episiotomies, and an increase in free position during delivery, immediate breastfeeding, and the rooming-in of mothers and newborns.

Read the following success stories about the program:
Husband Casts Tradition Aside and Helps Deliver Son
Keeping Warm after Birth
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Europe & Eurasia Regional Family Planning Activity
Lack of access to modern contraceptives and quality family planning services--including limited method choice, provider bias and misinformation, and out-of-pocket costs--are among the greatest health challenges faced by women in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These factors contribute to abortion rates that are higher than those found in many other parts of the world, and negatively impact women's health.

The Europe and Eurasia (E&E) Regional Family Planning Activity was a three-year initiative implemented by John Snow, Inc from October 1, 2006 until September 30, 2009 and funded by the USAID E&E Bureau. The Regional Activity was designed to leverage best practices in family planning with the goal of accelerating FP program implementation across the region, ultimately increasing modern contraceptive use and decreasing abortion rates. The program was designed as an institutional support activity working for and through USAID country missions to enhance and complement country-level family planning programs and USAID bilateral projects.

E&E Regional Family Planning Activity final report

Improving Family Planning PreService Education Experience from the Eastern E&E Region
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UKRAINE TFH (Together for Health: Improving Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Ukraine)
Until early 2000, abortion and intrauterine devices (IUDs) were the leading methods of birth control in the Ukraine. The concept of being able to choose among a range of contraceptive methods was unknown to many people in Ukraine, mainly due to widespread concerns about hormonal side-effects. Limited knowledge on modern family planning counseling and practices led many of the 12,000 ob-gyns to prescribe mainly non-hormonal methods, without counseling their clients. There is now a broad range of contraceptive methods available on the market in Ukraine - at least in cities - contributing to an increasing use of contraception.

JSI and its partners, Harvard School of Public Health and the Academy for Educational Development along with USAID, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, and other stakeholders are building the technical capacity to reduce the number of abortions, unintended pregnancies, and incidence of sexually transmitted infections through improved provision of and access to quality reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) services supported by both public and private sectors.
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