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The USAID Quality Health Care Project is a five-year program to improve the health status of Central Asians by incorporating modern quality improvement techniques and evidence-based international standards into ongoing reforms of health systems to assist Central Asian countries to improve their management, financing, and implementation of health services related to tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health services and cardiovascular disease. Read more about the Project…
To promote the development and expansion of evidence-based health care in Central Asia, the USAID Quality Health Care Project supported the recent revision of the Central Asian Republics Evidence-Based Medicine Specialists’ Network website at http://www.carebms.net/. Building on Central Asia’s shared … Continue reading →
Almaty, Kazakhstan – On January 30, the USAID Quality Health Care Project convened a roundtable discussion on HIV prevention and support services for women in Kazakhstan. As approximately one third of injecting drug users in Kazakhstan are women, including women … Continue reading →
In cooperation with Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Health, the USAID Quality Health Care Project established six birth preparedness schools in 2011 in Bishkek, Naryn, Kochkor, Nooken, Jalal-Abad, and Ala-Buka. Birth preparedness schools are effective in improving the knowledge of pregnant women … Continue reading →
To raise awareness of HIV prevention and treatment, the USAID Quality Health Care Project supported activities in observance of World AIDS Day in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan In Almaty, the USAID Quality Health Care Project, in partnership with … Continue reading →
At 64 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, Tajikistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Central Asia. To improve the quality of maternal and child care in the country, USAID is providing technical assistance to Tajikistan’s Ministry … Continue reading →
In July 2011, the USAID Quality Health Care Project, in partnership with the World Health Organization and Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, launched Keeping Children Healthy campaigns to educate child caretakers on key health messages. To reach caretakers, … Continue reading →
High blood pressure during pregnancy is among the leading causes of maternal mortality in the world. In Tajikistan, approximately 14% of all maternal deaths are caused by conditions brought about by high blood pressure (UNICEF, 2005). To improve maternal and … Continue reading →
On November 2nd, the Government of Tajikistan passed a groundbreaking decree to authorize preparations for the introduction of a new financing mechanism at pilot health facilities in Sogd Oblast beginning in 2011. To ensure the success of the pilot program in … Continue reading →
In early 2012, Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Health and the USAID Quality Health Care Project will launch the country’s first fully outpatient TB treatment pilot site in Issyk-Ata Rayon in Chui Oblast. Throughout 2011, the Government of Kyrgyzstan, USAID, and international … Continue reading →
On November 9-11, the USAID Quality Health Care Project, together with Uzbekistan’s Republican DOTS Center, conducted the first in a series of training workshops on continuous quality improvement for healthcare providers to improve the quality of detection and treatment of … Continue reading →
