MEASURE Evaluation News
Seven Part Webinar Series on Data Demand and Use
MEASURE Evaluation hosts a seven part webinar series focused on data demand and use for data users and producers in the health sector.
Living Arrangements of Young Adults: New Add Health Research Brief Released
Data from Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) provide new insights on the living arrangements of young adults (ages 24 to 32).
World AIDS Day 2011
December 1, 2011 marks the 23rd World AIDS Day. MEASURE Evaluation has done work to help control the spread of HIV and to treat people living with HIV/AIDS in more than 10 countries, including Zambia, Namibia, Russia, and Vietnam.
Nigerian Summit Maps Better Data Sharing
MEASURE Evaluation, along with the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health and mapping agencies, organized the country’s first Health and Mapping Summit, to improve access to health data.
Working to Eliminate Violence Against Women
MEASURE Evaluation joins other organizations, as well as women and men everywhere, to observe the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Friday, November 25.
New Case Study Details Health Improvements in Cote d’Ivoire
A new MEASURE Evaluation case study details improvements in data demand and information use in Cote d’Ivoire. The Ivorian Ministry of Health (MoH) and MEASURE Evaluation worked together to improve HIV/AIDS data collection and information use. As a result, from 2006 to 2008, the number of people tested for HIV increased by 77 percent, and the number of people counseled increased by 72 percent.
National Forum Unites Malaria-Control Experts in Kenya
With support from MEASURE Evaluation, the first Kenya National Malaria Forum was held October 10-11 in Nairobi. The forum brought together more than 130 participants from the Kenyan government, NGOs, the press, faith-based organizations, universities, and other organizations participated to share knowledge and experiences about malaria control.
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in Tanzania
MEASURE Evaluation first used the lot quality assurance sampling methodology in Tanzania in 2010 in its effort to determine whether services were being delivered to the country’s most vulnerable children.
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in Kenya
MEASURE Evaluation first used LQAS in Kenya in 2009 when it piloted the Child Survival Indicator Survey. The pilot study was undertaken in Kenya’s Western and Nyanza provinces in collaboration with the National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) and the Division of Child Health.
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in Liberia
MEASURE Evaluation began providing technical assistance in Liberia for a pilot study using the lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) methodology in early 2011. The purpose of the study was to provide information for programmatic decision making on key health indicators at both the national and county levels.
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Measures Performance
What originated in the 1920s as a quality control methodology in the manufacturing sector is proving to be quite useful in the public health context, and increasingly constructive to MEASURE Evaluation’s in-country work.
M&E Training Materials Available at No Cost
MEASURE Evaluation makes M&E training curricula freely available to M&E trainers
M&E Fundamentals Online Course Available in Four Languages
M&E Fundamentals is now available in four languages – English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
SAVVY Improves Data Collection in Zambia
For the first time, the Zambian government may be able to obtain reliable, detailed information about causes of death and other key health indicators thanks to MEASURE Evaluation's SAVVY verbal autopsy tools.
MEASURE Evaluation PRH at 2011 Int'l Family Planning Conference
MEASURE Evaluation PRH will present four abstracts and moderate one panel at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal.
Data Quality Training in Zimbabwe
The National AIDS Council in Zimbabwe receives training in MEASURE Evaluation's Data Quality Audit tools for its national HIV M&E System.
An Overview of Spatial Data Protocols for Family Planning Activities
This publication presents an overview of how to structure family planning data to take maximum advantage of existing geographic data or to facilitate future inclusion of the geographic context of data being gathered.
MEASURE Evaluation PRH Announces Third Request for Small Grant Proposals in Family Planning Research
The MEASURE Evaluation Population & Reproductive Health Associate Award (PRH), a USAID-funded project, announces its third round of requests for proposals for its small grants program to increase the evidence base in family planning.
Directors Call for Implementation Science to be Placed Within a Broader Context
In the September issue of Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (JAIDS), MEASURE Evaluation directors expressed reservations about randomized experiments, explaining that they “are suitable and feasible for only a small portion of HIV interventions” in a letter to the editor.
