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The Improvement Collaborative: An Approach to Rapidly Improve Health Care and Scale Up Quality Services describes the Improvement Collaborative approach as adapted by the USAID-funded Quality Assurance Project and Health Care Improvement Project. An improvement collaborative is a quality improvement approach that brings together a large number of teams to work and learn together to rapidly achieve significant improvements in a specific area of care, with intention of spreading these methods to other sites. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) designed the approach as a strategy to help health care organizations in the U.S. rapidly improve health care quality and outcomes. The paper draws on the lessons learned in implementing over 35 improvement collaboratives in 14 developing and middle income countries. It describes seven essential features for the successful implementation of an improvement collaborative and the key activities that occur during each of a collaborative’s phases: the preparatory phase, the implementation/demonstration phase, and the spread phase. (20 pages, 517 KB) Download report
The Evidence Base for Programming for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Low Prevalence and Concentrated Epidemic Countries. This working paper is the result of collaboration between the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and URC’s Quality Assurance and Workforce Development Project (QAP). Worldwide, the commitment to protect and support children affected by HIV/AIDS is growing, and countries with low level or concentrated epidemics are increasingly developing and putting in place special programs to support these children. The goal of the working paper was to summarize and weigh the evidence on a myriad of challenges faced by children affected by HIV/AIDS in low prevalence and concentrated epidemic countries in order to facilitate evidence-based programming. (142 pages)
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