Health Alliance International

Programs: In 2016, the health alliance international cote d'ivoire program received the majority of its funding from the us centers for disease control and prevention (cdc)'s president's emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar). Additional funds were granted from the us agency for international development (usaid) via the population council's hivcore task order. With this funding, the cote d'ivoire program supported hiv service integration and scale up at more than 100 health facilities located in 17 districts of northern cote d'ivoire; provided community outreach and clinical services to families affected by hiv in partnership with 20 local ngos; and conducted a national assessment of mother-to-child transmission of hiv services in collaboration with the cote d'ivoire ministry of health.

the hai-mozambique portfolio continues to address critical health system gaps in monitoring and evaluation (m&e), health information systems, and human resource constraints in mozambique. The portfolio's three largest projects used a research-based approach to strengthen malaria, tuberculosis (tb), and maternal and child health (mch) systems in the country. In 2016, hai trained roughly 42 fellows in m&e principles and placed them in externships with provincial and district malaria departments throughout the country. Lastly, hai received additional funding from our largest donor, the doris duke chartiable foundation, to address inefficiencies that prevent health agencies from providing higher quality integrated healthcare. This project seeks to improve district-level management and planning capacity of mch departments in sofala and manica provinces. The project continues to provide direct financial support to the provincial health care system and trains health care workers in effective interpretation and use of mch data.

in 2016, the timor-leste program completed a four-year grant that funded the design, development, implementation and operations research to assess impact of timor-leste's first ever mhealth program focused on maternal health. Known as the liga inan mhealth partnership, the grant was a collaboration of hai, catalpa international - a technology innovation company, and the timor-leste ministry of health. Over 2016, hai completed analysis of quantitative data assessing the impact of the liga inan mhealth program and disseminated the research findings to the timor-leste ministry of health, donors, partners and other interested organizations both in and out of timor-leste. Hai also began a new multiple year grant with the australian department of foreign affairs and trade (dfat) to improve health outcomes for women and newborns. And finally, hai continued its health system strengthening work in partnership with the ministry of health and the national institute of health in the implementation of learning labs. Learning labs provides onsite training and follow up coaching for government midwives to improve their skills in safe and clean delivery care and essential newborn care.

a small grant was awarded for limited work in liberia. This grant funded salary support for dr. Brad wagenaar to aid partners in health in developing strategic research plans and providing support focusing on clinical priority areas of hiv, tb, maternal health, child health, mental health and community programs.