2011 Grant Recipient
Tanzania
MSPH Program, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, JHSPH
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW)-Tanzania and Jhpiego have identified postpartum care as a critical gap in MNCH service provision. Building on an established PMTCT platform, the MoHSW and Jhpiego have developed an Integrated Facility and Community PMTCT program to serve as a model for provision of more comprehensive and integrated MNCH services for both HIV-positive and negative pregnant women and their infants in selected health facilities and their catchment areas in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health faculty are presently working to evaluate the impact of Jhpiego's integrated PMTCT program in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania. The overall goal of evaluation activities is to significantly improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes in Tanzania by identifying optimal strategies for implementation and sustained delivery of evidence-based, cost-effective, culturally acceptable, and integrated maternal newborn care interventions with attention to both HIV positive and negative mothers and infants. The proposed monitoring and evaluation activities have the following objectives:
1. Monitor and document the implementation of an integrated MNCH intervention package in Morogoro Region. Provide timely feedback about access, coverage, and quality of essential MNCH interventions.
2. Provide feedback on the implementation of the MNCH package to allow adjustment of program strategies, and carry out evaluation of the effectiveness and cost of the final intervention package; and
3. Disseminate lessons learned and provide policy support to facilitate scale up of tested strategies to other Regions of Tanzania. | 
