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Erik Schouten

Taking Health Systems Innovations to Scale: From Good Ideas to Greater Health Impact

by Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH on August 29, 2012 · 2 comments

in Health Systems Strengthening,HIV & AIDS

  Each year over 10 million men, women, and children in developing countries die as a result of our collective failure to deliver available safe, affordable, and proven prevention and treatment. A recent analysis of innovations in products and practices for global health, from the Hepatitis B vaccine to use of skilled birth attendants, revealed virtually none [...]

Tagged as: Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlet (ADDO), Afghanistan, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Booz Allen, Clinton Global Initiative, Erik Schouten, Haiti, innovation, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Jonathan Quick, Malawi, Option B+, performance-based financing, Rockefeller Foundation, Rwanda, Tanzania, The Global Fund, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, The Lancet, USAID

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Can We Eliminate Pediatric HIV?

by Rachel Hassinger on October 21, 2011 · 0 comments

in HIV & AIDS

We know how to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. But without intervention nearly 40 percent of mothers with HIV/AIDS in developing countries will transmit the virus to their newborns.

Tagged as: Africa, B+ option, Erik Schouten, global health, HIV & AIDS, Malawi, maternal health, MNCH, PEPFAR, PMTCT, policy and advocacy, Scott Kellerman, US Government

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Malawi’s Bold PMTCT Stance Protects HIV Positive Women Beyond Childbirth

by Sara Holtz, DrPH, MPH on August 2, 2011 · 8 comments

in HIV & AIDS,Women & Gender

Malawi leads the developing world as the first to propose an approach to prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV that addresses the health of the mother. Recently my MSH colleague Erik Schouten and his colleagues in Malawi wrote a commentary in the Lancet about Malawi’s innovative, public health approach to PMTCT. Malawi [...]

Tagged as: AIDS, antiretroviral therapy, ART, B+ option, Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, BASICS, child health, Erik Schouten, HIV, Malawi, maternal health, MNCH, PMTCT, The Lancet, WHO, World Health Organization

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Erik Schouten on New Approaches to Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission in The Lancet

by Scott Kellerman, MD, MPH on July 19, 2011 · 1 comment

in HIV & AIDS,Women & Gender

I’d like to call attention to an important set of articles in the recent HIV/AIDS themed issue of The Lancet. Erik Schouten of Malawi Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) has published a commentary (free registration required) about Malawi’s push to be the first country to implement a “B+” approach to reducing mother to child [...]

Tagged as: AIDS, B+ option, BASICS, child health, Eric Goosby, Erik Schouten, HIV, IAS, International AIDS Society Conference, John Donnelly, Malawi, maternal health, maternal newborn and child health, Michel Sidibe, MNCH, PMTCT, Rome, Scott Kellerman, UNAIDS, World Health Organization (WHO)

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