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  • Digital Health Technologies

    • Institute
    • Publication

    The past decades have witnessed a surge in digital health innovations within the field of global health. While these innovations are aimed at enhancing health and well-being, their implementation can unintentionally worsen inequities, result in unethical practices, or fail entirely if not aligned with the needs of users, clients, and systems.  This position paper draws […]

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  • Disaster Impact Mapping for Health Facilities in Afghanistan

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    • Project

    This project aimed to map the risks and potential disruptions to critical health facilities in Afghanistan due to natural disasters, using satellite imagery, GPS data, and service delivery information. By identifying direct and accessibility-related impacts on health facilities, KIT Institute provided national risk and service impact maps to help organizations, like MSF, enhance disaster preparedness […]

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  • Assessing Health Facility Preparedness for Disaster Events in Afghanistan

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    • Project

    Afghanistan regularly experiences extreme weather and geological hazards resulting in a high burden of mortality, health systems impacts, and economic damage. With climate change and seismic risks, Afghanistan’s health system must adapt by identifying vulnerabilities and enhancing preparedness. This research reviewed the existing tools for assessing health facility preparedness. In addition, through expert involvement, a […]

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  • Predicting communities with hightuberculosis case-finding efficiency tooptimise resource allocation in Pakistan: comparing the performance of anegative binomial spatial lag modelwith a Bayesian machine-learningmodel

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    • Publication

    Despite progress in tuberculosis (TB) treatment coverage in past years, an estimated 183000 people with TB may not have been diagnosed in Pakistan in 2022. Therefore, there is a need to develop models which help to steer active case finding (ACF) towards populations with a high probability of having undetected TB. The aim of this […]

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  • Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the Netherlands’Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV/AIDS program in Southern Africa

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    • Publication

    The Embassy of the Netherlands in Mozambique commissioned KIT Institute to review progress of the regional SRHR/HIV Programme in Southern Africa. The second phase of this Regional Programme (2021–2026 with a budget of 89 million Euro) focuses on improving the quality of life for young people aged 10–29, particularly those in vulnerable situations. The Mid […]

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  • Challenges and motivating factors for integrating geostatistical models in targeted schistosomiasis control: A qualitative case study in Northwestern Tanzania

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    To address problems of over- and under-treatment with preventive chemotherapy resulting in ongoing transmission of schistosomiasis, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends targeted mass drug administration (MDA) interventions at a sub-district level. In Tanzania, the lack of sub-district (ward) prevalence data has inhibited a transition to targeted treatment. Model-based prevalence estimation combined with routine surveillance […]

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  • Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery

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    • Publication

    As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]

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  • Desk review: what are social norms and how to effectively set up social norm change interventions in SRHR programmes

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    • Publication

    This Break Free! brief aims to provide an easy-to-read description of lessons learnt in implementing social norms change interventions in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), particularly around preventing child marriage and teenage pregnancy. The brief was developed based on an extensive document review. The recommendations section was informed by three virtual working sessions […]

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  • “Confusion between the religious and the social”

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    Sudan is the only country in North Africa that has not reformed the Personal Status Act for Muslims (also known as family law) which makes child marriage legal in Sudan. As of 2014, 38% of women (20-49 years) were married before the age of 18, and 12% of women (15-49 years) were married before the […]

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  • Determinants of treatment-seeking behaviour and healthcare provider choice in Afghanistan in 2018: a cross-sectional study

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    Afghanistan’s public healthcare system is vital in providing care to the economically disadvantaged and managing infectious diseases and maternal health problems. In this article KIT epidemiologists and research partners in Afghanistan re-analysed the Afghanistan Health Survey 2018 in combination with data on the quality of public healthcare facilities from a national healthcare facility assessment of […]

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  • Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery: opportunities and challenges across the disaster management cycle

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    • Publication

    As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]

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  • KIT hosts Gaza Health Conference

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    • News

    Today, KIT is hosting an international conference of experts, practitioners and policymakers committed to restoring healthcare in Gaza. The conference, organised by KIT Institute and the Gaza Health Initiative, is the third in a series of three international meetings to address critical and urgent healthcare needs in Gaza. A prominent guest joining the meeting in […]

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