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The Ghanaian government, partnering with USAID, seeks to improve private sector expertise in providing quality health services, including access to diarrhea treatment for children.

The private sector is a key provider of priority health-care services. But too often it is overlooked or not fully integrated into the health system. The public sector frequently does not have accurate information about the size and scope of the private…

West Africa is one of the world’s poorest regions. Business and trade there face chronic obstacles such as spotty product quality, inaccessible loans, bureaucratic blockages, and donor dependency. The region’s leading midsized firms—those with the…

The pictures from Brazil showed babies born with small heads or distended limbs. They were victims of Zika, the first mosquito-transmitted virus to cause devastating birth defects. Brazil and Puerto Rico reported growing numbers of Zika-related cases in…

With health departments at the state and local level, the United States need consistent data to identify trends, track benchmarks and implement solutions at national, state and local scales. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a…

Abt Global provided technical assistance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water to support the development of a draft report outlining potential approaches to inform a health-based benchmark for lead…

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP), administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) within the Department of Health and Human Services, provides a comprehensive system of care for people living with HIV and AIDS. Although…

Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…

EvidenceNOW, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is helping more than 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices across the U.S. use the latest evidence to improve the heart health of millions of Americans…

Birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, accounting for 20 percent of all infant deaths in 2018. Approximately 3 percent of babies born in the United States are affected by a major genetic or structural birth defect…