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Controlling the HIV Epidemic in Mozambique

Controlling the HIV Epidemic in Mozambique

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Mozambique has the eighth highest HIV prevalence in the world, with 12.6 percent of adults living with HIV, and one of the highest HIV mortality rates. The country has made strides in testing people for HIV and providing treatment. But a high proportion…
Spotlight On: Environmental Toxicology

Spotlight On: Environmental Toxicology

Spotlight On
Our toxicologists design, implement, conduct and manage a wide range of laboratory and field-based bioassays, investigations and other tests to fill key data gaps and increase our understanding of the adverse effects of chemicals, mixtures, and other stressors on numerous organisms, including bacteria, algae, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project

Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project

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To streamline emissions data, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a modelling tool that helps policy makers, researchers, and communities explore data on releases of toxic substances from…
Midori de Habich

Sustainable Systems Strengthening: “There Are No Cookie Cutter Solutions”

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Midori de Habich is technical director of the Abt-led Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS), USAID’s global flagship activity in health systems strengthening.
Community Influencers Help Improve Tuberculosis Screening

Community Influencers Help Improve Tuberculosis Screening

Impact Brief
Influencers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are helping increase detection and treatment of tuberculosis.
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Summer EBT for Children: A Way to Fight Low Food Security

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Millions of U.S. children receive free or reduced-price lunches each school day, but that number drops greatly during summer. In 2014, summer nutrition programs reached only about 16 percent of the children who received food assistance during the year…
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USAID-funded Project Yields New Farm Businesses

Impact Brief
The Feed the Future Egypt Rural Agribusiness Strengthening Project’s internship program prepares trains young graduates to enter the agribusiness field.
Overcoming Undermatching in Postsecondary Education

Overcoming Undermatching in Postsecondary Education

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Where students go to college is key to their educational attainment and later economic success. However, 41 percent of students nationally and about half of those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds undermatch—meaning they don’t attend college or they…
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Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE)

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The Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) study was designed to produce rigorous evidence for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers about the effectiveness of nine career pathways approaches that sought to increase credentials, employment, and self-sufficiency among low-income, low-skilled Americans.