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Policies that build strong primary health care systems are essential to advancing health equity— but they are complex and difficult to design. PATH created the PHC in Policies Tracker as a consolidated source of information to equip stakeholders including policymakers, advocates, implementers, and donors with information about existing policies that shape PHC systems. This new virtual public dashboard tool maps and analyzes data about national-level health policy documents relevant to primary health care (PHC) in 26 low- and middle- income countries—comparing content of these policies with recommendations laid out in key global-level guidance frameworks such as the WHO PHC Monitoring Framework and Indicators (MFI). The tracker aims to improve understanding of policies for PHC in LMICs, add to the global conversation about how to design robust policy for PHC, and help users identify high-impact opportunities for action toward better health for all. This brief provides an overview of the findings and key takeaways from the tracker project, as well as information about methodology and limitations. Access the tracker at bit.ly/PHC_policy_tracker

PATH conducted primary and secondary research to inform a regional priority assessment on diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa, including desk research and review of global health publications, as well as direct discussions with subnational, national, and regional global health stakeholders.Findings from this assessment have been organized into a review of diagnostic priorities, in addition to a supply security landscape.

Since 2016, PATH has been implementing DREAMS to keep adolescent girls and young women ages 9 to 24 years old HIV-free by providing them with critical, cross-cutting services aimed to prevent HIV acquisition. From 2020–2023, the PATH-led Chak a Chaka project provided DREAMS graduates with further opportunities to save, build, and employ entrepreneurial skills and create supportive and sustainable networks that protect their health and wellbeing, and that of their children and families. This learning exercise report, based on end-of-project focus group discussions with Chak a Chaka participants, provides lessons learned and best practices from Chak a Chaka to inform future integrated economic-HIV prevention interventions for DREAMS-graduated and other young women in Kenya.

In Kenya’s Kakamega County, citizen-led social accountability projects and data-driven advocacy led by the Kakamega County Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Civil Society Organizations Alliance (MNCH Alliance), with support from PATH, have created a sustainable model for holding local decision-makers accountable and significantly improved health outcomes and quality of care for women and children in the county.

PATH’s MNCHN Asset Tracker was designed to provide advocates from civil society organizations (CSOs) with an innovative tool for data-driven decision-making. To ensure this new tool reached advocates who could benefit from it, PATH partnered with the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Kenya, a program of the Access to Medicines Platform (ATMP), to disseminate the Asset Tracker to advocates from CSOs working in Kenya’s Lake Region Economic Bloc and train them in its use. As a result, CSO advocates have been better able to access data on MNCHN interventions in Kenya, identify gaps in the provision of services, and target their communications with decision-makers in their counties to achieve health outcomes and improve quality of care.