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Afghanistan Health Initiative

The Afghanistan Health Initiative aims to reduce maternal, fetal, and neonatal mortality rates at Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital (RBH) -- a major public hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan -- by improving the quality of health care delivery through training programs for physicians and other staff, and facility improvements.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program is able to show progress toward one of its long-term goals. During 2004, the program demonstrated a drop in both the maternal morality rate and the predischarge neonatal rate.
  • The program has yet to demonstrate progress toward all of its measures. It expects to establish and update baseline and target data for its annual measures by the end of 2007.
  • To address its recruitment challenges (e.g. political instability, lack of available housing), HHS has been working closely with its grantees. As a result, these grantees have reported improved recruitment capabilites.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Reassessing, re-establishing, and strengthening appropriate methods for collecting morbidity/mortality baselines and measures for assessing impact of training.
  • Establishing regular procedures to ensure consistent, timely and complete data to impact decision-making and improve clinical and public health processes and systems.
  • Demonstrating through individual performance plans accountability for program performance.

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