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Pathfinder’s Legacy of Sustainable Health Systems Strengthening

Ethiopia,   Kenya,   Togo,   Niger,   Bangladesh,   Burkina Faso,   Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pathfinder envisions strong, inclusive, resilient health systems that ensure and integrate coverage, access, and use of quality, person-centered sexual and reproductive health and rights services into universal health coverage. This brief highlights the legacies of four Pathfinder projects that supported sustainable health systems strengthening around the world.

These snapshots describe Pathfinder’s strategic efforts across the world to advance the following:

  • Rights, agency, and choice among individuals and communities, particularly women, girls, and other historically marginalized persons and groups;
  • Universal access to diverse, responsive points of care at all levels of the health system—from community to facility to district to tertiary—for a minimum package of quality essential health services;
  • Health system resilience and readiness to withstand shocks and stressors from climate, conflict, pandemics, and other emergencies, throughout a cycle of preparation, adaptation, and recovery;
  • An enabling policy and social environment in which these individual-, community-, facility-, and system-level ideals can be achieved; and
  • Continuous monitoring and measurement of the impact and longevity of HSS interventions to inform iterative adaptation, replication, and sustained scale-up of nationally led successful programs

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Inside Kano State’s Bold Effort to Prevent Cervical Cancer

“This topic touches me deeply, as I lost my wife to cervical cancer. That painful experience has shown me how…

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Workshop on preventing cervical cancer in Kano State, Nigeria.
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Celebrating High-Impact Maternal Health Innovations

On this International Day of Action for Women’s Health, let’s listen to women and invest in health care that they…

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Community Health Worker counsels maternal health client.
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When a Religious Leader Becomes an Ambassador for Family Planning

“A few years ago, in the space of just 25 days, I lost two children; it’s something that I will…

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Religious leaders in Boboye, Niger.
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10 actions pour promouvoir l’inclusion linguistique dans le secteur DSSR / 10 Actions for Advancing Language Inclusivity in SRHR

Récap, réflexions et ressources de « Qui n’a pas la parole ? Briser les barrières linguistiques dans le domaine des…

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Task-sharing: A High-impact Solution for Improving Health Equity in an era of Dwindling Foreign Assistance

A fresh look at how task-sharing can be optimized in Nigeria By Amina Dorayi, Country Director, and Fanna Mairami, Senior…

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Supervision visit with community health extension worker at New Era Hospital in Kaduna state. Photo by: Bayo Ewuola
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Pathfinder Annual Report 2024

Amplifying Local Partnerships for a Sustainable Future Almost 70 years ago, Pathfinder started as a family planning organization—and we have…

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Mobilizing Civil Society to Save Women’s Lives

By Amina Dorayi, Country Director, Pathfinder International Nigeria In Nigeria’s Kano state, maternal mortality rates are higher than the national…

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International Women’s Day: In Their Words

Across Pathfinder, we are opening doors for women and girls to forge their own path ahead, live the lives they…

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A wedding invitation you can’t accept: Pathfinder’s campaign against child marriage in Pakistan

By Ali Asghar, Senior Communication Manager, SA-MENA and Sarah Peck, Development Communications Advisor “Please join us in this grand celebration…

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Reaching Young People through Edutainment: Reflection from the GAMIVAL Experience!

As the world grapples with the challenges of engaging young people in critical conversations about their health and wellbeing, innovative…

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Pathways December 2024: Women Lead on Climate and Health

The urgency of our mission is underscored by stark realities. In 2022 alone, over 110 million people in Africa were…

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Contributing to Global Health Security and Protecting Women’s Health

By: Madiha Latif As the world looks to the end of 2024—which has seen COVID-19 and destructive weather become part…

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