We describe the principles of prevention science, provide examples of efficacious preventive interventions, describe challenges and potential solutions to take efficacious prevention policies and programmes to scale, and conclude with recommendations to reduce the burden of adolescent mortality and morbidity worldwide through preventive intervention.
Putting the available evidence together suggests a favorable environment for scaling up text messaging interventions but leaves important knowledge gaps regarding how best to take text messaging programmes to scale and how to use text messaging to enhance communication and care in general.
These include: Seek the national TB and Tobacco control programmes' endorsements for the intervention Work with the national programmes to develop a plan to scale up the intervention Develop a proposal to conduct embedded research to inform further scaling up.
In collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, Regional Health Bureaus, the Ethiopia Midwifery and Paediatric associations, NGOs, donors and academic institutions, the programme aims to scale up maternal and newborn care in 5 zones covering a total population of 4 million between 2015 and 2018.
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, general secretary, World YWCA, Switzerland and goodwill ambassador, Africa Union campaign to end child marriage Now there's increased understanding and global attention on child marriage, I'm hoping that there will be more resources on the ground that reach the girls and more programmes brought to scale.
New, innovative approaches should still be able to emerge and receive funding to run pilot programmes, but programmes which wish to scale up or replicate, should have increasingly robust evidence of impact.
This initiative was the first step of a national programme that aims to scale up MDR in all referral health facilities that offer emergency obstetric care in Senegal.
The key functions of UNICEF Programmes are to provide technical leadership, sector specific technical guidance, support to country offices to influence national programmes to go to scale with proven interventions as well as manage and disseminate programme knowledge and experiences.
