As African countries adopt the Sustainable Development Goals and prepare to meet the ambitious targets for 2030, strong regional cooperation will become increasingly important to ensure commitments become action. USAID and the African Strategies for Health (ASH) project, led by MSH, invite you to a side session alongside the 69th World Health Assembly to discuss the role of regional actors in the African health sector and opportunities to leverage greater collective impact on health outcomes through strengthened collaboration and partnership between global, multilateral, regional, and country-level stakeholders. 

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Join the African Strategies for Health (ASH) project at the Eighth Annual ICT4D Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. This year’s conference theme is From Innovation to Impact: Using Technology to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Wednesday, May 18
16:30 - 17:30
​Nairobi, Kenya
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ASH will co-host a participatory breakout session with the United Nations Foundation’s Digital Impact Alliance focused on the implementation of the Principles for Digital Development. The session will give implementers and supporters of digital health interventions the opportunity to discuss their experiences using the Principles for Digital Development as well as practical recommendations for improving adherence to the Principles.

Featuring the mHealth Compendium Special Edition: Reaching Scale
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At the ICT4D conference, ASH will release the sixth and final edition of the mHealth Compendium Series, a special volume featuring case studies of programs that have moved mobile technologies for health to scale. 

More than 150 programs have been featured in the mHealth Compendium >> Access the online database to browse through the case studies.

The African Strategies for Health project (ASH) will join thousands of policymakers, program implementers, researchers, and maternal health advocates from across the world at the 2016 Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Join us for two interactive discussions.

Accelerating African Union's Commitment to Women and Children
Monday, May 16
10-11:30 AM 
Bella Center Room 178

​​The African Union and other regional bodies play a critical role in advancing health and development and holding governments accountable for national and regional targets across the African continent. Join ASH at the Women Deliver conference for an interactive, high-level discussion on the lessons and opportunities of the African Union’s Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Mortality in Africa (CARMMA).  

From Evidence to Action: Building Skills for Evidence-Based Maternal Health Advocacy
12.30 – 16.00
Bella Center Room 178

Hosted in collaboration with Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and Simavi, this engaging, interactive workshop will develop your skills as an effective advocate for maternal health. Working with exciting evidence that misoprostol is a safe & effective medicine to prevent & treat postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal death, participants will develop advocacy strategies to promote policy change in support of misoprostol’s role in PPH.