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October 4, 2011 | Program Result
Beginning in 2002, the MTCT-Plus Initiative established family-based HIV care and treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand, linking HIV care and treatment of mothers to existing programs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
April 1, 2004 | Program Result
OWL, the Older Women's League, a grassroots membership organization devoted to improving the quality of life for midlife and older women, developed media-skills training and provided it to 175 of its chapter members to prepare them as spokespersons in OWL's national Caring for Caregivers Campaign.
February 1, 2003 | Program Result
Preterm deliveries and normal-term small babies comprise an exceedingly high-risk population, with nearly two-thirds of all infant deaths occurring from among newborns in these categories.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
Starting in August 1999, the Central Massachusetts Area Health Education Center in Worcester distributed culturally sensitive health information to Native American women of the Nipmuc Nation in central Massachusetts.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Wholistic Health & Healing Association conducted a two-day forum in Sacramento, Calif., in April 2000 on uterine fibroids and African-American women.
October 1, 2001 | Program Result
Starting in July 1999, Medical Media Associates, Buffalo, N.Y., developed and evaluated the first of a series of videos for breast cancer patients: "Woman to Woman: A Video Series for Breast Cancer Patients." The videos were intended to provide psychosocial support as well as medical information.
September 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1999 to 2000, researchers at the Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. designed a study to determine whether encouraging women to breast-feed their infants would reduce health-care costs as well as improve children's health.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1991 to 1996, investigators at Harvard Medical School examined the effects of Medicaid eligibility expansions on a range of maternal and neonatal outcomes in California and South Carolina.