Country Focused

Ensuring Access to Technical Resource Across Countries

RISE is positioned to provide service delivery, technical assistance (TA), and health systems support to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. RISE partners are present in 46 countries, and RISE has directly supported COVID-19 emergency response programs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, and Rwanda. Please visit the Country Focused pages for more information on the specific tool developed and utilized in each country.

Afghanistan

Scope of Work:

  • The RISE project in Afghanistan has provided technical assistance (TA) to the use of USG-donated Medtronic PB560 mechanical ventilators, as well as provision of critical care of COVID-19 patients.

Bangladesh

Scope of Work:

      • The RISE project in Bangladesh has provided clinical care TA provision of critical care of COVID-19 patients and support the use of medical devices within ICU settings.

Ecuador

Scope of Work:

      • The RISE project in Ecuador has worked to improve vaccine health communication and has promoted vaccine uptake in hard-to-reach regions through mobile brigades.

      • The team is also working to strengthen the oxygen ecosystem in Ecuador by implementing and analyzing rapid facility assessments to inform healthcare worker oxygen training, scaling-up the nation's oxygen consumption tracking platforms, installing oxygen piping, and procuring liquid oxygen for clinical usage.

Team Contact: Dr. Michelle Grunauer (Michelle.Grunauer@jhpiego.org)

Ethiopia

Scope of Work:

The RISE project in Ethiopia has provided TA to respond to needs identified through consultation with MoH with a focus on the safe use of medical equipment in 95 healthcare facilities with intensive care units, and strengthening of comprehensive management of severe illness for COVID-19 patients in selected facilities. The project is currently building upon the achievements to date, as well as strengthening the national oxygen ecosystem, in alignment with the national emergency response.

Team Contact: Dr. Damtew Dagoye (Damtew.Woldemariam@jhpiego.org)

Ghana

Scope of Work: The RISE Ghana team has worked on a variety of projects focused on building local capacity and ensuring effective rapid response to COVID-19. RISE Ghana is rapidly expanding vaccination sites and staff to implement targeted campaign and facility-bases immunization activities in coordination with national and local partners. The team has also strengthened oxygen infrastructure and trained healthcare workers on advanced respiratory support to ensure health workers have the skills necessary to care for critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Team contact: Pass Kobina Forson (PaaKobina.Forson@jhpiego.org)

India

Scope of Work: The RISE project in India has adopted a pan-India approach working across 3,000 health facilities partnering with local academic institutions, our work focused across five thematic areas:

  1. Clinical Case Management

  2. Oxygen

  3. Lab and Surveillence

  4. Vaccines

  5. Biomedical Waste Management

Team contact: Vineet Srivastava (Vineet.Srivastava@jhpiego.org)

Kenya

Scope of Work: RISE Kenya has strengthened health facilities by implementing health worker training and improving facility capacity to provide adequate care for COVID-19 patients. RISE Kenya utilized an adapted curriculum to train local champions in stratified case management to triage, stabilize, and refer COVID-19 patients.

  • The team helped provide technical assistance focused on facility readiness to provide critical care services and management trainings, with a particular focus on health care providers’ knowledge and skills related to critical care, onsite mentorship on utilization and rational use of oxygen, supplemental oxygen support and ventilator care for COVID-19 management of critically ill patients.

  • The Kenya RISE team currently provides installation support for oxygen infrastructure, such as Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants and/or oxygen piping at 5 select sites across the nation.

Team contact: Rosemary Njura Njogu (Rosemary.Njogu@jhpiego.org)​

Lesotho

Scope of Work: The RISE project in Lesotho has provided COVID-19 rapid response training, clinical case management TA, and vaccination support. RISE Lesotho has worked to address key challenges related to equipping hospitals with vital supplies and equipment to manage COVID-19 patients, including oxygen supplies and clinical capacity building. Additionally, the team works to improve COVID-19 vaccination coverage and demand generation across the nation by utilizing existing HIV networks and relationships to engage with the community.

Team contact: Mosele Peshoane (Mosele.Peshoane@jhpiego.org)

Mozambique

Scope of Work: RISE Mozambique has supported strengthening of the physical infrastructure of COVID treatment facilities in Mozambique to improve capacity to care for patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and has improved health professional capacity to manage patients requiring hospitalization, due to COVID-19. RISE Mozambique continues to support both the health care system and health professionals in maintaining readiness for the future emergence of variants of interest and associated surges in case numbers. The team has established end to end infrastructure, including adding piping and electricity, to facilitate immediate oxygen use for clients. This included not just physical infrastructure but also brand new COVID -19 protocols and job aids, like the creation of simple facility-based oxygen dashboards to track and monitor daily consumption.

Team contact: Adriana Santos (Adriana.Santos@jhpiego.org)

Rwanda

Scope of Work: RISE Rwanda works to ensure access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, build community confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, and strengthen safety monitoring systems including for adverse events following immunization (AEFI). Additionally, the team has strengthened COVID-19 case management at community and health facility levels through activities such as International clinical case series webinars.

Team contact: Marie Rose Kayirangwa (MarieRose.Kayirangwa@jhpiego.org)