Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University

Our goals are ambitious: self-reliant countries, healthy families, and resilient communities. We believe that all people, regardless of where they live, should have equitable access to high-quality, lifesaving health care delivered by competent and caring providers.

Every day, thousands of women, children and men die of preventable causes: cervical cancer, malaria, HIV, and complications from pregnancy and childbirth. We bring lifesaving care to those who need it the most. Whether we are pioneering a new way of thinking and doing to bring safe surgery to the billions worldwide who lack it or blazing a literal trail through mountains and valleys to reach the hardest to reach, we are relentless. We push for equality—ensuring women are equal partners in health and life. We innovate constantly—leading flagship partnerships to serve millions with health care they have never had before, building evidence to forge new policy and revolutionizing health services in communities worldwide.

We want every woman to give birth with a skilled, respectful midwife at her side. We look forward to the day when anyone can visit their local health provider for the primary health care they deserve. We know every child can be delivered HIV-free, live malaria-free, attain an education and reach their dreams. We believe in youth entrepreneurs, nurse-leaders and never saying “impossible.”

Jhpiego creates and delivers transformative health care solutions that save lives. In partnership with national governments, health experts, and local communities, we build health providers’ skills and develop systems that save lives now and guarantee healthier futures for women and their families.

Our success in 155 countries has been built on helping countries to help themselves. We partner with governments to initiate and adopt policies, implement systems, and build a confident and skilled workforce able to deliver high-quality services to every doorstep. We have shared knowledge, expertise and innovative practices to ensure that countries from Afghanistan to Zambia can improve the health of the most vulnerable families and strengthen communities in prosperous times as well as when disaster hits. Our focus has been on forging sustainable health systems through which countries care for themselves—from home to health facility.

With our partners, Jhpiego also builds the capacity of local organizations to operate with the best evidence-based skills and strategies. This includes building technical capacity as well as financial capacity, data-driven monitoring and evaluation, and governance, program and human resource management. The goal is to leverage our expertise to assist local organizations to operate efficiently, effectively and independent of donor support. Professional associations, civil society organizations, private facilities, and faith-based and community groups have all benefited from this assistance.

Jhpiego’s current portfolio is vast and implemented through a gender lens with an eye on health systems strengthening in the countries where we work. For more than four decades, we’ve introduced evidence-based innovations into global public health interventions to improve the lives of women, children and families in some of the most challenging areas for health.

Since 1998, Jhpiego has led four consecutive USAID global flagship programs to increase maternal and newborn survival. In the last five years, 15,178,822 women delivered in a Jhpiego-supported health facility with skilled care. And in 2018 alone, we helped governments of 12 low- to middle-income countries save the lives of ~ 81,000 children and 9,000 women through improved contraceptive services.

We aim to improve maternal health early, supporting evidence-based adolescent health programs to help young people reach their full potential, while introducing and expanding programs to detect and diagnose breast cancer. We’ve also reached nearly half a million women with cervical cancer prevention services and are actively expanding HPV vaccinations to protect girls from the disease, as well.

Our technical expertise includes infection prevention and control, surveillance, outbreak response—including for Ebola virus disease and COVID-19—and reducing the global burden of HIV. Since 2001, Jhpiego has supported HIV testing service programs in 34 countries, providing 10 million people with testing services, and linking more than 240,000 people living with HIV to care and treatment services. From 2009 to 2018, 3,870,544 men and boys were circumcised through Jhpiego programs, significantly reducing their chances of HIV infection. We are helping to eliminate TB by integrating TB prevention, care and treatment with all of our HIV programs in collaboration with ministries of health, national TB and HIV programs, educational institutions and nongovernmental organizations.

Combatting malaria is another key part of Jhpiego’s work. In 2019, our programs provided 1.9 million pregnant women with preventive treatment, 2.1 million children with seasonal malaria chemoprevention, and 19.7 million children and adults with prompt malaria confirmatory testing and appropriate treatment. This work is estimated to have averted about 19,729 deaths and 1.6 million disability-adjusted life years.

Jhpiego also expands quality surgical care to those most in need—including the 100,000 women who die each year from a lack of timely cesarean sections. We are a founding member of the G4 Alliance and are building the capacity of health providers to transform the way surgical care is delivered. Since we began this work in 2016, 58,899 major surgeries have been performed in four Jhpiego-supported countries – 32,596 of which were cesarean sections. In Tanzania alone, in less than two years, our program reduced surgical deaths by 50% across 40 health facilities.

Since Jhpiego’s inception, our work to save lives and improve health has reached people in 155 countries and touched more than one billion women and families. We currently have active programs in 39 countries across the globe.

We have consistently been a health care leader, fighting on the frontlines of every major health crisis since our founding. In recent years, this includes working with a team at Johns Hopkins University to develop an enhanced personal protective suit for health care workers in Ebola treatment centers, and coordinating with the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing on a COVID-19 training course for nurses across the globe.

In the last five years alone (2015-2019), Jhpiego support has positively affected women, children and health systems in some of the most challenging areas for health:

Maternal and newborn health
• 15,867,623 women gave birth in a health facility where Jhpiego has trained providers.
• 177,335 babies not breathing/crying at birth were successfully resuscitated at a health facility.

Family Planning Services
• 2,346,930 women voluntarily initiated postpartum family planning.

Adolescent Health
• 3,404,061 adolescents were tested for HIV.
• 51,139 adolescents are currently on antiretrovirals.
• 13,339 adolescents were newly enrolled on antiretrovirals.

Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment
• 314,476 women were screened for cervical cancer.
• 11,792 received treatment for suspect lesions on the same day.

HIV
• 10,824,110 people were tested for HIV and received their results.
• 3,166,377 men voluntarily chose medical male circumcision to help prevent HIV.
• 120,514 individuals were newly enrolled on antiretroviral therapy.
• 63,239 individuals started on oral prophylaxis to prevent HIV (2017–2019).

Malaria
• 78,189,247 people were provided with prompt malaria confirmatory testing and appropriate treatment.
• 19,428,473 individuals received medicine to prevent malaria.
• 7,157,434 pregnant women received two doses of intermittent preventive treatment.
• 7,498,334 pregnant women received insecticide-treated bed nets.

Health Workforce
• 107,681 individuals graduated from Jhpiego-supported health institutions and colleges.

Safe Surgery
• 58,899 major surgeries were performed in four countries where Jhpiego led this initiative.
• Of those, Safe Surgery 32,596 were cesarean sections (consistent with medically necessary standards).

Going forward, we know we must hold the line on progress toward our global health goals even as novel threats—like COVID-19—emerge. The new normal is a landscape focused on resilient, community-driven health systems, bolstered by a digitally enabled health work force, and solutions that decentralize care. Our global team is skilled in the work needed to build the stronger health systems and resilient communities of the future that will emerge from this, and future, crises.