Resources

The primer provides the data, messages, and resources to help understand the planning, policies, and technologies involved in oxygen delivery scale-up. The materials are useful to anyone who wants to learn about scaling up access to oxygen and integrating oxygen delivery across national and subnational policies, programs, and health budgets.This primer was originally published in 2017, with an updated version in 2025.

Oxygen therapy is an essential part of ending preventable deaths among children and adults globally. However, reliable access to oxygen, paired with pulse oximetry, remains inadequate across many health facilities in low- and middle-income countries for many reasons. Limited data, perceptions about costs, poor understanding of the impact on health outcomes, and the complexity of integration and maintenance across the health system all contribute to decreased access.Scaling up access to oxygen is one of the most effective and critical actions decision-makers can take to improve health outcomes and save lives. The Oxygen Delivery Toolkit: Resources to plan and scale medical oxygen provides materials to help decision-makers, implementers, and advocates plan, manage, and communicate the value of scaling up oxygen delivery systems and access to oxygen and pulse oximetry.This guide provides a summary of the toolkit resources, as well as intended users. The toolkit is available at www.path.org/oxygen-delivery-toolkit.Updated in February 2025 to reflect new or revised resources in the toolkit.

Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis reached the World Health Organization’s (WHO) elimination threshold in both Plateau and Nasarawa States in north-central Nigeria in 2017 and 2021, respectively.However, no evidence-informed plan was created to detect or respond to potential recrudescence of the eliminated diseases while waiting for national elimination to occur. To meet this gap, Plateau and Nasarawa States were selected to pilot the development of the WHO integrated post validation/verification surveillance (PVS) planning toolkit for neglected tropical diseases.PATH conducted the pilot, working in collaboration with The Carter Center – Nigeria as a local partner.

The Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) has been implementing the five-year Sustainable WASH Project in Ethiopia to strengthen water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in schools, health facilities, and communities, contributing directly to Ethiopia’s One WASH National Program and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Safe Water Initiative 2025 strategy.Acting as a central hub, MWA has coordinated partners’ activities in the Amhara Region, and supported the expansion of improved WASH services. In August 2024, PATH conducted the endline evaluation of WASH services in 26 selected health facilities across Dera, Farta, and North Mecha Woredas.This evaluation focused on assessing the quality, functionality, and improvements in WASH services, particularly for facilities implementing the Clean Clinic Model. The findings highlight progress achieved since baseline and midline assessments, while emphasizing the challenges faced due to Ethiopia’s ongoing conflict and climate change impacts.

This fact sheet on the history of vaccines gives a brief overview of disease rates before and after the development of vaccines.