This is the final report on reducing child morbidity and strengthening health care systems program throughout the years of 2003 to 2007.

This year's annual report celebrates the remarkable evolution that has taken place in global health since the turn of the millennium, and we highlight some of the practical contributions MSH has made to support governments, service delivery NGOs, and other local organizations in that transition.

Management Sciences for Health provides a full range of services to help West African health care managers and leaders strengthen health systems to deal with the challenges of ill health, unmet need for family planning, urbanization, civil conflict, and environmental degradation.

MSH renders services to children including: clinical nutrition, food provision, shelter, and child protection.

The Clinic Supervisor’s Manual is a collection of adaptable tools and guidelines designed to help clinic supervisors and clinic managers achieve objective improvements in the quality of health care. The manual is especially useful for managers supervising integrated health services, who, on any given day, may be called on to support the provision of a full range of primary health services.

This is a brochure describing the different programs and countries the Management Sciences for Health occupies.

Although there are many descriptions of fragile states, the two criteria on which they are judged are legitimacy—government will and capacity to provide core services and basic security—and effectiveness in providing services and security.

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international organization dedicated to closing the gap between what is known and what is done about major problems in public health in developing nations.

The MSH team is commit- ted to working with partners and local networks, organizations, and staff to extend PEPFAR’s reach and impact by helping to improve and scale up HIV & AIDS services around the world.

The Drug Management for Childhood Illness (DMCI) Manual is a tool to assess the status of the drugs and medical supplies that are needed to implement the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) health promotion strategy.

This guide provides complete information about the MOST for TB concept, process, and assessment instrument.  It also includes all necessary materials for conducting a three-day MOST for TB workshop.  The guide can therefore be used by those who want to learn about MOST for TB for the first time as well as by those who are preparing to carry out a MOST for TB assessment.

The India Local Initiatives Program adapted a model used in Indonesia and Bangladesh to implement the government’s reproductive and child health strategy. From 1999 to 2003, three Indian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provided services for 784,000 people in four northern states.

This booklet is to explain the improvements MSH has made in the numerous countries they work in.

This fact sheet was made to show how MSH works to strengthen health systems, improve services, and build capacity.

MSH has assembled a team of nine partner organizations with complementary capabilities and experience and high standards of practice.The team offers the institutional capacity, technical experts, and performance record to meet the challenges of TASC3 in service delivery, health policy reform, capacity-building, commodity management, monitoring and evaluation, and community mobilization and behavior change.

Project REACH, which worked in 3 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces with a $38-million budget, increased the contraceptive prevalence rate from 6% to 26%, while the smaller project, which worked in three areas, achieved increases of 24–27 percentage points.

MSH top accomplishments for 2006 include: rapidly increasing contraceptive use in three remote rural areas of Afghanistan, reaching 300,000 children with services in Congo,  testing 112,200 people for HIV in Malawi, delivering 280,000 tons of formula, supplying 3.8 million doses of antimalaria medicine, assisting 11,000 orphaned by AIDS, reaching 550,000 clients per month, bolstering the workforce at 219 health facilities, exchanging information across 11,394 kilometers, and facilitating the flow of nearly 2 billion in global fund grants.

The focus of this issue of The Manager is on public-private partnerships. The issue defines public-private partnerships, lists potential partners at different administrative levels, reviews the factors behind the growth in partnerships, looks at some of the benefits and challenges of partnerships, and offers thoughts on preparing for and implementing them. It also describes the steps involved in developing a contractual relationship and provides examples of several successful partnerships.

This issue of The Manager explores different types of mechanisms of coordination to help you choose which type of coordination best meets the needs of your organization or program.  The issue reviews the forms of coordination for rapid response in health emergencies as well as for long-term sustainable action.  There are guidelines for setting up a new coordinating body or breathing life into an existing entity.