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The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has brought together a proven and dynamic team, including Project HOPE, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Initiatives Inc., and Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc. We support health programs by improving the behavior of the people seeking and providing health care and improving the health care systems themselves. No other organization has been as focused as long on behavior as has AED, as for more than 20 years AED has improved and broadened the applications of its first behavior-change breakthroughs. And with our partners, we bring a solid record of strengthening health care consumers and the health systems that serve them.

Capacities include: the design and implementation of health and medical training programs (AED, HOPE); research-based communication (AED); media design and production in support of behavior change (AED); operations research (AED, SSDS); maternal and child health and child survival (AED, HOPE, ACNM); women’s health, including ob-gyn (HOPE, ACNM); primary health care (HOPE, AED); nutrition (AED); medical, surgical, dental, nursing, and allied health education (HOPE); emergency medical systems (HOPE); health care management and administration (AED, SSDS, Initiatives); biomedical engineering (HOPE); physical rehabilitation (HOPE); laboratory medicine (HOPE); provider and community education in specific disease topics (AED, HOPE); health information systems (AED, Initiatives); advocacy (AED, Initiatives), training of trainers (AED, HOPE), and health policy (all); and experience with national health ministries and international donors (all).

Specifically, all team partners have worked with USAID Missions for many years throughout the world. Through prompt, professional assistance, The AED Team has demonstrated how to change behavior and how to create systems that facilitate health and healthy behavior throughout the PHN sector. We understand what fosters and what limits health in specific contexts.

• AED honed its behavior-change techniques through projects such as LINKAGES, BASICS I and II, NetMark, RPM Plus, Advance Africa, West and Central Africa Family Health and AIDS Prevention, SMARTWORK, FANTA, MOST, PROFILES, REDUCE, ALIVE, and SARA. Currently, we run 16 U.S. Government IQCs.
• Project HOPE has trained more than two million health care workers, using the “train the trainer” methodology to produce millions of better-trained health-care professionals worldwide.
• ACNM, based on its strong commitment to listen to women, promotes quality midwifery care through programs to enhance the skills of midwives, strengthen midwifery associations, and improve maternal and child health. Current activities include PRIME, the MAPS Initiative, and the Maternal and Neonatal Health Project.
• Initiatives’ focus is on building technical and management capacity through partnerships with national and local organizations, as in its Zambian Family Planning Services Project, SEATS, the UNDP HIV/AIDS Asia Project, and the PHCI Quality Assurance Project.
• SSDS has drawn more clients to health facilities by upgrading clinical services and systems. Their assistance is guided by input from clients and service providers, as in such projects as Partnerships for Health Reform and the Health Policy and Systems Strengthening Project.