VITAL STRATEGIES INC
Programs
Program 1 [2020]
RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES:IN 2020 RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ADVANCING THE INITIATIVE'S TWO MAIN GOALS OF SAVING 100 MILLION LIVES FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND PREVENTING EPIDEMICS. GIVEN COVID-19, RTSL ALSO SCALED UP PANDEMIC RESPONSE EFFORTS IN THE US AND GLOBALLY. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FROM RESOLVE'S CORE PROGRAM AREAS ARE DESCRIBED BELOW.COVID-19: RTSL AND VITAL STRATEGIES EXPERTS PRODUCED 22 GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS THAT INFORMED THE RESPONSE OF GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE TO COVID-19 ON CRITICAL TOPICS SUCH AS THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEASURES, CONSIDERATIONS TO SAFELY REOPEN SCHOOLS, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RAPID MORTALITY SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS. RTSL AND VITAL STRATEGIES ALSO FACILITATED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARTNERSHIP FOR EVIDENCE-BASED RESPONSE TO COVID-19 (PERC), A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP THAT SUPPORTS EVIDENCE-BASED MEASURES TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON AFRICAN UNION (AU) MEMBER STATES. AS SOON AS COVID-19 EMERGED, RTSL MADE RAPID, FLEXIBLE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO 21 COUNTRIES. BECAUSE OF THESE GRANTS, 15,000 CASES OF COVID-19 WERE INVESTIGATED IN AFRICA AND 35,000 CONTACTS WERE TRACED, 60,000 LAB SAMPLES WERE TRANSPORTED, 3,000 RESPONSE STAFF AND 1,500 LAB STAFF WERE TRAINED, AND 194 COVID-19 MOLECULAR LABS WERE ACTIVATED. RTSL'S LEGAL AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM SUPPORTED SIX COUNTRIES DEVELOP 29 LEGAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS AFFECTING MORE THAN 160 MILLION PEOPLE THAT ENABLED GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION TO COMBAT COVID-19 WHILE PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS. IN THE US, RTSL BROUGHT TOGETHER THE COUNTRY'S LEADING TECH EXPERTS TO DEVELOP NEW SOFTWARE TO ENHANCE US JURISDICTIONS' RESPONSE TO COVID-19 INCLUDING TOOLS SUCH AS EPI VIADUCT AND EPI LOCATOR.PREVENT EPIDEMICS: IN 2020 RTSL WAS PROUD TO CONTINUE STRENGTHENING PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS GLOBALLY. RTSL GRADUATED THE FIRST COHORT OF 25 MID-LEVEL MANAGERS REPRESENTING 7 COUNTRIES FROM THE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS COURSE. RTSL SUPPORTED THE ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ESTABLISH A NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR HEALTH SECURITY (NAPHS) ACCELERATION TEAM AND SUPPORTED NIGERIA AND LIBERIA INCREASE THEIR JOINT EXTERNAL EVALUATION (JEE) SCORES TO FIND, STOP, AND PREVENT EPIDEMICS. RTSL ALSO PROVIDED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO IMPROVE SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES' ACCESS TO AND UTILIZATION OF WORLD BANK REGIONAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS ENHANCEMENT (REDISSE) FUNDING. FROM MID-2019 TO MID-2020, REDISSE DISBURSEMENTS INCREASED FROM 12% TO 28% IN NIGERIA AND 12% TO 31% IN LIBERIA.CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH: IN SUPPORT OF TRANS FAT ELIMINATION GOALS, RTSL PARTNERED WITH THE WHO TO LAUNCH THE SECOND ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE REPLACE INITIATIVE, SUPPORTED THE LAUNCH OF WHO'S FIRST-EVER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR COUNTRIES THAT HAVE ENACTED BEST POLICIES FOR ELIMINATING TRANS FAT IN THEIR COUNTRIES, AND SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT AND PASSAGE OF BEST PRACTICE TRANS FAT ELIMINATION REGULATIONS IN BRAZIL AND TURKEY. OVER 1.3 MILLION INDIVIDUALS HAVE RECEIVED HYPERTENSION CARE AND TREATMENT SINCE THE LAUNCH OF RTSL'S WORK AND IN 2020 RTSL SUPPORTED THE LAUNCH OF HYPERTENSION DIAGNOSIS, CARE AND TREATMENT IN WEST VISAYAS, WORKED WITH ETHIOPIA TO SUPPORT ADOPTION OF EVIDENCE-BASED HYPERTENSION GUIDELINES AND IMPROVE ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE ANTI-HYPERTENSION TREATMENT IN 62 HEALTH CENTERS AND TEN PRIMARY HOSPITALS, LAUNCHED THE NIGERIA HYPERTENSION CONTROL INITIATIVE LAUNCH WITH THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH THAT WILL SCALE UP TO INCLUDE OVER 600 FACILITIES, AND CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR EXPANSION OF THE INDIA HYPERTENSION CONTROL INITIATIVE (IHCI), SUPPORTING MORE THAN 900,000 PATIENTS IN 10 STATES ACROSS 2,884 HEALTH FACILITIES. THE SIMPLE APP LAUNCHED IN BANGLADESH IN FEBRUARY 2020 TO HELP MANAGE BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS AND MEDICATIONS, AND A TELEMEDICINE FEATURE ON THE SIMPLE APP LAUNCHED IN TWO STATES IN INDIA TO SUPPORT THE COVID RESPONSE. LINKSCOMMUNITY.ORG, THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS MAINTAINED BY RTSL, WHO AND CDC FOUNDATION, LAUNCHED A REDESIGNED TOOLKIT THAT ALLOWS USERS TO EASILY SEARCH AND FILTER RESOURCES RELATED TO HYPERTENSION CONTROL, SODIUM REDUCTION, AND TRANS FAT ELIMINATION.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$69.4MProgram 2 [2020]
TOBACCO CONTROL MASS MEDIA WORK:IN 2020, VITAL STRATEGIES CAMPAIGNS REACHED' AT LEAST 2 BILLION PEOPLE TO WARN ABOUT THE HARMS OF TOBACCO USE AND CONVEY THE IMPORTANCE OF TOBACCO CONTROL.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$19.1MProgram 3 [2020]
DATA FOR HEALTH PROGRAMS:VITAL STRATEGIES ACHIEVED THE FOLLOWING ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PART OF THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES DATA IN 2020: SUCCESSFULLY UNDERTOOK OUTREACH, ENGAGEMENT, INITIATIVE ENROLLMENT AND WORKPLAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE FOLLOWING NEW COUNTRIES: CAMBODIA, CAMEROON, ETHIOPIA, MOZAMBIQUE, SENEGAL, THAILAND, VIETNAM. AND ZIMBABWE. IN ADDITION, WE BEGAN RE-ENGAGED ACTIVITIES WITH BOTH BOLIVIA AND INDONESIA THE DATA IMPACT TEAM CO-LED THE REVISION OF GLOBAL GUIDANCE ON VITAL STATISTICS REPORTS AND PRODUCED A NEW RESOURCE KIT, WHICH INCLUDES A GUIDE, REPORT TEMPLATE, AND EXCEL WORKBOOK, TO ENABLE THE PRODUCTION OF A VITAL STATISTICS REPORT. IT HAS BEEN USED IN RWANDA AND TANZANIA. IN RESPONSE TO A GREATER DEMAND FOR RELIABLE HEALTH DATA TO GUIDE RAPID RESPONSE EFFORTS AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE GLOBAL GRANTS PROGRAM PREPARED AND LAUNCHED A SPECIAL GRANT SUBMISSION ROUND TO FUND DATA FOR HEALTH ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE. A TOTAL OF 12 GRANT PROJECTS WERE APPROVED FOR MORE THAN $550,000. AN ADDITIONAL 13 GRANT PROJECTS WERE FUNDED FOR $920,000 EARLIER IN 2020 COVERING VARIOUS WORK RELATED TO CIVIL REGISTRATION/VITAL STATISTICS AND DATA IMPACT ACTIVITIES. THE CANCER REGISTRY PROGRAM FOCUSED ON STRENGTHENING POPULATION-BASED CANCER REGISTRIES IN THE FOCUS COUNTRIES OF MYANMAR, TANZANIA, VIETNAM, AND ZAMBIA, WITH A SPECIAL PROJECT IN RWANDA. IN PARTICULAR, THE PROGRAM SUCCESSFULLY COLLABORATED WITH MINISTRIES OF HEALTH (MOH) TO INTEGRATE CANCER SURVEILLANCE INTO CURRENT HEALTH SYSTEM PROCESSES AND INFRASTRUCTURE. THIS INCLUDED ESTABLISHING CENTRAL COORDINATION UNITS WITH THE MOH TO CREATE ALIGNMENT AND TRANSPARENCY ACROSS ALL PBCRS. THESE UNITS WILL IMPROVE DECISION MAKING, PLANNING, AND COSTING PBCRS TO INFORM BUDGETING AND SUSTAINABILITY.IN ADDITION, THE FOLLOWING HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE COUNTRY SPECIFIC SUCCESSES EXPERIENCED IN 2020: COLOMBIA: THE COLOMBIA RURAL VITAL (CRV) PROGRAM WAS SCALED NATIONALLY AS PART OF THE RESPONSE TO EXCESS MORTALITY CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ALLOWING SMS-BASED DEATH NOTIFICATION TO EXPAND TO OVER 400 MUNICIPALITIES. ADDITIONALLY, THE FIRST NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY REPORT WAS PRODUCED FOR THE COUNTRY AND CORRESPONDING VIRTUAL TRAINING CURRICULUM ON ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF ROAD SAFETY DATA WAS DEVELOPED FOR SUB-NATIONAL REGIONAL ANALYSIS. RWANDA: A DIGITAL REGISTRATION SYSTEM WAS LAUNCHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN HEALTH FACILITIES AND THE REGISTRATION POINTS IN THE COMMUNITY. RWANDA ALSO PUBLISHED ITS FIRST EVER NATIONAL VITAL STATISTICS REPORT ON 2019 DATA. CAMBODIA: THE FIRST VITAL STATISTICS WERE PRODUCED FOR THE COUNTRY IN THE FORM OF A PROVINCIAL REPORT FOR KEP PROVINCE. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT TWO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, I.E., THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF IDENTIFICATION (GDI) AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS (NIS), SHARED CIVIL REGISTRATION DATA AND WORKED COLLABORATIVELY TO PRODUCE A REPORT. PERU: TWO GRANT PROJECTS RESULTED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COVID-19 SURVEILLANCE DASHBOARD IN PERU AS WELL AS REVISED EXCESS MORTALITY CALCULATIONS FOLLOWING THE RECOVERY OF THOUSANDS OF PAPER DEATH CERTIFICATES PREVIOUSLY OMITTED FROM THE COUNTRY'S ONLINE MORTALITY SYSTEM. MYANMAR: REGISTRY STAFF COMPLETED 2019 INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY DATA COLLECTION, DESPITE SEVERAL COVID-19-RELATED CHALLENGES. AS A RESULT OF THESE EFFORTS, THE TEAM SUCCESSFULLY ANALYZED THE DATA AND PRODUCED THE FIRST PUBLIC-FACING NATIONAL CANCER REPORT FOR MYANMAR.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$13.2M
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