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• A Nationwide Quality Improvement Project to Accelerate Ghana’s Progress Toward Millennium Development Goal Four
  The authors describe the successes to date of a rapid, national scale-up quality improvement intervention to accelerate the achievement of Millennium Development Goal Four (reduce maternal and infant mortality) in Ghana, based on IHI's work in Ghana as part of the Project Fives Alive! initiative.
• Eliminating Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Will Require Major Improvements in Maternal and Child Health Services
  Researchers modelled how poor access to routine antenatal and postnatal health services contributes three times more to overall mother-to-child HIV transmission than do current suboptimal levels of delivery of anti-HIV-transmission interventions.
• No Opportunity to Die
  A skilled, assertive, and passionate young community health nurse has over three years declared, deployed, and secured a zero tolerance policy for maternal and neonatal mortality at a subdistrict health post in Ghana’s Central region.
• What Gets Published: The Characteristics of Quality Improvement Research Articles from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  The authors reviewed the published scientific literature to describe the characteristics of reports of quality improvement research from low- and middle-income countries.
• Using Quality Improvement to Accelerate Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment Coverage in South Africa
  The authors report on a quality improvement approach, using learning networks to teach simple data-driven methods for addressing system failures, with increased training and resource inputs, to accelerate HAART initiation in South Africa.