Macro (an infoGroup Company) (NASDAQ:IUSA), today announced that it was awarded the MEASURE Phase III Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) contract by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The $142 million, five-year contract will serve as the Bureau for Global Health's primary demographic and health data collection effort.
Since 1979, Macro has been a major part of USAID's initiatives to help developing countries collect and use data to monitor and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programs. Over that period, Macro has assisted with more than 200 surveys in more than 80 developing countries. MEASURE DHS surveys are large, nationally representative efforts, typically including 5,000 to 30,000 households and more than 10,000 respondents. The surveys cover a range of topics including family planning, reproductive health, child health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, gender, and infectious diseases including malaria. The MEASURE DHS Phase III project also supports biomarker testing, providing countries with information on national rates of HIV, malaria, anemia, and other health threats.
"The MEASURE DHS project is considered the "˜gold standard' in national survey research," said Ann Way, the project director. "DHS surveys are widely respected and used worldwide," said Dr. Way. "For the new project, we will expand efforts to build local capacity to collect, analyze, and use demographic and health data in close collaboration with our project partners: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, PATH, CAMRIS, Blue Raster, and The Futures Institute."
About Macro International
Macro delivers research-based solutions to complex problems, combining a high level of expertise and state-of-the-art tools and techniques to provide answers that are on time and on target. We work with clients to develop the right questions and the right tools for the job, whether they are surveys, focus groups, onsite investigations, or tightly controlled comparative studies. The collective knowledge and expertise of our staff span virtually every area of public policy and social concern.
About infoGROUP
infoGROUP (www.infoGROUP.com) (NASDAQ: IUSA), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer databases for sales leads & mailing lists, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoGROUP has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own 12 proprietary databases under one roof. The infoGROUP database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites. Nearly 4 million customers use infoGROUP products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoGROUP headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500. To know more about Sales Leads, click www.infoGROUP.com.
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