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IntraHealth Celebrates USAID’s 50 Years of Working in Mali
Last month, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) celebrated its 50th anniversary of working in Mali with an exhibition of the agency’s flagship activities at the national park in Bamako. Rebecca Black, USAID/Mali mission director; Peter Barlerin, chargé...
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Mali
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New UNFPA Report Highlights Need for 350,000 More Midwives
Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partner agencies released The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011 report, which shows the world is short 350,000 midwives—nearly the same number of women who die each year from complications of pregnancy or childbirth:...
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CapacityPlus Announces New Versions of iHRIS Software and Mali’s Adoption of the Software Package
Earlier this week, Capacity Plus announced the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.15, two software products that are part of Capacity Plus ’s iHRIS Suite of Open Source tools for tracking, managing, and planning the health workforce. iHRIS Manage is used to maintain...
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Health Professionals Recommend Ways to Better Prevent, Treat, and Manage Obstetric Fistula
Last month, at the 3 rd International Conference for the Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons in Dakar, Senegal, 300 participants from more than 30 countries outlined some concrete ways to prevent and treat obstetric fistula and assist women who have a fistula regain their health and...
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IntraHealth Helps Improve Care Provided to Women with Obstetric Fistula in Mali
Obstetric fistula affects nearly two million women globally. In West Africa, women develop this condition following three to four percent of births. Although the condition is most often treatable and curable, many women go without treatment and instead are stigmatized because obstetric fistula...
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Training Traditional Healers to Fight Malaria in Mali
Malaria has severe impacts on the children and pregnant women of Mali —in fact, it’s the single greatest cause of mortality among children under five. Since traditional healers are often the first to be consulted to aid the sick, it’s crucial that these healers have the...
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Helping to Meet the Demand for Family Planning Services
In March 2010, three IntraHealth staff—Nirina Ranaivoso from Madagascar , Arkia Doucoure Diallo from Mali , and Rodio Diallo from Senegal —traveled to Kigali, Rwanda to participate in the USAID Family Planning Meeting, Meeting the Family Planning Demand to Achieve MDGs: Vision...
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IntraHealth Leads Training on Fistula Counseling in
Gao, MaliAs part of the Mali Fistula Care Project, IntraHealth recently conducted a training session in fistula counseling at the Gao Nursing School in Northern Mali . The five-day session in March prepared service providers to refer women with obstetric fistula for further care; provide them with...




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