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• New Nutrition Program in Rwanda Changing Lives

  This story was originally published in a longer form by USAID. Every day, Josephine Mukamana* straps her 18-month-old daughter to her back and walks the short distance from her home to the market. During the walk, she composes a grocery list in her head. There was a time when...

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• Community Health Workers Counseling Women in India

  Jharna Tigga Jharna Tigga works with the Indian government’s Integrated Child Development Services program supervising about 40 Anganwadi centers. She has been doing this work for the past two decades, visiting four centers a day when public transportation is available. When...

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• Launch of Nutrition Mission Based on Coalition’s Recommendations

  Although India has made tremendous advances in science, medicine, information technology, and many other fields, and has experienced unprecedented economic growth over the past decade, malnutrition remains unacceptably high. [1] Half of India’s population does not get enough protein,...

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• Armenian Nurses Trained to Offer In-Depth Reproductive Health Counseling

  Recently, 80 nurses working in rural communities in Armenia were trained to offer comprehensive individual counseling and group health education classes to women who are making reproductive health decisions and choices about their children’s health. Using “balanced...

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• Rwanda Makes Strides in Health for Mothers and Children

  IRIN Africa recently reported on Rwanda\'s improvements in maternal and child health. In a region with some of the world’s worst indicators for maternal and child mortality, Rwanda is working hard to ensure mothers and their children have access to life-saving medical interventions.

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• Coalition Works to Improve Nutrition in India

  In June, representatives of the Coalition for Sustainable Nutrition Security in India (managed by the IntraHealth International-led Vistaar Project ), presented key recommendations to improve nutrition to the Planning Commission of India. This presented an extremely important advocacy...

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• Strengthening A Program For Tanzania\'s Most Vulnerable Children

  In partnership with the Tanzanian Institute of Social Work, the American International Health Alliance and the Jane Addams College of Social Work, the IntraHealth-led Capacity Project’s Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) program in Tanzania conducted the first in a series of training events...

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• Vistaar Project Organizes Training Of Trainers In Adolescent Nutrition

  The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has a large adolescent population that faces nutritional problems. As part of a state wide effort to address this issue, the IntraHealth-led Vistaar Project, together with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), organized a one-day Training of...

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• Soutien des donateurs individuels à l\'initiative des paniers pour bébés visant à encourager et célébrer une maternité sans risque au Rwanda

  Pour Marthe Uwizeyimana, le fait de donner naissance à son domicile ou dans une formation sanitaire est incomparable. « Avant, ma belle-mère avait beau être à mes côtés, je rencontrais toujours des problèmes et souffrais d’un grand...

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• IntraHealth diversifie ses activités au Mali

  Au Mali, les forts taux de pauvreté ont rendu les services de soins hors de portée de bon nombre d’habitants. En dehors de Bamako, la capitale du pays, les soins médicaux sont devenus inaccessibles, dans la mesure où 25% de la population habitent à...

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