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• Echoes of Change from Community Health Work in Madagascar

  In Madagascar, a hilly island nation of 20 million, many people live in small, widely scattered hamlets often made up of just a few houses. Hamlets may be many kilometers apart, and many people may have to walk hours or even days to the health center to seek care. The Santénet2...

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• Reaching into the Community: Health Workers and Population Growth

  Now that the Earth’s population is seven billion and growing every day—women in Mali, for example, have an average of 6.4 children —how do we help ensure that people will have access to lifesaving health care? The WHO breaks it down like this: 2.3 doctors, nurses, and...

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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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• Community-based Support Improves Health, Lowers Costs

  The New York Times article, A Housecall to Help With Doctor’s Orders , describes an initiative where people from the community are paid a stipend to help people adhere to their health regimines at the patients\' homes. A study of AIDS patients found that the patients’ use of...

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• IntraHealth’s Work in Ethiopia Lauded

  At an Urban Health Extension Program graduation ceremony held in Addis Ababa in March 2010, the Addis Ababa Regional Health Bureau presented IntraHealth International with an award recognizing program support provided by IntraHealth for training in HIV counseling and testing and community...

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• Celebrations in Ethiopia Focus on Universal Access and Human Rights

  Ethiopia celebrated World AIDS Day in Hawassa with events highlighting the theme “Universal Access and Human Rights.” The USAID -supported HIV/AIDS Care and Support Program (HCSP) coordinated these events, which included an antiretroviral therapy (ART) panel discussion, an exhibit of...

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• District Incentive Fund (DIF) Grant Initiative Final Assessment

  District Incentive Fund (DIF) Grant Initiative Final Assessment . This report assesses the effect of the Twubakane Program's District Incentive Fund Grant Initiative on Rwandan health care development. Twubakane Decentralization and Health Program. 2010.  [574kb pdf]

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• Voices from the Field: Zambian HIV Project Encourages Positive Living

  “Counseling gives hope that a positive client can live as long as someone who is HIV-negative. ” In the village of Hawamboli in Zambia ’s Namwala District, P Moono was facing a problem at home. “My first wife was afraid to sleep with me in the same room,” he...

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• Alleviating the Burden of Responsibility: Men as Providers of Community-Based HIV/AIDS Care and Support in Lesotho

  Alleviating the Burden of Responsibility: Men as Providers of Community-Based HIV/AIDS Care and Support in Lesotho , Newman C, IntraHealth International, Capacity Project, 2009 Gender Research Brief No. 2. Presents the research and results of a study of men as providers of HIV/AIDS care and...

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• Incorporating Lay Human Resources to Increase Accessibility to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Home-Based Approach in Uganda

  Incorporating Lay Human Resources to Increase Accessibility to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Home-Based Approach in Uganda , Benavides B. and Caffrey M. (consultants), Capacity Project (part of the Health Workforce 'Innovative Approaches and Promising Practices' Study series), 2006  [351kb...

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