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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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• \"Best Buy\" for Saving Lives: New Coalition Urges US Government to Invest in Frontline Health Workers

  A new and diverse coalition of 15 major global health organizations—including IntraHealth International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Save the Children—is calling on the US government for more strategic investment in frontline health workers as the most...

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• IntraHealth Staff Publish in Journal Issue Dedicated to Global Health Workforce

  Recently, World Population and Health published a journal issue dedicated to exploring the challenges faced by the global health workforce. Drawing on IntraHealth’s experiences addressing health workforce issues , several IntraHealth leaders and staff contributed: “ The...

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• Helping People Living with HIV Support Each Other: Emotionally, Physically, Financially

  Spéciose Mukaferesi is a nurse, and for nearly 20 years, she has lived with HIV. For much of that time, she has also lived with the stigma that can accompany a positive diagnosis. In 2007, she reached out to other women like herself to start Rushaki Health Center’s first support...

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• When No One Is There: Uganda’s Absent Health Workers

  Preliminary results from a recent study in Uganda suggest that health workers may be absent from their posts as much as 35% of the time. The health workers most likely to be absent are often the more highly trained workers such as doctors or clinical officers. The study presents a stark,...

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• Family Planning: Real Stories from Dakar

  A special summary of media coverage, new resources, photos, blogs and more following the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal, November 29–December 2, 2011. FEATURED BLOG AND SLIDESHOW Political Support and Popular Opinion on the...

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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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• 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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• New Project to Engage West African Civil Society in Family Planning

  Recently, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded IntraHealth International a two-year grant to support collaboration with civil society organizations and leaders in French-speaking West Africa—particularly Benin, Mali, and Senegal—to encourage greater commitment to...

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• Making Family Planning and HIV Services More Accessible to All

  Claver Kamali is a 52-year-old man living with HIV. He lives in a small village nestled in Rwanda’s hilly landscape with his wife and four children. Every month, Claver walks from his village to the nearest health center in Mukono to get his antiretroviral therapy (ART). While...

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