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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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• Gender Equality: What Gaps Remain?

  The World Bank has released The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development . This report discusses gains women have made in gender equity, points out areas where change is still necessary, and sets four priorities for action:  Reducing excess female...

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• Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

  Although the majority of health workers in developing countries are female, gender discrimination presents significant barriers to achieving gender equality within the health workforce. When gender inequalities and discrimination operate in the workforce they may impede entry into health...

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• Police Officer Épaphrodite Manigaraba on His Work with Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

  Officer Épaphrodite Manigaraba Épaphrodite Manigaraba is a young man, but already he’s established a reputation for himself as a patient, compassionate, and trustworthy police officer. “For me, justice is the fight against inequality,” he says....

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• New Article Highlights Need to Address Gender Discrimination in Health Workplaces

  Incidences of workplace violence in Rwandan health facilities are influenced by gender inequality, concludes a study published this month by IntraHealth’s Constance Newman in the journal Human Resources for Health. The study, “Workplace violence and gender discrimination in...

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• IntraHealth’s Technical Leadership: Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

  Last month, the International Journal for Equity in Health published an article written by an IntraHealth International-led research team that highlights the absence of men in the HIV/AIDS caregiving workforce in three districts in Lesotho. The study concluded that HIV/AIDS caregiving is...

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• 2011 Women and Girls of the World Datasheet

  The Population Reference Bureau\'s new 2011 Women and Girls of the World Datasheet is available at: http://www.prb.org/pdf11/world-women-girls-2011-data-sheet.pdf

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• IntraHealth Partners with Uganda Ministry of Health to Foster Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

  Last month, the Uganda Capacity Program and the Ministry of Health conducted a workshop in Jinja, Uganda about the importance of gender equality in human resources policy and planning as well as human resources management. The workshop also included a presentation about the forthcoming...

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• Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

  As we reflect back on the global health stories that made the news in 2010—and some that didn’t—here are 11 top stories we will be following in 2011. Health worker migration: WHO’s unprecedented stand on recruitment In 2010, we celebrated the World Health...

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• Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

  Open source and mobile technologies: need rigorous review and documentation to scale up As Kate Otto notes in her Huffington Post blog on “ a prediction of global health prosperity for 2011 ,” several technologies have been “created, tested, piloted and evaluated in the...

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