Field Updates

• Dec 20, 2011

  Uganda Unveils New Mobile Directory of Health Workers

  Earlier this month, the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council (UMDPC) launched its new mobile directory, which offers Ugandans with mobile phones the ability to verify a health worker’s or a health facility’s qualifications. The system also allows council staff, as...

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• Dec 1, 2011

  IntraHealth Commemorates World AIDS Day 2011

  IntraHealth offices around the world are organizing and participating in World AIDS Day 2011 activities. This year’s theme is Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-Related Deaths. Below is a sample of IntraHealth’s World AIDS Day activities. ...

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• Nov 30, 2011

  Kenya Hosts 1st National Conference on Human Resources for Health

  From December 7-9, the Government of Kenya, the IntraHealth-led Capacity Kenya Project , and other development partners will host the 1st National Conference on Human Resources for Health (HRH) at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi. The first of its kind, this...

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• Nov 28, 2011

  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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• Oct 25, 2011

  “Flagship Intervention:” More than 37,900 Tanzanian Males Circumcised for HIV Prevention in Less than a Year

  Earlier this month, more than 13,000 men and boys were circumcised in the Shinyanga region of Tanzania in four districts: Bariadi, Maswa, Kahama, and Shinyanga Municipal. Male circumcision services, which are part of an IntraHealth International-led HIV prevention effort, started in late...

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• Oct 24, 2011

  New Project Awarded to IntraHealth-led Team in Senegal

  en français In September, the United States Agency for International Development in Senegal awarded IntraHealth International a five-year, $32 million cooperative agreement to manage the Senegal Health Services Improvement Program focusing on local health providers’ clinical,...

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• Sep 9, 2011

  Rwanda Palliative Care Work Covered in the CMAJ

  “There’s a lot of suffering and it’s not visible, all for want of drugs we take for granted in the developed world,” said Christian Stengel, director of the IntraHealth-led HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program in Rwanda. Rwanda's adoption of a palliative care policy,...

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• Aug 17, 2011

  Twenty-Six Health Managers Complete Leadership Training Course in Uganda

  Last month, 26 Ugandan health leaders and managers from seven different districts completed six months of training in leadership and management at the Health Manpower and Development Centre in Mbale. The training was aimed at helping health managers respond to and remedy poor staff retention,...

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• Jul 28, 2011

  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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• Jun 6, 2011

  New Project to Strengthen HIV/AIDS Care in Central America

  USAID/Guatemala has awarded IntraHealth International a $6.8 million, five-year cooperative agreement under the Capacity Plus project: Strengthening the Quality of Care and Improving the Quality of Life for People Living with HIV and Other Vulnerable Populations . This new program...

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