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Capacity Project Publishes Article In British Nursing Journal

Voices From The Capacity Project: Susan's Story—Keeping Secrets and Promoting Family Planning in Rural Kenya

In Kenya’s remote North Eastern Province, a woman nervously approached the Ijara District Hospital. She wanted to learn about family planning but feared for her privacy. In her deeply religious community, comprised mainly of ethnic Somali Muslims, households have an average of eight children and...

Voices From The Capacity Project: Better Service For The Client And The Community—Strengthening HIV Training in Belize

Leaders of the University of Belize's Faculty of Nursing and Allied Health had a vision. Their country has the third highest HIV prevalence in the region, after Haiti and Guyana, yet it lacked an effective system for training providers in counseling and testing. As faculty members, they dreamed...

Voices from the Field: Swaziland And Uganda—Now We Can Tell Who Is Working Where

Strengthening Human Resources Information Systems

Imagine you oversee the fire department for a vast city, home to millions of people. Houses and apartments catch on fire every day, in the heart of downtown and in the suburbs and outlying areas. You have fire stations...

Leaders Explore How Technology Can Advance Health Care Globally

Workplace Violence, Gender-Based Discrimination And Human Resources For Health In Rwanda

The UNHCR And IntraHealth—Working To Fight HIV/AIDS In Southern Sudan

IntraHealth has been selected by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to lead a new program that aims to reduce the impact of HIV in Southern Sudan. IntraHealth has been working with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army through a CDC-funded program to prevent a rise in HIV infection rates among the army. The UNHCR program will expand this work to other uniformed cadres—policemen, firemen, wildlife managers and prison officials—and their families.

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Voices from the Field: Training Promises Family Planning Service Improvements At Senegal Work Sites

“I think I will be able to—in a short time—help clients to adhere to family planning and improve the quality of services I offered before,” says one participant in a quality improvement training for private sector family planning providers.

Forty-three private sector health care...

Partnership with Southern Sudan's Military to Fight HIV Featured at International AIDS Conference

August 5, 2008, Chapel Hill, NC—IntraHealth International’s work to gear up the Southern Sudanese military to fight HIV/AIDS is featured at a session on HIV programs in conflict and post-conflict settings on August 6, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, at the XVII International AIDS Conference. The session—co-chaired by IntraHealth’s Carol Karutu—is part of the week-long conference in Mexico City focusing on new research and major challenges in the global response to AIDS.

Voices From The Capacity Project: Drawing On Data—Effective Decision-Making for the Health Workforce

Imagine you’re a health-sector manager faced with competing priorities for your country’s valuable human resources for health (HRH). You need data to help you make the most effective decisions, yet the information you seek is not easy to find—and not always easy to understand. “Often looking at...

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