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Portfolio Review: IntraHealth's HIV/AIDS & TB Programs

Approaches and Results from HIV/AIDS & TB Programs in Thirteen Countries In the region of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, sub-Saharan Africa, a

New Health Care System Planned for Swaziland

As part of Swaziland’s efforts to meet the challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Ministry of Health has looked to the IntraHealth International-led Southern Africa Human Capacity Development (SAHCD) Coalition for advice on improving the service delivery of its health care system. The coalition’s efforts recently culminated in plans for a new organizational structure for the ministry that will add 11 senior-level posts

Global Health Leaders Focus on Community Health Workers

The Global Health Workforce Alliance organized a consultation meeting in Montreux, Switzerland in April to assess major findings and recommendations of a comprehensive global review of community health workers (CHWs). The review is comprised of eight country case studies from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Brazil, and Haiti, with field experiences and perspectives of the various participants.

Ceremony Honors a 2010 Health Champion

Dicko Fatoumata Maïga, a longtime nurse-midwife and president of the Association of Midwives of Mali, has been chosen as one of IntraHealth International’s 2010 Health Champions. She was honored at a celebration in Bamako, Mali, for her work to ensure an equitable distribution of midwives across country.

Capacity<i>Plus</i> Website Reviewed in British Nursing Journal

The best-selling nursing journal in the UK, Nursing Standard, published a positive review of the CapacityPlus website (Vol. 24, No. 39, June 2-8, 2010). Led by IntraHealth International, CapacityPlus is the USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Voices From the Field: People Living with HIV Find New Ways to Improve Their Health

“My friends and I were affected by different opportunistic infections frequently,” says 45-year-old Yekitnesh Muluneh, who has been living with HIV

Job Aids On Reproductive Health in Mali Now Available on CD-ROM and Online

The USAID-supported Assistance Technique Nationale Plus (ATN Plus) project in Mali recently launched a database of health materials including job aids for matrones, or assistant midwives, to guide their work in family planning, reproductive health, and nutrition.

IntraHealth-Led Capacity<i>Plus</i> Helps Plan 2011 Global Forum on Human Resources for Health

It’s been more than two years since the first-ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (HRH) in Kampala, Uganda. The global community is gaining awareness of the HRH crisis and the pressing need to strengthen the health workforce. Many countries have made progress, but there is still a global shortage of over four million health workers.

White House Examiner Visits IntraHealth-Supported Facilities in Rwanda

Last month,  Adam Ross, the program examiner in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, visited the Kibagabaga Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, on his first visit to Africa since taking over the Global Health and Child Survival portfolio eight months ago,

IntraHealth Develops New Job Aids for Diagnosing Fistula

Last fall IntraHealth International Program Officer Marsha Hamilton visited the Fistula Care Center in Ethiopia and noticed a tattered and confusing poster that the staff was using to diagnose obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is a hole that forms between a woman’s rectum and vagina or between her bladder and vagina as a result of complicated or prolonged childbirth without appropriate obstetric care.

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