A Real-Life Cinderella: Remembering My Mother
My mother was lucky to have fairy godmothers—a team of physicians who helped her manage a terrible disease.
As IntraHealth International’s technical advisor for HRH and knowledge management, BenDor represented IntraHealth on the K4Health Project.
My mother was lucky to have fairy godmothers—a team of physicians who helped her manage a terrible disease.
Mobile phones and their capabilities are expanding in Kenya.
At the beginning of the outbreak teams were doing what they've done for years: working in their own bubbles. But Ebola changed that.
Who knew 20 years ago that mobile phones would become a crucial tool in reproductive health? And what do the next 20 have in store?
Sierra Leone is becoming the third country to adopt a mobile phone-based platform called mHero for Ebola recovery and beyond.
The SDG indicators will guide us to progress. But is one missing?
The international community came together in Accra, Ghana, last month to make a plan.
This mobile technology is connecting people and making health systems stronger amid West Africa's ongoing Ebola outbreak—and its story is just beginning.
Government and international aid workers alike are collaborating to address Ebola in Guinea, but challenges remain.
Much was said at the inaugural Global mHealth Forum about bringing mHealth innovations and programs “to scale.” But how?
Ebola threatens lives in more ways than one. In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, people living with HIV are feeling the effects.
IVR uses inexpensive technology to deliver powerful training.
Liberian health officials can send accurate data and key messages to health workers on Ebola's front lines, thanks to mHero.
Health workers who provide family planning services can make a big difference in their clients' lives.
In Liberia, technologists are learning to make two powerful information systems operate together, slowly revealing the story of how family planning there does—and doesn't—work.
iHRIS Train: it's free, it's customizable, and it's bringing us one step closer to universal health coverage, one record at a time.
This is a day to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and reflect on where we have made achievements in battling the epidemic and where we need to do better.
“If we want to stop these women and babies dying, we need to invest in skilled care,” declared Flavia Bustreo, assistant director-general of family and community health at the World Health Organization. Bustreo’s declaration came on the heels of the release of the WHO’s State of the World’s Midwifery 2011: Delivering Health, Saving Lives.
A recent New York Times article featured an updated United Nations forecast that projects the world’s population will reach 10.1 billion by the end of the century, rather than stabilizing at nine billion midcentury as previously predicted.
Compared to some health interventions such as buying a bednet, educating a new health worker requires a relatively large sum of money, but it is an investment with wide-reaching and enduring impact.
This brief provides an overview of how an innovative, two-way communication platform called mHero was used in Liberia to collect information from health workers on mental health services and needs...
This article presents the results of an assessment of HIV/AIDS in-service training provided to Nigerian health workers through funding from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (...
Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana faces health worker shortages, limiting the country’s likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Working together with the...