11 Billion, Ready or Not: We Need To Put Family Planning on the Fast Track
By 2100, the world’s population will rise to 11 billion. But that doesn’t mean family planning investments aren’t working.
Corinne Mahoney is the former director of communications at IntraHealth International.
By 2100, the world’s population will rise to 11 billion. But that doesn’t mean family planning investments aren’t working.
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Midwifery is more than clinical services. It’s a science and an art with a deep history.
Victoria sees a lot of malaria cases. Today, she's both nurse and patient.
It's time to provide women with more opportunities and support in the health sector.
We shouldn't wait for the next epidemic before we implement some relatively simple yet powerful digital health solutions.
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As professionals, health workers belong to the people they serve. Join us during World Health Worker Week in thanking those who bring health care to communities around the world, including your own.
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“Bring technology to me, not to a low-resource setting.”
If you want to help save the world, look for a problem to solve in your own back yard.
They say wealthier is healthier, and there’s evidence to back that up.
According to the 2010 Kenya Service Provision Assessment survey, only 46% of Kenyan health facilities have running water year-round.
Last Friday, I sat in the beautiful Haw River Ballroom in the enchanting town of Saxapahaw, North Carolina, with hundreds of eclectic, savvy, and well-traveled individuals at SwitchPoint 2012—IntraHealth’s first annual conference, retreat, and concert on innovation and global health.
Barriers for girls are preventing countries from producing, hiring, and retaining the health workers they need.
IntraHealth has long championed the importance of health workers and managers having open access to information, particularly in developing countries. Open access is a natural extension of that work.
All organizations and projects use, capture, and share knowledge, but without prioritizing knowledge management, KM doesn’t happen systematically.
Civil unrest is spreading quicker than a pandemic across the Middle East and North Africa. How will these events affect people’s health and the health systems in these countries?
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As we look forward to IntraHealth’s 30th Anniversary Event on April 22nd, we invite you to take a walk with us through IntraHealth’s last 30 years on our new interactive timeline.
IntraHealth and I are approximately the same age. Well, let’s just say we were both born in the seventies anyway. Therefore, it seemed fitting when I was charged with telling IntraHealth’s 30th...
Addressing gender-based violence (GBV) successfully is an important step toward achieving Millennium Development Goals in the areas of gender equality, infant and maternal health and mortality and...