Twelve Years Later, HIV in Namibia Looks Very Different
There's been enormous progress here, but adolescent girls and young women still face particular risk.
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Kate Stratten brings over 15 years of leadership and technical experience managing multi-million dollar, international public health projects.
Stratten’s areas of expertise include: HIV and AIDS, family planning, fistula prevention and care, gender-based violence, maternal and child health, and health systems strengthening. She has specific experience developing and implementing community mobilization and behavior change communication strategies as well as developing curricula and training programs.
Stratten has managed the start-up of many large initiatives, including the AIDS Resource Center in Ethiopia, the national AIDS Hotline in South Africa, and the introduction of community-based prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services in low-prevalence areas. Since joining IntraHealth in 2008, she’s managed the organization’s programs in Ethiopia and Southern Africa and role in a number of global initiatives, such as LINKAGES and Evidence to Action (E2A). Prior to IntraHealth, Stratten worked for Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Programs and as a health communications consultant in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She holds a bachelor's degree and honors in social work from the University of Cape Town.
There's been enormous progress here, but adolescent girls and young women still face particular risk.
Health workers who understand those at greatest risk of contracting HIV are more likely to reach them.
Putting what we already know works into practice is key to the fight against AIDS.
It looks like a little ketchup packet. But it could help HIV-positive women throughout Zambia give their newborns a virus-free start.
Three groups of 24 Ethiopian midwives learned basic emergency obstetric care skills, such as inserting catheters and postabortion care.
Part of my work here at IntraHealth is on a program in Ethiopia that aims to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. One of the ways we do this is by encouraging women to deliver in a health facility where they can get prophylactic care to stop HIV transmission.
Reading Samuel Loewenberg’s article, “Ethiopia Struggles to Make Its Voice Heard,” I thought, finally, someone is speaking out about something too many of us remain silent on—the vast gap in some countries between actual needs and donors’ perceived priorities, particularly when it comes to HIV/AIDS funding.
Bata Geleto walks up to a small mud house in Shashemene, a town in the southern region of Ethiopia. She carries a large, blue bag and an umbrella to protect herself from the sun as she walks house...
Last week the world celebrated World Breastfeeding Week with a focus on the ten steps every health facility should take to promote successful breastfeeding.
Earlier this week, I wrote about realities of childbirth in rural Ethiopia, of seeing a woman in agonizing labor, a woman suffering from obstetric fistula, and the dream of another young woman, Zanab, of becoming a fistula doctor.
Adet Health Center is only 40 kilometers from the city of Bahir Dar but the road is muddy, narrow, and full of pot holes, so the journey takes an hour and a half.