Kenya’s Nurses Can Empower Women through Family Planning
Women in rural areas face particularly high maternal health risks. The right skills and support can help nurses change that.
Attitude and Education: The Keys to Successful Nurse Midwifery
Midwifery students can learn great clinical skills. Attitude is harder.
Rescued Learning: New Loan Fund in Kenya Keeps Medical Students in Class
When Caren got into nursing school her father asked her aunties and uncles for help with tuition fees. They told him to marry her off.
HIV Peer Counselor in the Dominican Republic Shares Impact of His Work
Every day Alfredo provides HIV education and gets positive clients on treatment.
Emergency Care Comes into Focus in Ghana
In the emergency ward where she works, Dr. Eno Biney tells us how she saved a woman’s life the day before and how things might have turned out differently just a few years ago.
mPossible! Health Workers Can Get Training Anytime, Anywhere with Interactive Voice Response
IVR uses inexpensive technology to deliver powerful training.
Dr. Christian Osae Obirikorang: "I'm a Health Worker"
What's most exciting about being a lecturer of molecular medicine at the School of Medical Sciences in Ghana? Dr. Obirikorang tells us.
One Nurse's Best Day at Work
Meet Phylis Cherono Siele, a nurse in Kenya's Tenwek Mission Hospital whose joy comes from helping clients find hope, even in the most difficult times.
Medical Education in Crisis: Training Doctors Without Faculty
How do you provide medical education without faculty? Not very well, it turns out. It's a problem in Tanzania.
What I’m Learning as a Nurse in Malawi
In the US, nurses take on incredible accountability for their clients' care. In Malawi, where the nursing ratio may be six nurses for 271 patients, that kind of attention is impossible.
