3 Ways Health Workers in Central America Are Delivering HIV Care during a Pandemic
By Claudia Guzm án
A client received HIV medication at their home in Guatemala in August, 2017. Photo by Anna Watts for IntraHealth International.December 14, 2020In Central America, the COVID-19 pandemic has created new barriers for people living with HIV to adhere to their antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen. People living with HIV face lack of transportation, reduced clinic hours and sites, and fear of going to clinics—all of which make it harder for them to continue taking their medication.So health workers from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama are using some new...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Health Workers Source Type: news
Executive Voice: 10 Questions with CEO Polly Dunford
This article originally appeared in the Triangle Business Journal on December 3, 2020. You can read ithere. (Source: IntraHealth International)
Source: IntraHealth International - December 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: COVID-19 Health Workers Source Type: news
Congress Must Make Health Workers and COVID-19 Emergency Funding the Priorities
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth International
Dr. Sissoko is the head of anesthesiology and emergency services at a hospital in Mali. Photo by Nana Kofi Acquah for IntraHealth International.December 08, 2020In letters to US Congress members this fall, Léonie Claudine Lougue (Minister of Health of Burkina Faso) and Michel Hamala Sidibe (Minister of Health and Social Affairs in Mali) called for a united response to the COVID-19 crisis.“We respectfully request that the U.S. Congress support partner countries’ own leadership in building and strengthening the health workforce and cross-cutting health...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: COVID-19 Policy & Advocacy Health Workforce Systems Health Workers Source Type: news
Meet Three Ugandan Women Who Say Community-Based Family Planning Has Changed Their Lives
By Irene Mirembe,
Knowledge management manager, IntraHealth InternationalDecember 07, 2020In rural Eastern Uganda, three young women between the ages of 19 and 24 are happy, healthy, and focused on achieving their dreams, thanks to community-based family planning providers.During the COVID-19 pandemic, IntraHealth International’sRegional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) program has increased community-level interventions to improve family planning services and make them more accessible, while also emphasizing community participation, citizen accountability, reporting, and the impo...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health Community Engagement Source Type: news
In Central America, Health Workers Keep HIV Services Available despite Dual Disasters
By Claudia Guzm án
Photo by Trevor Snapp in El Salvador for IntraHealth International.December 01, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has created plenty of barriers for people living with HIV who need to continue their care and treatment. But when hurricanes Eta and Iota hit Central America in November, the barriers multiplied.Pounding Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, and Guatemala for days, these two hurricanes brought heavy rains that led to flooding and landslides that devastated communities and affected millions.In the face of these dual crises, health workers in Central America demonstrated strong leadership and ...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS COVID-19 Digital Health World AIDS Day Source Type: news
Four Ways We ’re Adapting HIV Services during COVID-19 in Tanzania
By Kija Nyalali,
Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, IntraHealth International, Tanzania
A community volunteer recruits clients interested in VMMC services in Ukerewe, Tanzania. Photo by Josh Estey for IntraHealth International.November 18, 2020In Tanzania, the first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 16, 2020. When the country’s government instituted preventive measures to keep the disease from spreading, those same measures made it tougher to provide other services that can prevent a different infectious disease: HIV.So IntraHealth International’sTohara Plus team had to adjust.The Tohar...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS COVID-19 Source Type: news
In Burkina Faso, New Community Health Posts Improve Access to Integrated Care
By Marguerite Ndour,
Project director, INSPiRE ; Jennifer Martin,
International Development Writer and Editor
Kiendr ébéogo Patindé, head of Lo-Longo health post in Burkina Faso, speaks to a mother at the health post. Photo by Isidore Sinkondo for IntraHealth International.November 17, 2020A mother in Burkina Faso with a sick child walks 6.5 kilometers, on average, to find a health worker. Finding local and available high-quality health services is difficult, especially in rural areas.The World Health Organization estimates that there isless than 1 physician and fewer than 4 nurses per 10,000 people in Burkina F...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health Community Engagement Source Type: news
Sanitation Improves, Malnutrition Drops among Women and Children in Tajikistan
November 11, 2020Over the past five years, Tajikistan improved health and nutrition for almost 250,000 women and 600,000 children and engaged almost 450,000 community members on agriculture management thanks to IntraHealth International’sFeed the Future Tajikistan Health and Nutrition Activity (THNA).Almost half of Tajikistan’s population is living below the national poverty line and one-third is affected by food insecurity. The remote Khatlon region has an agricultural sector that doesn ' t produce enough healthful, high-nutrient food, which leads topoor nutrition and maternal and child health. In 2012, the re...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Tajikistan Feed the Future Tajikistan Health and Nutrition Activity Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health Community Engagement Community Health Workers Source Type: news
Gender-Based Violence on the Rise in the COVID-19 Era
By Elizabeth Drachman,
Senior Communications ManagerNovember 11, 2020A Liberian mother choked back tears as she recounted how a police commander refused to accept her report about a neighbor who raped and impregnated her 13-year-old daughter. The officer didn’t believe her.This is just one recent example of gender-based violence gleaned from DAI’s project work, but unfortunately, it is all too common, and—for multiple colliding reasons—the prevalence of such violence appears to have been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.In May, the United Nations (UN) issued an alert about the alarming rise of ...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Source Type: news
I ’m a Community Health Worker—Here’s Why I Tell My Story
By Margaret Odera,
Community Health Worker and Mentor Mother
Margaret Odera is a mentor mother, a certified community health worker, and an advocate. Photo by Patrick Meinhardt for IntraHealth International.November 10, 2020FaithIn 2012, I met a pregnant woman in the health center where I work in Kenya. As part of group education, she was tested for HIV, and she tested positive.She was devastated and hysterical. She believed HIV was a disease for prostitutes and the sexually immoral.“I was married as a virgin,” she told me.“My husband has been my friend since childhood. How could I be HIV-positive?&...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Community Engagement Community Health Workers Source Type: news
5 Lessons from Top Global Experts on How to Support the Health Workforce
By Carol Bales,
Advocacy and policy communications manager, IntraHealth International ; Elizabeth Walsh,
Director of communications and knowledge management, HRH2030October 26, 2020Before COVID-19, the world was facing a shortage of 18 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. By September of this year, one in seven reported cases of COVID-19 were health workers and at least 7,000 health workers had died—likely significant underestimates due to lack of data.Although the true burden of COVID-19 infections on the health workforce is unknown, the loss of hea...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health COVID-19 Digital Health Education Performance Policy Advocacy Health Workers Community Health Workers Source Type: news
Christopher Constantian Joins IntraHealth as Chief Growth Officer
October 23, 2020IntraHealth International is thrilled to welcome Christopher Constantian as our new chief growth officer, starting November 9, 2020.As part of the executive team at IntraHealth, Constantian will lead the Center for Strategy& Development, including all new business development. He and his team will form partnerships that expand IntraHealth ' s support to frontline health workers and strengthen health systems around the world.“We’re so excited to be welcoming Chris to IntraHealth in this new role,” saysPolly Dunford, IntraHealth’s president and CEO.“These are challe...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
Namibia Improves HIV Care through Training and High-Quality Services
October 16, 2020Between 2015 and 2019, IntraHealth International’sUSAID HIV Clinical Services Technical Assistance Project (UTAP) helped 42,578 HIV-positive clients in Namibia begin antiretroviral therapy (ART), conducted a nurse training program, increased the number of community adherence groups from 40 to 484, and helped roll out an electronic patient management system for the country.In 2018, an estimated200,000 people were living with HIV in Namibia, with regions in the north and capital city having thehighest burden. Now Namibia is one of three sub-Saharan African countries that have achieved the UNAIDS 90-90-9...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Namibia USAID HIV Clinical Services Technical Assistance Project & AIDS Source Type: news
To Decolonize Global Nursing and Midwifery, Let ’s Rethink How We Train Health Workers
By Stembile Mugore,
Senior advisor for health sector performance and sustainability, IntraHealth International
Beatrice Aciro, midwife and graduate of Good Samaritan School of Nursing& Midwifery, conducts a practical exercise with students. Photo by Tommy Trenchard for IntraHealth InternationalOctober 15, 2020When I trained as a nurse/midwife in the United Kingdom, I learned about heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. They were part of the curriculum because they were among the most common diseases in the UK.But when I went back home to Zimbabwe—a country that had just declared its independence from a colon...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Midwives Nurses Source Type: news
IntraHealth Welcomes Nikolos Oakley to Executive Team
October 08, 2020
Chapel Hill, NCIntraHealth International is happy to welcome Nikolos Oakley as the new chief financial and administrative officer on November 9, 2020.In his new role as part of the executive team, Oakley will direct the financial and administrative functions of IntraHealth ' s network of 18 offices around the world and its diverse portfolio of projects as it strengthens health systems and increases access to high-quality health services around the world.Oakley has over 24 years of domestic and international experience in financial and business operations, compliance systems, and federal aw...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Source Type: news
