Workplace HIV Services Provide a Turning Point for Men in Tanzania ’s Kagera Region
By Mary Goodluck Mndeme ,
Communications officer, IntraHealth International
Mary Goodluck Mndeme, Communications Officer for IntraHealth, speaks to Hamisi Kuya about his VMMC experience.November 01, 2019One morning in May 2019, I met Hamisi Kuya (36), a father of two who received voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services through IntraHealth International.Hamisi lives near Kagera, in the northwestern corner of Tanzania, where he has been working at the Kagera Sugar Plantation for some years.In his area, like in many communities in the region, many people believe that the VMMC procedure is very painful and ta...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Community Engagement Source Type: news
Hand-in-Hand for Health: How Governments and the Private Sector Can Come Together
By Belinda Ngongo,
Senior technical advisor for global health, Medtronic Foundation ; Samantha Rick,
Deputy director, Frontline Health Workers CoalitionOctober 31, 2019Last year in Ghana,Anthony Opoku-Acheampon felt dizzy and had a headache. His son and wife drove him to C&J Hospital for help. But instead of examining him, a nurse turned the 70-year-old man away, saying there wasn’t an available bed.The family visited six more hospitals and heard the same refrain—there were no beds. Opoku-Acheampon died in his son’s car outside LEKMA Hospital, causing an outcry around the country over“no bed...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 31, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Policy & Advocacy Private-Sector Approaches Health Workforce Systems Source Type: news
Health Worker Training Is Improving Hypertension Care and Prevention in Senegal
October 31, 2019During interviews with almost 2,000 health workers and clients in Dakar, Senegal, IntraHealth International found that some 40% of health workers had not been trained to care for clients with hypertension, and 83% of clients who did not have hypertension knew no more than a single warning sign. But a 2019 evaluation reveals significant progress in under two years.The results from our 2017-2018 situational analysis uncovered gaps in hypertension care and prevention in Dakar, including insufficiencies in equipment, hypertension management skills, and patient education.Those results helped guide theBetter Hear...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 31, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Senegal Neema Noncommunicable Diseases Human Resources Management Primary Health Care Source Type: news
New Project Will Strengthen District Health Systems in Karamoja, Uganda
October 30, 2019Through a new $1.8 million project funded by UNICEF, IntraHealth International will strengthen health systems in the Karamoja region of Uganda, using a two-pronged approach to overcome some of region’s biggest health care challenges. The project,“District Health System Strengthening on RMNCAH, HIV/AIDS, and Nutrition in Karamoja,” aims to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH), HIV care, and nutrition services in the region.Karamoja has the highest maternal mortality rate in the country—83% of pregnant women in the area are HIV-positive. And 64...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Uganda District Health System Strengthening on RMNCAH, HIV/AIDS, and Nutrition in Karamoja & Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Health Workforce Systems Source Type: news
For Children in South Sudan, Managing HIV and its Treatment Is Complicated
By Peter Musa Sereru,
Adolescent/youth HIV officer, IntraHealth InternationalOctober 29, 2019Abdu* is five years old and lives with his mother in South Sudan’s capital city of Juba. He is HIV-positive and must remain vigilant about adhering to his antiretroviral treatment (ART) plan.But war and displacement make this kind of adherence difficult, or even impossible for some families. The months went by as Abdu’s family navigated life in a conflict zone. He missed important monitoring visits to the Juba Military Referral Hospital, where they would have replenished his drugs, measured his growth, and changed his...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Education Performance Youth Community Health Workers Source Type: news
iHRIS 5.0 Offers New Reporting Features and More for Health Worker Data
December 09, 2019IntraHealth International has rebuilt its flagshipiHRIS software in a global effort to make the program simpler, more adaptable, and easier to manage and customize for countries that want to use it to manage their health worker data.The new version features an improved search function, responsive graph capabilities, and a professionally-designed interface that is easy to read on a phone, tablet, or computer. IntraHealth’s digital health team made all improvements in close collaboration with the global community of iHRIS users and implementers.“We conducted a lot of user interviews,” says ...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Digital Health Technology HRIS Source Type: news
Award Recognizes RHITES-E for Agility, Effectiveness in Boosting HIV Services in Uganda
October 02, 2019IntraHealth International’s Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) Activity has won the2019 CLA (Collaborate, Learn, Adapt) award from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for its agility in boosting HIV services in the eastern region of Uganda. In March 2018, Uganda’s Ministry of Health introduced a surge strategy, in line with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) efforts, to find more people living with HIV and enroll them in care by improving HIV testing efficiency and linkages to treatment. To r...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 2, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Uganda Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-East) HIV & AIDS Source Type: news
New Game for Ugandan Men Uncovers Behavioral Barriers to Family Planning
By Irene Mirembe,
Knowledge management manager, IntraHealth International. ; Susan Tino,
Project manager, IntraHealth International
Men play Together We Decide during a user test in one of the districts. Photo by Ely McElwee.September 25, 2019Uganda has a high fertility rate and a declining mortality rate, resulting in rapid population growth. This has led to a dependent population that is not conducive to economic production, savings, investment, or development.Uganda also has a high unmet need for family planning— according to the 2016 Uganda Demographic Health Survey, an estimated 28-32% of women do not in...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health Community Engagement World Contraception Day Gender Equality Source Type: news
Advocates of Universal Health Coverage Push for Clear Milestones, Accountability
By Vince Blaser,
Director, Frontline Health Workers Coalition ; Carol Bales ,
Advocacy and policy communications manager, IntraHealth InternationalSeptember 25, 2019As policymakers, advocates, and other global health stakeholders have descended on New York and the United Nations this week, two words seem to sum up the conversations around universal health coverage (UHC):“Now what?”From the years of clamoring for UHC to be a central priority in global health policy to the breakthrough 2012 UN resolution urging countries to prioritize UHC, Sustainable Development Goals target 3.8 in 2015, the&n...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Leadership and Governance Policy & Advocacy IntraHealth ' s 40th Anniversary Source Type: news
New Insights from Old Numbers: Artificial Intelligence Makes Sense of Health Ministry Data
By Casey Bishopp,
Communications officer, IntraHealth InternationalSeptember 24, 2019Ministries of health have more data than ever before—and the amount of data is increasing at an exponential rate. But what good is all that information if it’s unwieldy or difficult to use? Over the course of nine weeks, IntraHealth International’s digital health team and staff from our Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) project modeled a machine-learning approach to glean insights from the flood of health systems and population data avail...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Digital Health Technology HRIS Human Resources Management Health Workforce & Systems Source Type: news
IntraHealth at 40: The Future of Global Health Starts Here
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth InternationalSeptember 23, 2019We started out small. Just a single project out of the medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We were called Intrah back then, the Program for International Training in Health.And that’s what we did. We trained health workers.Forty years later—and 741 staff members strong—we still do. But we doso much more now, too.New outbreaks, new scientific discoveries, and new technologies have changed our field entirely. The way we train has transformed. The types of partnerships that drive development are evolving b...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
IntraHealth Improves Health Care in 43 Countries, Reaches 341,445 Health Workers in 2018
September 17, 2019
Chapel Hill, NCIn a step toward making high-quality health care available to more people around the world,IntraHealth International reached 341,445 health workers in 43 countries in 2018. These health workers are now making services available to more people in some of the most remote areas, destigmatizing procedures and services, and compiling meaningful and lifesaving data that allow for greater adaptability and long-term solutions.See more results in our full annual report.IntraHealth International reached 341,445 health workers in 43 countries in 2018.The World Health Organization and World Bank pro...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health HIV AIDS Infectious Diseases Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Digital Health Education Performance Health Workforce Systems Source Type: news
New Study Explores Solutions to Postabortion Care Barriers for Young People in Togo
September 16, 2019Training health workers in Togo is creating higher-quality, youth-friendlier services, resulting in increased usage of modern contraception among young clients. Anew article by IntraHealth International’sStembile Mugore inGlobal Health Science& Practice explains how training health workers to provide adolescent-friendly postabortion care is increasing voluntary contraception use, reducing unintended pregnancies, and averting abortions and maternal deaths in the country.This training marks a change for medical services in Togo.Sixty-one percent of the Togolese population is under 25. For women in...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Togo Evidence to Action (E2A) Project Family Planning & Reproductive Health Education Performance World Contraception Day Youth Source Type: news
Seven Creative Approaches to Health Workforce Challenges
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth InternationalSeptember 13, 2019Over the course of our 40-year history, IntraHealth International has consistently designed creative solutions to health workforce challenges. From new technologies to old-fashioned human storytelling, we find new solutions to longstanding problems. In a new technical publication, we highlight seven examples of how and why we look for new ways to get results. Here’s a sneak peak of what’s inside The Future of Global Health Starts Here: 7 Creative Approaches to Health Workforce Challenges. Funding the Nex...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health HIV AIDS Noncommunicable Diseases Digital Health Education Performance Policy Advocacy Health Workforce Systems Health Workers Source Type: news
We're Missing Something in Health Worker Training
By Casey Bishopp,
Communications officer, IntraHealth International
Dr. Janet Muriuki addresses a group of attendees at SwitchPoint Shibuya. Photo courtesy of The Global Fund/Shugo Takemi.September 11, 2019The people who attend to us when we’re ill, injured, worried about our health, or scared for the well-being of our loved ones are face-to-face with conflict, end of life, and terminal illness. But are health students adequately prepared to work under such mental stress? According to Health economist and health policy analyst Dr. Akiko Maeda, these issues aren’t properly addressed in schools and in the d...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Mental Health Education & Performance Health Workers Source Type: news
