In South Sudan, Antiretroviral Therapy Gives Man a Second Chance to Live
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Communications OfficercbalesAugust 01, 2023August 01, 2023 12:00 PMTwenty-five-year-old John thinks he may have lived with HIV for over three years before taking a blood test in December 2021. After several failed over-the-counter malaria treatments, John ’s older brother Ojok took him to Munuki Primary Health Center in Juba, where he tested HIV positive.Although health workers immediately enrolled John on antiretroviral therapy (ART), he refused medication and lived in denial for another year.John ’s health deteriorated and in December 2022, Ojok returned him to Munuki Primary Health Center. After health wo...
Source: IntraHealth International - August 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
In South Sudan, Antiretroviral Treatment Gives Man a Second Chance to Live
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Communications OfficercbalesAugust 01, 2023August 01, 2023 12:00 PMTwenty-five-year-old John thinks he may have lived with HIV for over three years before taking a blood test in December 2021. After several failed over-the-counter malaria treatments, John ’s older brother Ojok took him to Munuki Primary Health Center in Juba, where he tested HIV positive.Although health workers immediately enrolled John on antiretroviral therapy (ART), he refused medication and lived in denial for another year.John ’s health deteriorated and in December 2022, Ojok returned him to Mukuki Primary Health Center. After health wo...
Source: IntraHealth International - August 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
Community Advocacy Leads to New Maternity Unit at Rwanda Health Center
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Community health engagement specialistcbalesJuly 11, 2023July 11, 2023 12:00 PMFor years, maternity services at Gashaki Health Center in Rwanda ’s Muzanze District were hindered by poor infrastructure, congestion, and a lack of community participation. “We had such a small delivery room that we couldn ' t accommodate more than two women at the same time, ” says Sylvain Ndagiwenimana, the health center manager. “This lack of space contributed to an increase in home deliveries.”Now clients and community members have a say in the type and quality of services they receive.Lack of space contributed to an i...
Source: IntraHealth International - July 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
Big Milestones for Me and All Community Health Workers in Kenya
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Community health worker and advocatecbalesJune 30, 2023June 30, 2023 12:00 PMI was thrilled to receive Dr. Atul Gawande, Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID, last week at Mathare North Health Center –my link facility. I told him about how I, and my fellow community health workers (CHWs) in Kenya, support theIntroducing New Tools Project to strengthen tuberculosis (TB) care. I go house to house to educate community members about TB. I screen for TB, and when I identify a person who may have TB, I bring the patient to this facility for further testing and treatment, which can now be done using ne...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
5 Approaches to a Brighter, Healthier Future for Zimbabwe's Women and Girls
5 Approaches to a Brighter, Healthier Future for Zimbabwe's Women and Girls
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Senior global technical director for HIVcbalesJune 21, 2023June 21, 2023 12:00 PMI often have this image in my mind: a young girl I saw the last time I went to my village. It ’s late morning and she’s carrying a bucket of water on her head, having just drawn it from the village well. She’s just nine or ten years old, but I know it will not be long before she, or another girl she knows, will be forced into womanhood.In Zimbabwe, 34% of girls are married before the age of 18. The school holidays are not due for another month, s...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
2022 Marks Most Violent Year Against Health Workers in Conflicts: Report
June 05, 2023Anew report published by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents 1,989 attacks and threats against health care facilities and personnel across 32 countries and territories in armed conflict and situations of political violence throughout 2022. The reported figure represents the most severe year of attacks against health care in the last decade globally. Over half of all attacks were reported in just two countries, Ukraine and Myanmar. The report identifies more than 750 attacks perpetrated by the Russian Federation on health care in Ukraine alone–the most committed in a single year...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Policy & Advocacy Health in Conflict Health Workers Source Type: news
Female Community Health Workers Can Unlock Health For All
By Babalwa Mbono
Babalwa Mbono, Strategic Project Officer for mothers2mothers and former Mentor Mother, delivers an intervention at the United Nations Multi-Stakeholder Hearing on Universal Health Coverage in New York, May 2023.May 24, 2023The global health community is in Geneva this week for the76th World Health Assembly (WHA). With this year’s theme“Saving lives, driving health for all,” it is critical for the conversations to be laser-focused on turning words into action to deliver for themore than half a billion people across the African continent who still do not have access to basic health care...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: HIV & AIDS Policy Advocacy World Health Assembly Community Health Workers Source Type: news
New Urban Health ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Transform Cardiovascular Population Health Globally
ihadmin2May 22, 2023May 22, 2023GenevaThe CARDIO4Cities Accelerator by Novartis Foundation and IntraHealth International aims to replicate the successful CARDIO4Cities approach in 30 major cities within three years to transform cardiovascular population health and equity globally.Results of initial programs in S ão Paulo, Dakar and Ulaanbaatar show the cost-effective approach averted up to 13% of strokes and 12% of heart attacks during implementation.Experts say public-private partnerships are key to address the growing burden of cardiovascular disease, the world ’s leading cause of death,according to the World Health O...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: ihadmin2 Source Type: news
New Urban Health ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Transform Cardiovascular Population Health Globally
May 22, 2023
GenevaThe CARDIO4Cities Accelerator by Novartis Foundation and IntraHealth International aims to replicate the successful CARDIO4Cities approach in 30 major cities within three years to transform cardiovascular population health and equity globally.Results of initial programs in São Paulo, Dakar and Ulaanbaatar show the cost-effective approach averted up to 13% of strokes and 12% of heart attacks during implementation.Experts say public-private partnerships are key to address the growing burden of cardiovascular disease, the world’s leading cause of death,according to the World Health Organizati...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Global Noncommunicable Diseases Source Type: news
Reps. Bera, Kiggans Introduce Bipartisan Global Frontline Health Workers Resolution
This article is based on thepost published on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog authored by Carol Bales of IntraHealth and Corinne Paul of CARE USA. (Source: IntraHealth International)
Source: IntraHealth International - May 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Health workforce development Policy & Advocacy Health Workers Nurses Source Type: news
How Can We See More Smiling Babies in Rwanda and Around the World?
By Carol Bales,
Communications manager, IntraHealth International ; Kayinamura Mwali Assumpta,
Deputy chief of party/Technical director for the Ingobyi Activity
A baby plays with his mother at Nyanza District Hospital. Photo by Innocent Ishimwe for IntraHealth International.May 08, 2023We’re almost at the halfway mark for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, including dramatically reducing maternal mortality, ending preventable newborn and child deaths, and ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health services. Butnew reports show that many countries are off track. I sat down with Ka...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health Health Workforce Systems Source Type: news
Three Steps NGO Leaders Can Take toward a Future of Inclusive, Locally Led Development
By Maqsoda Maqsodi,
President and chief executive officer (interim) ; Pape Amadou Gaye,
Founder& President, Baobab InstituteApril 27, 2023If you ask the head of any international or regional NGO what is on their mind lately, chances are it’s the same thing that’s on ours: the localization debate.And it truly is a debate—opinions vary on every aspect of it, from what we should call it to how to do it, and how to help your organization survive it. Those of us who follow such things have seen an onslaught of opinion pieces on this topic lately, most of which highlight northern perspectives and the po...
Source: IntraHealth International - April 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health Education Performance Source Type: news
The Best Way to Pay Tribute to Health Workers? Invest in Them.
By Janet Muriuki,
Senior director of health workforce development (interim)
Janet Muriuki. Photo courtesy of IntraHealth International.April 04, 2023Globally, health workers remain the unsung heroes of our society. They work tirelessly, often putting their own lives at risk, to ensure that we stay healthy and safe.I began my career as a health worker. As a physician, I practiced in some of Kenya’s public and private health facilities, including an HIV clinic and later a hospital that focused on women’s and children’s health. So I know the long hours, the hard work, and the sacrifices it takes for th...
Source: IntraHealth International - April 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Health workforce development Policy & Advocacy World Health Worker Week Source Type: news
The Future of Global Health Starts with Health Workers
By Philippe Guinot,
Chief operating officer (interim) and chief technical officer
Ruth Uwibohoye, a health worker, cares for a child at Nyanza Hospital in Nyanza District, Rwanda. Ruth is supported by the IntraHealth International-led and USAID-funded Ingobyi project to reduce preventable infant and maternal deaths, reduce the incidence of malaria, and bring high-quality, integrated health services to more Rwandan mothers, children, and adolescents. Photo by Innocent Ishimwe for IntraHealth International.April 03, 2023In the global health community, we often focus on results and big numbers. How many people have we r...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Global Forum on Human Resources for Health World Health Worker Week Source Type: news
Local Partnership Launches Digital Health Tool to Decrease Hypertension in Senegal
March 08, 2023Saytu Tension—a suite of digital solutions that will help accelerate early detection, linkage to care, and follow-up among hypertensive patients in Senegal—launched on January 27 in Dakar.As part of theCARDIO4Dakar project, funded by the Novartis Foundation and implemented by IntraHealth International in partnership with the Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action, Saytu Tension (“check your blood pressure” in Wolof) will amplify existing efforts to reach more people with information about cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, and help link clients to diagnosis and...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Senegal CARDIO4Dakar Noncommunicable Diseases Digital Health Source Type: news
