What Do Health Workers in Uganda Need to End the Current Ebola Outbreak?
By Tracy Kobukindo ,
Nurse and advocate ; David Bryden,
Director of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and senior policy and advocacy advisor at IntraHealth International
Tracy Kobukindo is a registered nurse and advocate in Uganda. She also serves as a Frontline Health Workers Coalition Regional Advisor, helping to guide the Coalition ’s advocacy messages and policy recommendations. Photo by Tracy Kobukindo.November 03, 2022Health workers in Uganda are now at the forefront of responding to another serious infectious disease. Last month the country declared an Ebola outbreak, caused by the Sudan species of th...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Policy & Advocacy Health Workers Nurses Source Type: news
In Eastern Uganda, One District ’s COVID-19 Vaccination Preparedness and Response Strategies Exceeded Expectations
By Irene Mirembe,
Knowledge management manager, IntraHealth InternationalOctober 24, 2022Uganda is working hard to prevent COVID-19 by encouraging its citizens to get vaccinated. Today, the country’s cumulative positive cases areover 170,000, including 3,600+ deaths and over 100,000 recoveries. While Uganda has sustained a low COVID-19 transmission rate at 2%, not all of its eligible population is fully vaccinated, and the Ministry of Health is trying to change that.One district in Uganda, the Bududa District, took advantage of Uganda’s vaccination efforts to make sure its key populations received jabs, ...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 24, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Community Health Health Workers Source Type: news
A New Partnership Strengthens HIV Services in South Sudan
By Gladys Achan,
Communications Officer ; Patrick Zema Alivile,
Capacity Building ManagerSeptember 26, 2022While it’s only been a little over a year since their partnership began, the Community Initiative for Development Organization (CIDO) and IntraHealth International have already seen improvements in both access to and quality of HIV services in South Sudan.TheHIV prevalence rate among adults in South Sudan ages 15 to 49 is 2.1%. Only about27% of people living with HIV in the country know their status and are on treatment. The South Sudan government is working to eradicate HIV, but instability due to violence ...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Management and Performance Quality of Care Source Type: news
The US Has a Chance to Invest in Health Workers Like Never Before
By Polly Dunford,
President and chief executive officer
Rukia Ahmed, lab technologist at Tudor Subcounty Hospital in Mombasa County, Kenya, tests patient samples. Photo by Edwin Joe for IntraHealth International.September 09, 2022Last week, I joined CEOs and senior officials at 25 other organizations inurging USAID Administrator Samantha Power to include $200 million in her fiscal 2024 budget request to strengthen theGlobal Health Worker Initiative. This Biden-Harris initiative is a golden opportunity for the US to partner and collaborate with global and regional initiatives—such as the African Union—in a...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 9, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Policy & Advocacy Health Workers Source Type: news
Jen Guertin Joins IntraHealth as Vice President, Business Development
September 12, 2022IntraHealth International is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Guertin as our new vice president, business development, beginning September 12, 2022.As a member of the executive team, Guertin will provide strategic direction and vision to IntraHealth ' s new business initiatives and implement our growth strategy. She brings over 20 years of experience in international public health program development and management, including new business development. “We ' re so excited to welcome Jen to the IntraHealth team,” says Polly Dunford, IntraHealth’s president and CEO.“Her dee...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 9, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
Want to Transform a Population's Health?
By Richard Stanley,
Senior Product Manager, Digital HealthSeptember 09, 2022To transform a population ' s health—including reducing costs and improving equity and outcomes—countries need actionable data. This means combining diverse data sources into coherent analytical tools. A common pain point for many of the governments and organizations we partner with at IntraHealth International is managing the ever-changing metadata about facilities, workforce status, the care provided, and supply chains. As the number of data sources grows, so does the complexity and burden for data managers, scientists, case officer...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Digital Health Health Workers Source Type: news
COVID-19 Vaccine Drives Increase Coverage in Uganda ’s Eastern Region
August 16, 2022IntraHealth International’sRegional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) project is partnering with the government of Uganda to offer COVID-19 vaccination drives that will provide more people with protection from the virus before a stockpile of the country’s vaccines expire at the end of August.Uganda will have to destroy about1.2 million vaccine doses by the end of August if they remain unused. Vaccine waste is a crucial issue for many countries, reaching as high as30% in some areas. In Uganda, health facilities often receive vaccines from the Uganda National ...
Source: IntraHealth International - August 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Uganda Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-East) Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Source Type: news
2022 IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Explore Health Workforce Development, Family Planning, and Policy and Advocacy
August 10, 2022
Chapel Hill, NCThree students from theIntraHealth-UNC Fellows Program completed their fellowships with IntraHealth International last month, marking the thirteenth year of the partnership between IntraHealth and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). This year’s fellows, who came from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Nursing, spent the summer working side-by-side with global health professionals at IntraHealth. They analyzed strategies for measuring how health workforce interventions affect client health, the global health investment land...
Source: IntraHealth International - August 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health Digital Health Policy Advocacy IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Measurement and Evaluation Source Type: news
Community Outreach Volunteers Help Clients Navigate HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in South Sudan
By Gladys Achan,
Communications OfficerJuly 29, 2022Rose,* a 54-year-old widow and mother of five in Juba, South Sudan, is HIV-positive. She started antiretroviral therapy (ART) as soon as she was diagnosed with HIV in 2018 but did not disclose her status to her children right away—she knew her family might be at risk of contracting HIV and recognized that her children should be tested, but she felt a lot of self-stigma, which held her back from talking about it with them.Rose was also part of a religious community that preached against modern medicine and after listening to healing testimonies from others, she was...
Source: IntraHealth International - July 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Community Health Community Health Workers Source Type: news
Inaugural Cohort Graduates from South Sudan ’s Public Health Institute
August 01, 2022
Juba, South SudanThe first class of the South Sudan Public Health Institute (SSPHI) fellowship program graduated on June 3, 2022. Through support from IntraHealth International, these 42 health workers are now entering the country’s health system with new expertise in data management, leadership management, and governance.Due to decades of conflict in South Sudan, the country’s higher education infrastructure is underdeveloped and there is no institution of higher learning that provides on-the-job learning for the current health workforce. So, the Ministry of Health worked with government, hea...
Source: IntraHealth International - July 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: South Sudan Education & Performance Leadership and Governance Health Workforce Systems Management and Performance Source Type: news
Is a Cure for HIV Finally within Reach?
By Esther Tumbare,
Senior global technical director for HIV
A health worker at the San Marcos National Hospital in Guatemala holds an HIV test. Photo by Levi Dieguez for IntraHealth International.July 26, 2022Despite huge strides and years of methodical research, efforts to find a simple, easily scalable HIV cure have evaded the scientific world. An HIV cure includes both remission and eradication and needs to be accessible to the millions of people living with HIV, most of them in Africa.Today we are closer to a cure than we’ve ever been before.In 2008, the first cure in an HIV-infected patient was announced. ...
Source: IntraHealth International - July 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Source Type: news
Rwanda Focuses on Health Workers to Strengthen COVID-Related Services in 20 Districts
July 08, 2022Health workers in 20 districts throughout Rwanda are making higher-quality health services related to COVID-19 available to more people in their communities, thanks to training through IntraHealth’s USAID-fundedIngobyi project. Together with the Rwanda Ministry of Health, we are improving the quality and accessibility of services related to family planning, maternal and newborn health, as well as malaria prevention and treatment.“When COVID-19 began to spread in 2020, we had to pivot our preexisting plans and implementation strategies to make sure health workers had the right supplies and training ...
Source: IntraHealth International - July 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Rwanda Ingobyi Family Planning & Reproductive Health Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Malaria Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Health workforce development Global health security Systems Health Workers Source Type: news
IntraHealth Reached 317,443 Health Workers in 2021, Extending Health Care to Millions
June 29, 2022
Chapel Hill, NCDuring 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, IntraHealth International reached 317,443 health workers in 42 countries, helping to make high-quality health care available to more people around the world. Our programs led to:$33,399,555 in financial aid provided for student health workers through IntraHealth programs2,524,424 COVID-19 vaccines distributed through IntraHealth programs223,677 men provided with voluntary medical male circumcision to prevent HIV infection2,264,216 messages sent to and from health workers via mHero, WhatsApp, or other digital health tools898,190 individual...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Health Areas Family Planning & Reproductive Health HIV AIDS Infectious Diseases Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Mental Health Noncommunicable Diseases Nutrition Community Engagement Digital Health Education Performance Heal Source Type: news
IntraHealth Stands for Reproductive Health and Rights
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth InternationalJune 27, 2022The June 24, 2022 US Supreme Courtruling to overturn Roe v. Wade ends the constitutional right to abortion in the United States—a health service that both theUnited Nations and theWorld Health Organization have determined to be a human right and an essential part of high-quality health care. We atIntraHealth International staunchly oppose this ruling. Our vision for over 40 years has been to expand access to health services and make them available to everyone everywhere—this decision from the US Supreme Court goes against everything we st...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health Gender Equality Health Workforce Systems Source Type: news
IntraHealth Continues to Support USAID ’s Local Partner Transition for PEPFAR Funded Projects through a New Contract
June 22, 2022Through a bridge award from USAID, IntraHealth International has begun phase two of the Accelerating Support to Advanced Local Partners II(ASAP II) project and will continue to provide support and capacity-building services to local partners in sub-Saharan African countries. ASAP II builds on the successes of ASAP I and will rapidly prepare local organizations and government entities to have the capabilities and resources to serve as prime partners for USAID and US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programming.IntraHealth International will lead the USAID project with con...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Africa Accelerating Support to Advanced Local Partners II (ASAP II) HIV & AIDS Leadership and Governance Health Workforce Systems Management and Performance Source Type: news
