US Global Health Policy

By Alain Kaboré, Family Care International Community outreach brings fistula survivors out of the shadows. Courtesy FCI. “Today,” Mariama Boubacar Diallo says, “Thank God, I no longer suffer. I’m healthy; I am healed.” Mariama, a resident of the village of Kriollo Ourarsaba, located in the northern...

By Vince Blaser, Deputy Director, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Just how different the pregnancy, childbirth and early childhood experience can be was strewn on their faces, illustrated in their stories and validated by their work experience. Four seasoned midwives – with a combined century of...

By Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Note: This blog was originally posted on the Global Health Impact blog Photo credit: Dominic Chavez Our MSH colleague Lucy Sakala was an HIV counselor in Malawi . She worked with clients who were receiving HIV...

By Mandy Folse, Director, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Note: This post originally appeared in the ONE Campaign Blog Almost every week on this blog, someone from our 30 member organizations tells another story illustrating the inspiring and tremendous impact frontline health workers are making...

By Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International and Louise Holly, Save the Children UK Note: This blog was originally posted on the Impatient Optimists blog Last week with the Capitol Dome in Washington, DC, looming in the background, seven health workers from across the United States—from a hospice worker...

By Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, USAID and Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally posted on March 4, 2013 in the USAID IMPACT blog. Ariel Pablos-Mendez (left), Assistant Administrator for Global Health and Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International. Photo credit...

By Jennifer James, Mom Bloggers for Social Good Note: This post original appeared in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Blog Impatient Optimists Yesterday in Laguna Nigel, California, nine extraordinary US-based health workers were presented with REAL Awards honors at the inaugural Patient Safety...

Mary Beth Powers, Chair, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Nearly one year ago, Eric Goosby – the United States Global AIDS Ambassador and new Ambassador for Global Health Diplomacy – made a simple yet powerful statement that exemplifies why we founded the Frontline Health Workers Coalition...

By Kelly Willis, Accordia Global Health Foundation Outbreaks of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Africa’s Great Lakes region have claimed hundreds of lives in the last 20 years, but thanks to the courageous efforts of United States government-supported frontline health workers like Brenda Picho, an...

By Joan Holloway, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care As we approach World AIDS Day tomorrow, the inspiration of health workers like Dr. Andrew Ocero comes to my mind. Andrew served as the director of clinical services at the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS Tuberculosis Programme...