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Tanzania’s New Task Sharing Policy Puts Social Service Workers on the Frontlines of HIV/AIDS Care

Task sharing is a critical mechanism helping Tanzania achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets of getting 90% of all of people living with HIV aware of their status, 90% of those diagnosed on sustained antiretroviral treatment, and 90% of those on treatment maintaining durable viral suppression by 2020.

From “Non” to “Oui”: How Community Health Workers are Revolutionizing Contraceptive Access, Use in Benin

Benin is preparing to introduce Sayana® Press, a new contraceptive delivery system that will expand the available method mix.

Strengthening the global health workforce

By: Hunter Isgrig, FHI 360 This blog was originally posted on FHI 360's blog, Degrees. The World Health Organization estimates that the current shortage of global health care workers is 7.2 million. Without intervention, this number will soar to 18 million by 2030. Rachel Deussom, an FHI 360 expert...

World Health Worker Week 2017

World Health Worker Week is an opportunity to mobilize communities, partners, and policy makers in support of health workers in your community and around the world. It is a time to celebrate the amazing work that they do and it is a time to raise awareness to the challenges they face every day...

World Social Work Day Reinforces Need for a Strong Social Service Workforce to Attain Our Global Goals

by Nicole Brown, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Today we mark World Social Work Day to increase attention and political will for greater planning, development and support to the social service workforce. Celebrated the second Tuesday in March annually since 1983, World Social Work Day...

Unlikely health workers in Bangladesh: Celebrating female frontline health workers on International Women’s Day

Every year, on International Women’s Day, the global health community takes the opportunity to celebrate the progress made for gender equality and women’s health and rights around the world.

The Female-Dominated Health Sector Needs More Women

By Corinne Mahoney, IntraHealth International A lot has changed in health care since Peter Abwao grew up in a rural village in Kenya. Back then you couldn’t use a cell phone to beckon a health worker in the middle of the night. There was no website a parent could consult about a child’s symptoms...

Task Sharing in Tanzania: The Expanded Role of Nurses in HIV/AIDS Care

By Kathryn Utan and Ronald Nakaka, American International Health Alliance Mkuranga is one of six districts along the coast of the Indian Ocean that form Tanzania’s Pwani Region just south of Dar es Salaam,. About 190,000 people live in the 15 wards and 101 villages that make up the diminutive...

One Family’s Quiet Quest for Namibia’s HIV-Free Generation

By Margarite Nathe, IntraHealth International It’s delicate work, talking with clients who’ve stopped taking their HIV medicines, says Loide Iikuyu, a community health worker at Onandjokwe Hospital in remote northern Namibia. “I talk with them so peacefully,” she says. “You must talk, slowly by...

Malawi Tracks Essential Health Service Delivery Through USAID-Backed Integrated Supportive Supervision System

By Sarah Dominis, Abt Associates The responsibility of the Malawian Ministry of Health to save and improve the lives of its people relies on data from even the most remote health centers on the quality of services they provide. Thanks in part to the USAID-supported Support for Service Delivery...