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By Andrew Schroeder, Direct Relief [This blog was originally appeared on the Direct Relief site.] Celebrating World Health Worker Week (April 5 -11, 2015), a new story map from Esri, The Earth Institute at Columbia, and Direct Relief, aims to raise support and awareness for the life changing...

By Annie Geraghty, Accenture Development Partnerships George Ngamia has been selected by his clan as a C ommunity Health Worker (CHW) in Kenya’s Samburu District. The Samburu lead a semi-nomadic lifestyle in a remote area of northern Kenya with little to no access to the formal healthcare system...

This article originally appeared on the Family Care International Blog, available here: http://familycareintl.org/blog/2015/03/04/budget-calendar/ By Kathleen Schaffer, Family Care International A dilapidated clinic, falling tiles, a never-ending leak. Barren and disorganized medicine shelves. An...

By Aanjalie Collure, IntraHealth International Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images Today, March 8, when the global community comes together for International Women’s Day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world, we recognize women’s central contribution to the global...

This article originally appeared in the Center for Global Health Policy's Science Speaks blog, available here. Photo from FHWC Congressional Briefing on "Building the Health Workforce We Need to Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation." From left to right: Dr. Kate Tulenko (Vice President, Health Systems...

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An independent analysis released today and commissioned by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition (FHWC) finds that scaling up the local health workforce in West Africa is a cost-effective investment to help end the Ebola epidemic, restore...

The Frontline Health Workers Coalition recommends that the U.S. Government and its partners address the public health emergency resulting for the Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea by investing in the training, retention, and support of frontline health workers. Based on the...

By Susan W. Hayes, ReSurge International Seven years ago, young Mohammed Hussein was playing with friends near his home in Bangladesh when an accident occurred that would change his life forever. He and his friends were beside a road that was being paved, when Mohammed Hussein fell into a vat of hot...

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition If not well thought out or without a plan to garner support or how to implement, strategies can be boring, dry and ineffective in driving action. On the other hand, strategies with a clear vision backed by governments, civil society, the private...

By Deepanjali Jain, IntraHealth International Early next week, 34 technical experts on health representing World Health Organization member-states will meet to set the agenda for the largest and most influential gathering of health ministers and civil society organizations of the year: the World...