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In a recent article with the Humanosphere Blog - a leading source for original commentary on major global health issues - the Frontline Health Workers Coalition (FHWC) highlighted the need for increased support for local health workers responding to Ebola. Although stories about the life-saving...

This article originally appeared in Devex. By Margarite Nathe, IntraHealth International When it started in the early 1980s, everyone was scared. No one knew how to help the people who were filling U.S. hospitals and then swiftly dying, or what to do for others suffering the same fate around the...

By Melissa Wanda, Family Care International, Kenya In a village in rural Kenya, a woman in labor travels miles along rutted dirt roads to get to the nearest health center. She wants to give herself and her baby the greatest possible chance of surviving childbirth and returning home to begin new and...

By Julia Nakad, Hesperian Health Guides Rural Chiapas might appear to be an unlikely place for mHealth initiatives to gain traction – with one person in four unable to read, and little cell phone reception or internet connectivity in the mountains, it would seem that accessing understandable...

By Cindil Redick, One Million Community Health Workers Campaign CONARKY, Guinea – How many community health workers (CHWs) are there? What are community health workers’ tasks? How can we more efficiently integrate CHWs into national health systems? Global public health leaders widely acknowledge...

By Annette C. Sheckler, Management Sciences for Health Ayelew Adinew was working as a pharmacist in a large public hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He looked around and saw that the 100-year old pharmaceutical system was broken. There was no transparent and accountable system for providing the...

By: Tunde Ajidagba, Women Deliver Young Leader, Nigeria In the past 15 years, there has been substantial achievement toward reaching Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, which seek to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Since 1990, the baseline year for the MDGs, child and...

By Aanjalie Collure and Zoe Matza, IntraHealth International Originally from the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative Blog Last week, global leaders convened in New York City to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and several side-events dedicated to facilitating discussion on major...

By Aanjalie Collure, IntraHealth International and Frontline Health Workers Coalition At the Global Health Security Agenda meeting hosted by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and its partners on Sept. 26, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Melvin Korkor, a physician, lecturer and Ebola survivor...

Report by alliance of top US-based organizations urges nations to maximize impact of CHWs by defining core competencies Contact: Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition, vblaser@intrahealth.org or +1 301 787 4131 Cape Town, South Africa, September 29, 2014 – A new report finds that...