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By Sarah Dwyer and Carol Bales, IntraHealth International A young boy—we’ll call him Mani—was living on the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He had no one to look after him, nowhere to go. He was just nine years old. Mani’s situation is not unique. One quarter of...

By Julia Nakad, Hesperian Health Guides Dr. Aruna Uprety is a physician, women’s health activist and journalist in Nepal who knows that improving women’s healthcare takes a combination hard work, determination, and inspiration. She has been involved with a number of women’s health campaigns in Nepal...

By Brigid McConville, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Earlier this month, hundreds of White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) members from around the world were in Prague for the 30 th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives. The congress provided an opportunity for midwives...

By Dr. Keith Baleeta, Julian Natukunda, University Research Co./ USAID SUSTAIN Project and Irene Biraro-Seguya, Initiatives Inc. A core challenge to fighting HIV in Uganda, as elsewhere in the developing world, is the diligence of overburdened frontline healthcare workers in getting people to test...

By Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Family Care International (FCI) This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post In 1998, Fatimata Kané was still a practicing midwife, visiting a local village when she met Kadija.* Kadija was pregnant and nearing the end of her third trimester. Fatimata could...

This post originally appeared on the CapacityPlus blog . By Ángela Diaz Fermin, IntraHealth and Alex Collins, IntraHealth Health clinic in the Dominican Republic. Courtesy CapacityPlus. “It was very, very bad treatment that I received,” recalls Mercedes (not her real name), a young mother living...

By Chris Thomas, USAID This post originally appeared on the USAID Frontlines Blog Djenebou Keita, a community health worker, tests a 2-year-old boy for malaria in Mali, one of 19 focus countries that benefit from the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative. Photo courtesy of USAID. With her 3-month-old...

By Mandy Folse, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Here at the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, we often say “American leadership matters” in driving action toward addressing the human resource gaps that severely hinder progress in saving lives and enabling prosperity around the world. This...

By One Million Community Health Workers Campaign Currently, it is difficult for the global community to assess the state of the world’s community health workers. How many community health workers are out there? Who do they work in partnership with? What services do they offer? How are national...

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition The 67th World Health Assembly (WHA), an annual gathering of the world's health ministers, began today in Geneva. This year's WHA comes at a particularly crucial moment for leadership to ensure the world has the health workforce needed to deliver a...