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By Ann LoLordo, Jhpiego Lanyi, South Sudan – Not much can keep Mary Rose Dalaka from ensuring pregnant women in this verdant farming community receive the lifesaving care they need to survive childbirth. When the motorbike she was riding on got stuck in knee-high mud, this nurse-midwife hopped off...

By Heather Teixeira, Frontline Health Workers Coalition From 2009 to 2011, I lived at a small health clinic in a rural village, Mondo, in the Dodoma region of Tanzania. The clinic—staffed by two health workers: a nurse and an assistant nurse—served a population of 14,000 people. The clinic had been...

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition From the halls of the United Nations, to the set of Good Morning America, to the cheers from 75,000 gathered for a concert in Central Park – a common refrain reverberated in New York City last week: “health workers count.” Now, the global health...

By Mandy Moore, Global Ambassador, PSI PSI Ambassador Mandy Moore visits with the patient of a community health worker in a small village in Cameroon. Courtesy PSI. Two years ago I traveled to Cameroon with global health organization, PSI. We set out from the capital city of Yaoundé and traveled by...

By Kirstin Krudwig, SC4CCM Malawian frontline health worker Petro Kangulu describes how to take medication prescribed to a sick child. Courtesy JSI. As a frontline health worker in Malawi, Petro Kangulu is one of approximately 4,000 health surveillance assistants (HSA) focused on improving the...

By John Byabagambi, University Research Co. Working with frontline health workers to improve medicines use and management in HIV care NOTE: This post originally appeared in the K4Health Blog. Humphrey Megere and Tana Wulji, both URC staff of USAID’s Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems...

By Jeffrey Walker and Ray Chambers, MDG Health Alliance NOTE: This piece was originally posted in The Huffington Post Impact Blog. Summer is winding down. Store shelves are stocked with notebooks and pencils instead of sunscreen and beach balls. And for most kids, the essential back-to-school...

By Richard Seifman, Consultant, IntraHealth International Courtesy IntraHealth International NOTE: This piece was originally posted on the IntraHealth Global Health Blog. Every so often, a prevailing system or approach changes dramatically. Small changes and tweaks to the status quo give way to a...

By Karen Peddicord, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nur ses (AWHONN) If you are beyond the intersections of certain health care circles, our association name, AWHONN (the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses), might not be familiar to you. But I hope you...

By Musoni Pascal, Susan Moffson and Jérémie Zoungrana, Jhpiego Busoga, Rwanda—With her labor pains intensifying, Epiphanie Nyirankurikiyimana knew the time had come to leave for the health facility. Rather than give birth at home without skilled care, the 25-year-old mother, pregnant with her second...