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By Mary Beth Powers, Save the Children Note: This blog was originally posted on the Impatient Optimists blog Yetagesu Alema, a frontline health worker, is standing in front of the Germana Gale Health Post in Ethiopia. Photo courtesy: Save the Children As we drove down a dusty road in Northern...

By Joan Holloway and Imane Sidibe, International Association of Providers of AIDS Care In this first ever World Health Worker Week, it is important to recognize the critical role frontline health worker are playing in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. According to UNAIDS, an estimated 34...

Note: This was originally posted on Management Sciences for Health's (MSH) blog. World Health Worker Week is April 8-12, 2013. Let’s show the world just how much #HealthWorkersCount. Watch and share the video, thank a health worker, and donate $10 in honor of a health worker. “We realized that...

By Dr. Kaosar Afsana, BRAC Note: This post was originally published on BRAC Blog The patient, pictured here with a birth attendant and a community health worker, is an active participant in her own well-being. Photo courtesy: BRAC Not long ago, Bangladesh had one of the highest maternal mortality...

By Dr. Meenakshi Gautham, IDEAS India Country Coordinator and Research Fellow. Note: This post was originally published on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s IDEAS blog. Introduction to workshop by Amod Kumar, Manthan Project Director. Photo credit: IntraHealth International...

By Kim S. Martin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs In recognition of International Women’s Day, we would like to applaud the frontline family planning providers, who help women and their partners make decisions that keep mothers, children and families...

By Mary Beth Powers, Chair of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition This week is Patient Safety Week – not widely recognized YET –but perhaps it should be… I had the opportunity to join the Patient-Safety Summit organized by the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Health...

By Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, USAID and Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally posted on March 4, 2013 in the USAID IMPACT blog. Ariel Pablos-Mendez (left), Assistant Administrator for Global Health and Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International. Photo credit...

By Julia Bluestone, Jhpiego The following is a Q&A between Julia Bluestone of Jhpiego and the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Dr. Henry Perry of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on a recently released report examining community health workers’ effectiveness in saving lives...

By Lisa Meadowcroft, Executive Director, AMREF USA In the slums of Tandale just outside of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-year-old sex worker Veronika wonders how she will ever take care of her newborn. At seven months pregnant, her clients are diminishing, she can’t afford rent and her family back...