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By Donna Bjerregaard, Senior Technical Advisor, Initiatives Inc. Note: This blog was originally posted on Feb. 15, 2013, on the Knowledge for Health Blog. The global shortage of health workers has created cracks in the bridge to health services for Africa’s communities. Many countries and donors are...

By Mimi Pomerleau, Board of Directors, AWHONN As an OB nurse working in Boston and president of the Board of Directors of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), I was given the opportunity to visit Ethiopia to experience firsthand how engagement at the community...

By Laura Hoemeke, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally posted on Feb. 8, 2013, on the Intrahealth's Global Health Blog. First Pakistan, now Nigeria. Polio workers murdered on the job. Between December and January, at least 16 polio workers were killed in Pakistan, according to...

By Bob Gillespie, Population Communication I recently returned from Bangladesh where, as a Ford Foundation consultant from 1975 to 1978, I helped select, train, mobilize, supervise and evaluate 6,700 traditional birth attendants (TBAs), 13,500 Dais (village midwives), 13,500 family welfare...

By Jeff Meer, Public Health Institute Frontline health workers face enormous challenges and must be prepared to adapt to changing circumstances. One of the largest changes occurring in global health is increasing urgency for health workers to prevent, diagnose and treat non-communicable diseases...

By Kate Greene, Partners In Health Three years ago, a devastating earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince and its environs, killing more than 250,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Many of us remember the intensive news coverage showing frontline health workers, both Haitian and those from around...

By Jennifer James, Mom Bloggers for Social Good Note: This post original appeared in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Blog Impatient Optimists Yesterday in Laguna Nigel, California, nine extraordinary US-based health workers were presented with REAL Awards honors at the inaugural Patient Safety...

By Jennifer Schlecht, Women’s Refugee Commission In times of crisis, we depend on the most fail-safe of interventions: people helping people. In response to war, civil strife, floods or other disasters, a human health work force on the front lines saves lives. It is for this reason, the Women’s...

By Sara Anderson, ReSurge International When 8-month old-Bishal from rural Nepal fell into the family’s open cooking fire, his mother had to travel more than seven hours to seek emergency care for him at the closest hospital. No one in the village or at the local health post knew what to do – and...

By David Bryden, Stop TB Officer, RESULTS This post originally appeared in the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership Blog For many people, tuberculosis is a dirty word associated with poverty and poor living conditions. And when a patient is contagious, there is a risk to others. All of this can...