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Mary Beth Powers, Chair, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Nearly one year ago, Eric Goosby – the United States Global AIDS Ambassador and new Ambassador for Global Health Diplomacy – made a simple yet powerful statement that exemplifies why we founded the Frontline Health Workers Coalition...

By Mary O’Neil, EdD, principal program associate, Human Resources for Health, Management Sciences for Health Evidence of the need to scale up the number of frontline health workers in developing countries abounds throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as described in the recent post in this blog by Avril...

By Kelly Willis, Accordia Global Health Foundation Outbreaks of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Africa’s Great Lakes region have claimed hundreds of lives in the last 20 years, but thanks to the courageous efforts of United States government-supported frontline health workers like Brenda Picho, an...

By: Lisa Bos, World Vision Photo Credit: Abby Metty/World Vision Just a few months after starting to work for World Vision, I was able to make my first trip to see our programs in action. My country of choice was Zambia, for several reasons: it’s an English-speaking country (important when the...

By Joan Holloway, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care As we approach World AIDS Day tomorrow, the inspiration of health workers like Dr. Andrew Ocero comes to my mind. Andrew served as the director of clinical services at the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS Tuberculosis Programme...

By: Carol Bales and Rachel Deussom, IntraHealth International The “son of the community” takes part in a community meeting. The local people call him “the son of the community.” On the verge of tears, he listens as they proudly say, “The dust will fly even if it’s raining, because we will be dancing...

By: Meredith L. Ritchie, White Ribbon Alliance Photo courtesy of the White Ribbon Alliance Uganda Uganda deserves praise! The government recently committed to recruiting more than 1,014 midwives; 1,436 nurses; 758 nursing officers; 223 medical doctors; 283 anesthetists; 1,101 clinical officers; and...

By: Mike Gravett, Scientific Director, GAPPS Photo credit: Paul Joseph Brown / GAPPS As a frontline health worker here in the U.S., far too often I see babies born prematurely and the long-term and sometimes life-threatening effects of an early birth. It’s difficult to fathom that around the world...

By: Catherine D'Souza, Pallliative Care Coordinator, Integrated Hospice Unit Cameroon Baptist Convention Photo By: C. D’Souza This is the story of Hope, a cancer patient cared for by the palliative care team of Integrated Hospice Program Cameroon Baptist Convention in Bui Division, Cameroon. Through...

By: Lisa Meadowcroft, AMREF Photo Credit: AMREF The final segment of the presidential debates is over. Unfortunately, not much was said about the importance and impact of US aid to developing countries. We all know that the global economic climate is tough and it’s unreasonable to expect any...