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By: By Avril Ogrodnick, Abt Associates Photo Credit: John Palen Countries seeking to expand health services to the community-level to ensure equity of access to care frequently turn to community health workers (CHW) as an essential expansion of the health team. A variety of approaches to training...

By: Congressman Robert Dold Representing Illinois' 10th Congressional District. In the United States, polio was successfully eradicated in 1977. For years, this disease plagued the world and took the lives of countless children, and left many others disabled. Today, because of increased government...

By: Nargis Shirazi, Women Deliver 100 Young Leader A CHW doing growth monitoring using a MUAC tapePhoto By: Women Deliver It is a cold rainy day, and a pregnant mother’s water has just broken. A young man stares at the pouring rain hitting the muddy path and sighs. He has no way of getting his wife...

By: Tara Fisher, Save the Children Photo Credit: Save the Children Every year, awards are given to recognize the accomplishments of celebrities, actors, singers, athletes and entertainers. But what about the REAL people who don’t just play a doctor or nurse on TV? The ones on the frontlines who are...

By Sarah Dwyer and Rachel Deussom, IntraHealth International Health workers shouldn’t have to put themselves at risk in order to do their jobs. But in fact, many frontline health workers face a wide range of occupational safety and health hazards—biological, physical, chemical, and psychosocial, as...

Photo courtesy of IntraHealth International By: Taylor Marie Snyder, IntraHealth International After three-plus years of “working in India,” last month I finally had the opportunity to actually work in India. Prior to my UNC-IntraHealth Fellowship, I worked on a program promoting reproductive health...

By Lauren Crigler and Donna Bjerregaard, Initiatives Inc. Initiatives Inc Community health workers (CHWs) are the ultimate frontline health workers in many health systems around the globe, playing a vital role in extending services to the most underserved populations. Last month, 60 decision-makers...

By: Corinne Farrell and Girdhari Bora, IntraHealth International Photo Credits: IntraHealth Mobile Application Reinforces Frontline Health Workers’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Credibility In rural India, frontline health workers—called accredited social health activists (or ASHAs)—are improving the...

By: Samantha Edelmann, Save the Children Left: Scarlett, age 2, at The Big Latch On in Brookfield CT. Photo by Sarah Settanni for Save the Children Right: Miamouna Bagayoko, age 4, in Satiguila, Mali. Photo by Joshua Roberts for Save the Children From the moment I found out I was expecting my entire...

By: Joan Holloway, IAPAC The 19 th International AIDS Conference, held in Washington, DC last week, was attended by nearly 30,000 health care providers, policy makers, researchers, press and grassroots caregivers. The overwhelming message from the conference was one of hope that someday, in the not...