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Gender, gender, gender. Everyone is talking about it, but are they really addressing it? The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Management Sciences for Health (MSH) collaborated to bring experts to the InterAction Forum 2011 to discuss gender integration in health programs. While much is known about how gender-based constraints adversely affect health, social, and economic development, [...]
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Part six of the blog series: Spotlight on Global Health Initiative Plus Countries Amid grave health statistics, the Global Health Initiative (GHI) brings hope of a healthier future in Mali. Mali is one of the ten poorest countries in the world, ranking 173 out of 175 countries on the 2007 Human Development index of the United [...]
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The Global Health Initiative (GHI) and its approach of integrating health programs with HIV & AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, and family planning and reproductive health is in line with the current approaches and health priorities of the Government of Malawi. Malawi, with a population of slightly over 13 million people, [...]
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Bangladesh, which is situated in a resource poor setting with a population of over 150 million, faces the major health challenge of a high maternal mortality rate. In the 1970s, the maternal mortality rate was 700 deaths per 100,000, and now it is still at 320 per 100,000. Although Bangladesh has made progress in reducing [...]
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Part three of the blog series: Spotlight on Global Health Initiative Plus Countries Health Financing is Helping Rebuild Rwanda’s Health Sector It’s been over 15 year since the Rwandan genocide, few would know of the tremendous successes in health that the country has experienced. Rwanda has made good progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals since [...]
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Part two of the blog series: Spotlight on Global Health Initiative Plus Countries Global Health Initiative Aligns with Guatemala’s Integrated Approach to Health Challenges The Global Health Initiative (GHI), with its plans for integrated programs across the spectrum of infectious diseases, maternal and child health, family planning and health systems, seems like it was designed specifically [...]
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Part one of the blog series: Spotlight on Global Health Initiative Plus Countries Gender Mainstreaming in Ethiopia With the announcement of the “GHI Plus” countries, we have a major opportunity to move the gender agenda beyond the rhetoric. The new guidelines clearly show that this issue is not only important, but also one of the [...]
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In mid-June the United States Government continued to show its commitment to global health by announcing the first Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, and Rwanda. The GHI is a six-year, $63 billion initiative to help partner countries improve measurable health outcomes by strengthening health systems and building [...]
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