This edition of MSH’s Global Health Impact e-newsletter (subscribe) explores our worldwide work supporting healthy communities, families and kids, including: Mobilizing communities to care for orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho; Empowering Ugandan couples with information and access to modern family planning; Training community health workers to provide TB services in rural Afghanistan; Supporting Kenya’s [...]
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World Health Worker Week (#WHWW) 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 educating the community was something we had to focus on,” says Madina, a trained Afghan midwife, as [...]
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In a postoperative ward of Kibagabaga Hospital, the district hospital serving Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, Eric Bizimana sits up in bed. Bizimana, 25, had sought care after severe pain in his right leg forced him to stop work as a barber. He was diagnosed with a bone infection called osteomyelitis. Antibiotics alone couldn’t [...]
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Stop TB in my lifetime. This global call to action—the Stop TB Partnership’s theme for March 24, World TB Day 2013—is as relevant now as it was over a hundred years ago. Progress toward reducing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) has been impressive in recent years: TB mortality has fallen by 41 percent [...]
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Sunday, March 24, 2013, is World TB Day, and MSH staff and partners are promoting global efforts to stop TB throughout the week. Here are highlights from some of our activities around the world: The Afghanistan TB CARE I team is working with the national TB program (NTP) to conduct celebration events at 290 [...]
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In my 35 years working in international health, I’ve attended hundreds of conferences. Conferences are opportunities to exchange ideas and form connections. They’re often fascinating. But once in a while a conference itself can be a pivotal moment. A great example was last year’s International AIDS Conference, the first held in the United States after President [...]
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Private sector companies, like McDonald’s and General Electric, have successfully been using internal universities or academies for decades. So how can programming for health service managers be better, more cost effective and more sustainable? Embed programming within special “Leadership Academies” based in ministries of health.
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A new report from the USAID-funded Afghan Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation (SWSS) Project, led by Tetra Tech ARD, describes the methodology and results from the Sustainable Health Outcomes component, led by Management Sciences for Health (MSH). The SWSS project worked to improve the health and infrastructure of rural Afghans, with an emphasis on [...]
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Management Sciences for Health (MSH) invites you to attend the following sessions and poster presentations at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Arusha, Tanzania — whether in person at the Arusha International Conference Center, or watching via archived videos online. (All times are listed in Eastern Africa Time: UTC/GMT +3 hours. Sessions will be recorded and available within 24 [...]
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“Investing in Asia” (PDF), a new supplement published by MediaPlanet as part of its “Investing in Development” series, hit newsstands in select markets of USA Today on Friday, December 21, transporting readers to the Asian continent. MSH President and CEO Dr. Jonathan D. Quick was interviewed in the “Panel of Experts” section. Asked by MediaPlanet [...]
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