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Cross-posted from the MSH at Women Deliver 2013 conference blog and WomenDeliver.org. Join us in person or virtually at Women Deliver’s 3rd Global Conference for more discussions on how women lead on Tuesday, May 28, at the MSH booth: #277/283/284, on Twitter @MSHHealthImpact using hashtags #WOMENLEAD and #WD2013, and on MSH’s Facebook page. Strong Women [...]
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With less than 1000 days until the Millennium Development Goals expire, the process for setting post-2015 goals continues to ramp up. We take this opportunity to reflect on the current state of community health systems in low- and middle-income countries and consider how the post-2015 agenda could reshape them—perhaps dramatically. Community health systems today [...]
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The state of tuberculosis (TB) is in a tug-of-war as current challenges threaten to undo past successes. One of the primary hurdles currently facing TB prevention and cure is the emergence of strains that are resistant to at least two of the most effective medicines (rifampicin and isoniazid). So-called drug-resistant (DR)-TB arises when patients [...]
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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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For most of my life, women in Uganda—as in most countries—were treated as inferior to men. Girls were less likely to be educated than their brothers, and had little control over the direction of their lives. Many girls grew up being told how to act, eat, and talk; many women were regarded as little [...]
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Fact or fiction? About 70% of all cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Nearly 30% of cancer deaths could be prevented. Many cancers (such as breast, cervical and colorectal cancer) can be cured, if detected early and treated adequately. Cancers are killing more people in developing countries than HIV & AIDS, malaria, and [...]
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We have seen some remarkable gains in global health in 2012. Yet millions of women, children, and men still die from preventable causes. As we pause and reflect on 2012 and look ahead to the new year, I invite you to read and share some of our favorite blog posts from the year. Saving women’s lives: [...]
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Using a basic household item like vinegar to screen for a deadly disease is one of those “Aha!” solutions that will save lives. I had never imagined that I’d get to see the procedure in action. Cervical cancer kills some 250,000 women every year — over 80 percent from low-income countries, according to the World [...]
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The Ugandan government launched a new prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) strategy on September 12. Uganda will transition from an approach based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Option A — which is contingent on an HIV-positive pregnant woman’s CD4 count — to WHO’s newest PMTCT strategy, Option B+. Option B+ — whereby HIV-positive pregnant women [...]
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