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Restituta Achieved Her Dream Of Helping Other Women

Restituta Mabilla Limbe is a determined 34-year-old woman who always dreamed of helping women and young girls in her community.

Champion Women to Address the Health Workforce’s Leaky Pipeline

Humanitarian emergencies caused by infectious disease, conflict, and natural disasters have caused shock after shock to health systems worldwide.

The Humanity Behind Frontline Health Care

The job is difficult, frustrating, risky—and immensely rewarding. The Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health began with six powerful accounts from the front lines of health care.

Nurses and Stories Are a Powerful Combination

By Cecilia Amaral, IntraHealth International and Frontline Health Workers Coalition This blog was originally posted on Vital, the IntraHealth International blog. Samalie Kitooleko wants you to know that nurses are independent professionals who undergo years of education and do not simply take orders...

Unlikely health workers in Bangladesh: Celebrating female frontline health workers on International Women’s Day

Every year, on International Women’s Day, the global health community takes the opportunity to celebrate the progress made for gender equality and women’s health and rights around the world.

The Female-Dominated Health Sector Needs More Women

By Corinne Mahoney, IntraHealth International A lot has changed in health care since Peter Abwao grew up in a rural village in Kenya. Back then you couldn’t use a cell phone to beckon a health worker in the middle of the night. There was no website a parent could consult about a child’s symptoms...

Misoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage: Empowering health workers to save lives

by Shafia Rashid, Management Sciences for Health. This blog was originally posted on Rights and Realities, the FCI Program of MSH. In Senegal, approximately 1,800 women lose their lives every year while giving birth. The major cause of these deaths is uncontrolled bleeding after childbirth, or...

Malawi Struggles in Providing Quality and Accessible Maternal Care

By Enock Mnyenyembe, White Ribbon Alliance. Malawi Introduction by Elena Ateva, White Ribbon Alliance. The vital contributions of midwifery for women and newborns to survive and thrive is well recognized. The 2014 Lancet Series on Midwifery proved the case for a renewed commitment to midwifery that...

Health workers: The unattended resource

By Melissa Wanda Kirowo, FCI Program of Management Sciences for Health This post was originally published in the FCI program of MSH blog Rights and Realities At Women Deliver 2016 conference in May, I had the opportunity to talk with one of a number of young midwives attending the conference...

International Women’s Day: Women #MakeItHappen on the Frontlines of Global Health

By Aanjalie Collure, IntraHealth International Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images Today, March 8, when the global community comes together for International Women’s Day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world, we recognize women’s central contribution to the global...

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