Africa

By Mimi Pomerleau, Board of Directors, AWHONN As an OB nurse working in Boston and president of the Board of Directors of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), I was given the opportunity to visit Ethiopia to experience firsthand how engagement at the community...

By Laura Hoemeke, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally posted on Feb. 8, 2013, on the Intrahealth's Global Health Blog. First Pakistan, now Nigeria. Polio workers murdered on the job. Between December and January, at least 16 polio workers were killed in Pakistan, according to...

By Mary O’Neil, EdD, principal program associate, Human Resources for Health, Management Sciences for Health Evidence of the need to scale up the number of frontline health workers in developing countries abounds throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as described in the recent post in this blog by Avril...

By Kelly Willis, Accordia Global Health Foundation Outbreaks of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Africa’s Great Lakes region have claimed hundreds of lives in the last 20 years, but thanks to the courageous efforts of United States government-supported frontline health workers like Brenda Picho, an...

By: Lisa Bos, World Vision Photo Credit: Abby Metty/World Vision Just a few months after starting to work for World Vision, I was able to make my first trip to see our programs in action. My country of choice was Zambia, for several reasons: it’s an English-speaking country (important when the...

By: Carol Bales and Rachel Deussom, IntraHealth International The “son of the community” takes part in a community meeting. The local people call him “the son of the community.” On the verge of tears, he listens as they proudly say, “The dust will fly even if it’s raining, because we will be dancing...

By: Meredith L. Ritchie, White Ribbon Alliance Photo courtesy of the White Ribbon Alliance Uganda Uganda deserves praise! The government recently committed to recruiting more than 1,014 midwives; 1,436 nurses; 758 nursing officers; 223 medical doctors; 283 anesthetists; 1,101 clinical officers; and...

By: Catherine D'Souza, Pallliative Care Coordinator, Integrated Hospice Unit Cameroon Baptist Convention Photo By: C. D’Souza This is the story of Hope, a cancer patient cared for by the palliative care team of Integrated Hospice Program Cameroon Baptist Convention in Bui Division, Cameroon. Through...

By: Lisa Meadowcroft, AMREF Photo Credit: AMREF The final segment of the presidential debates is over. Unfortunately, not much was said about the importance and impact of US aid to developing countries. We all know that the global economic climate is tough and it’s unreasonable to expect any...

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...