Infectious diseases

This post originally appeared on the Vital Blog By Mohamed Jallow, IntraHealth International “I am afraid for my life, I must say, because I cherish my life," said Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, one of the leading doctors fighting the spread of the Ebola virus in eastern Sierra Leone. Last week, Dr. Khan’s...

By Kait Atkins, Jhpiego This week, thousands of health workers, researchers and advocates gather in Melbourne, Australia, for the 20 th International AIDS Conference. Tragically, we lost several of these dedicated professionals aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. Their loss is felt and mourned...

By Dr. Keith Baleeta, Julian Natukunda, University Research Co./ USAID SUSTAIN Project and Irene Biraro-Seguya, Initiatives Inc. A core challenge to fighting HIV in Uganda, as elsewhere in the developing world, is the diligence of overburdened frontline healthcare workers in getting people to test...

This post originally appeared on the CapacityPlus blog . By Ángela Diaz Fermin, IntraHealth and Alex Collins, IntraHealth Health clinic in the Dominican Republic. Courtesy CapacityPlus. “It was very, very bad treatment that I received,” recalls Mercedes (not her real name), a young mother living...

By Chris Thomas, USAID This post originally appeared on the USAID Frontlines Blog Djenebou Keita, a community health worker, tests a 2-year-old boy for malaria in Mali, one of 19 focus countries that benefit from the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative. Photo courtesy of USAID. With her 3-month-old...

By Stembile Mugore, IntraHealth I wonder if the midwives I have met and worked with in rural East and Southern Africa know that today is the International Day of the Midwife. In their honor, I wish to share the typical working day of one midwife I've observed. I’ll call her Jane. How does her day...

By Mandy Folse, Director, Frontline Health Workers Coalition At 2 p.m. Eastern today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes up the nomination of Dr. Deborah Birx to be the next leader of one of the great successes in United States foreign assistance – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...

By Chelsea Bailey, Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation This fall, Francesca Celletti, MD, joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) as the new Director of Health Systems Strengthening. We sat down with Dr. Celletti to talk about the hallmarks of a robust health system, how...

By John Byabagambi, University Research Co. Working with frontline health workers to improve medicines use and management in HIV care NOTE: This post originally appeared in the K4Health Blog. Humphrey Megere and Tana Wulji, both URC staff of USAID’s Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems...

By Eric Kilongi, Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Note: This post originally appeared in the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation's Blog. Though HIV can be transmitted from mother to child through breast milk, studies have shown that women living with HIV are less likely to pass the...