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By Michelle Korte, IntraHealth International and Frontline Health Workers Coalition Listening – that’s what I’m here to do at SwitchPoint, IntraHealth International’s annual “unconference” hosted in rustic Saxapahaw, nestled along the Haw River in an arrestingly green North Carolina wood. Listening...

By Gillian Leitch, Jhpiego Uganda At the 2017 Nurses and Midwives Symposium in Kampala, Uganda, I had the opportunity to speak with Venny Musasizi, an inspiring midwife working in one of the hardest to reach districts in Uganda. The symposium was co-hosted by Jhpiego, Seed Global Health, Peace Corps...

Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) helps prevent malaria by spraying the walls of homes with insecticide. This program has protected over 54 million people from malaria.

More than 80 percent of nurses and midwives in Uganda are women, many of whom face extraordinary challenges which can prevent them from doing their jobs effectively.

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition As Maria Valenzuela wound down her story, she held up a necklace with the pebbles from all of the low-income communities in Phoenix she serves, telling the spellbound Capitol Hill crowd she has taken those communities and their voices with her to...

Task sharing is a critical mechanism helping Tanzania achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets of getting 90% of all of people living with HIV aware of their status, 90% of those diagnosed on sustained antiretroviral treatment, and 90% of those on treatment maintaining durable viral suppression by 2020.

Benin is preparing to introduce Sayana® Press, a new contraceptive delivery system that will expand the available method mix.

By: Hunter Isgrig, FHI 360 This blog was originally posted on FHI 360's blog, Degrees. The World Health Organization estimates that the current shortage of global health care workers is 7.2 million. Without intervention, this number will soar to 18 million by 2030. Rachel Deussom, an FHI 360 expert...

World Health Worker Week is an opportunity to mobilize communities, partners, and policy makers in support of health workers in your community and around the world. It is a time to celebrate the amazing work that they do and it is a time to raise awareness to the challenges they face every day...

by Nicole Brown, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Today we mark World Social Work Day to increase attention and political will for greater planning, development and support to the social service workforce. Celebrated the second Tuesday in March annually since 1983, World Social Work Day...