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By Sule Kuein, GSK PULSE Volunteer with the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign Ghana Community health workers (CHWs) on the frontlines of care are, without a doubt, one of the most essential building blocks in improving access to essential health services in developing countries...

By Narcisse Naia Embeke, Management Sciences for Health Credit: Warren Zelman. I grew up in a village in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and although I’m now a doctor and live in Kinshasa, I remember those days well. I know what it’s like to live 23 kilometers from the nearest...

International Medical Corps and The Frontline Health Workers Coalition Present A Congressional Briefing on: THE GLOBAL FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKFORCE NEEDED TO SAVE LIVES & RESPOND TO FUTURE THREATS Frontline health workers responding to the Ebola epidemic have rightly received high praise for their...

Written by Amanda Makulec and Tariq Azim, JSI To understand where, when, and what health services are provided within a health system, quality data must be available. In a country as large as Ethiopia—with 94 million people—developing and implementing systems for capturing quality data can be a...

By Dr. Leslie Mancuso, President and CEO, Jhpiego Photo by MNCH Services Project Pakistan Initiation of family planning immediately after birth is both efficient for health systems and easier for women since few women in low-resource settings are able to return to a facility for further care. Every...

By Scott Weathers, IntraHealth International and Frontline Health Workers Coalition Reps. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.) introduced H. Res. 419, “Recognizing the Importance of Frontline Health Workers” today in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to the WHO, as of 2015, at...

By Carolyn Moore, mPowering Frontline Health Workers For most people in developing countries, frontline health workers are the first and often only source of essential health services. Our partners and colleagues in the Frontline Health Workers Coalition support health workers through advocacy...

By Jenna Montgomery, International Medical Corps Doa’a conducting a water, sanitation and hygiene distribution in Aden, Yemen. Doa’a is a health program officer in Yemen working for International Medical Corps. Since last spring her reports have appeared on our website providing a rare view from...

By Rebeccah Bartlett, UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellow, IntraHealth International When I volunteered in a maternity ward in the Philippines in September 2013, I had about 18 months’ experience under my belt as a midwife and a couple more as nurse. I had done similar work in Papua New Guinea and was...

By Lilia Carasciuc, White Ribbon Alliance In Western Tanzania, Elvina Makongolo is the only midwife on staff at the Mtowisa Health Centre’s maternity ward. She works around the clock to give pregnant women the care they need. She knows all too well the risks these women face in giving birth so far...