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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...

This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post Impact Blog. By Jeffrey Sachs, Earth Institute at Columbia University This post is co-authored with Sonia Sachs on behalf of the 1 Million CHW Campaign. Public health officials and practitioners from around Africa and from international public and...

By Toyin Ojora-Saraki, Founder/President, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa [This blog originally appeared from the Huffington Post Global Motherhood Blog] Celebrated on May 5th each year, the International Day of the Midwife recognises the invaluable role of midwives in health. As the Global Goodwill...

By Aanjalie Collure , IntraHealth International Photo from ILO Report: Global Evidence on Inequalities in Rural Health Protection (2015) On April 27, a new report released by the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) made a distressing finding: without adequate numbers of health...