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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...

By Aanjalie Collure, IntraHealth International Last week, diverse organizations came together to honor the heroic and lifesaving work of frontline health workers in their communities and beyond, and advocate for health workforce strengthening to be a central priority in the global health agenda...

By Andrew Schroeder, Direct Relief [This blog was originally appeared on the Direct Relief site.] Celebrating World Health Worker Week (April 5 -11, 2015), a new story map from Esri, The Earth Institute at Columbia, and Direct Relief, aims to raise support and awareness for the life changing...

By Annie Geraghty, Accenture Development Partnerships George Ngamia has been selected by his clan as a C ommunity Health Worker (CHW) in Kenya’s Samburu District. The Samburu lead a semi-nomadic lifestyle in a remote area of northern Kenya with little to no access to the formal healthcare system...

This article originally appeared on the Family Care International Blog, available here: http://familycareintl.org/blog/2015/03/04/budget-calendar/ By Kathleen Schaffer, Family Care International A dilapidated clinic, falling tiles, a never-ending leak. Barren and disorganized medicine shelves. An...

By Aanjalie Collure, IntraHealth International Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images Today, March 8, when the global community comes together for International Women’s Day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world, we recognize women’s central contribution to the global...

This article originally appeared in the Center for Global Health Policy's Science Speaks blog, available here. Photo from FHWC Congressional Briefing on "Building the Health Workforce We Need to Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation." From left to right: Dr. Kate Tulenko (Vice President, Health Systems...