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By Annette C. Sheckler, Management Sciences for Health Ayelew Adinew was working as a pharmacist in a large public hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He looked around and saw that the 100-year old pharmaceutical system was broken. There was no transparent and accountable system for providing the...

By: Tunde Ajidagba, Women Deliver Young Leader, Nigeria In the past 15 years, there has been substantial achievement toward reaching Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, which seek to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Since 1990, the baseline year for the MDGs, child and...

By Aanjalie Collure and Zoe Matza, IntraHealth International Originally from the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative Blog Last week, global leaders convened in New York City to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and several side-events dedicated to facilitating discussion on major...

By Aanjalie Collure, IntraHealth International and Frontline Health Workers Coalition At the Global Health Security Agenda meeting hosted by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and its partners on Sept. 26, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Melvin Korkor, a physician, lecturer and Ebola survivor...

Report by alliance of top US-based organizations urges nations to maximize impact of CHWs by defining core competencies Contact: Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition, vblaser@intrahealth.org or +1 301 787 4131 Cape Town, South Africa, September 29, 2014 – A new report finds that...

By Anne Pfitzer, Jhpiego “If I were to speak to a matrone like me before she goes for training, I would tell her to really pay attention, not to be afraid to ask all the questions she might have and when it comes to practicing [on models first, then clients], to really master the steps. The...

By Julia Bluestone, Jhpiego and Frontline Health Workers Coalition Community health workers are highly visible to the families they serve, walking to houses, delivering basic but essential health information and care to mothers and children. But within established health systems, these health...

By Philip Carroll, Save the Children The Ebola outbreak which started in south eastern Guinea in early 2014, has now spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. Ebola has highlighted the devastating impact that a crisis can have on an already fragile health system and has also highlighted...

By Julia Nakad, Hesperian Health Guides A horrific car accident when she was only 2 caused Lizzie Longshaw of Zimbabwe to have her left arm amputated. As she grew up she realized that she and other women with disabilities in her community were further disadvantaged – they didn’t receive health exams...

By Zoe Matza, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Strengthening the health workforce on the frontlines of care is a must for United States’ global health priorities to be achieved, leadership of the World Health Organization, U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and USAID told a...