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By James Litch, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) Every year, 15 million babies are born preterm, and of those, more than 1 million don’t survive their first month of life. Additionally, nearly 3 million babies are stillborn every year. While we hope that increased...

By Kait Atkins, Jhpiego This week, thousands of health workers, researchers and advocates gather in Melbourne, Australia, for the 20 th International AIDS Conference. Tragically, we lost several of these dedicated professionals aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. Their loss is felt and mourned...

By Susan W. Hayes, ReSurge International The following is a Q&A between Susan W. Hayes of ReSurge International and Drs. Shafquat Khundkar and Nancy Chee, recipients of 2014 The REAL Awards , a set of awards designed to celebrate and accelerate the lifesaving work of frontline health workers...

By Carolyn Miles, Save the Children NOTE: This blog was originally published in HuffPost Impact. Fifteen years have passed since a husband and wife team in western India challenged the notion that the deaths of thousands of mothers and millions of babies during pregnancy and childbirth are...

By Sarah Dwyer and Carol Bales, IntraHealth International A young boy—we’ll call him Mani—was living on the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He had no one to look after him, nowhere to go. He was just nine years old. Mani’s situation is not unique. One quarter of...

By Julia Nakad, Hesperian Health Guides Dr. Aruna Uprety is a physician, women’s health activist and journalist in Nepal who knows that improving women’s healthcare takes a combination hard work, determination, and inspiration. She has been involved with a number of women’s health campaigns in Nepal...

By Brigid McConville, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Earlier this month, hundreds of White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) members from around the world were in Prague for the 30 th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives. The congress provided an opportunity for midwives...

By Dr. Keith Baleeta, Julian Natukunda, University Research Co./ USAID SUSTAIN Project and Irene Biraro-Seguya, Initiatives Inc. A core challenge to fighting HIV in Uganda, as elsewhere in the developing world, is the diligence of overburdened frontline healthcare workers in getting people to test...

By Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Family Care International (FCI) This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post In 1998, Fatimata Kané was still a practicing midwife, visiting a local village when she met Kadija.* Kadija was pregnant and nearing the end of her third trimester. Fatimata could...

This post originally appeared on the CapacityPlus blog . By Ángela Diaz Fermin, IntraHealth and Alex Collins, IntraHealth Health clinic in the Dominican Republic. Courtesy CapacityPlus. “It was very, very bad treatment that I received,” recalls Mercedes (not her real name), a young mother living...