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Joint World Health Worker Week Statement by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, Global Health Workforce Alliance, Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative Every year on April 7, people from around the world celebrate World Health Day, designed to mark the anniversary of the World Health Organization...

By Sarah Dwyer, IntraHealth International Uganda strengthens health service delivery by focusing on the people who provide quality care Agnes Masagawyi provides integrated HIV and family planning counseling to a client in Mbale, Uganda. Courtesy Carol Bales, CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International....

Press Inquiries contact: Vince Blaser +1 202-407-9444 or vblaser@intrahealth.org WASHINGTON, DC, March 31, 2014 – The 37 member organizations of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition (FHWC) – an alliance working together to urge greater and more strategic U.S. investment in frontline health workers...

WORLD HEALTH WORKER WEEK 2016 April 3-9, 2016 Global Leaders on Why #HealthWorkersCount Gallery: Health Workers Speak WHWWeek Twitter Chat: #WHWWeek #HealthWorkersCount April 4th 1 PM http://worldhealthworkerweek.tumblr.com/ WHAT IS WORLD HEALTH WORKER WEEK? #WHWWeek World Health Worker Week is an...

By Julia Nakad, Hesperian Health Guides High in the Andes, the organization DESEA Peru has relied on images to improve local health outcomes. The group found creative ways to use images as a training resource with community health workers locally known as “qhalis” – from the Quechua expression...

By Mandy Folse, Director, Frontline Health Workers Coalition At 2 p.m. Eastern today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes up the nomination of Dr. Deborah Birx to be the next leader of one of the great successes in United States foreign assistance – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...

By Melissa May, Accordia Global Health Foundation The old adage “it takes a village to raise a child” is never more apt than in the lead-up to and first day in that child’s life, especially in rural and remote locations like Uganda’s Kibaale district. The Saving Mothers, Giving Life program — a...

By Rebecca Kohler, IntraHealth International The health worker of the future—whether it’s a primary care physician, a community health worker, a faculty member, or other frontline health worker—will be living in a whole new paradigm. The challenges and opportunities will be unique. And health...

By Susan W. Hayes, ReSurge International The birth of a child is typically a time of happiness and celebration. But in Nepal a family’s joy turned to horror when during a traditional birth ceremony, 2-month-old Astha fell from her mother’s lap into an open fire. She was scooped from the flames and...

By Zena Herman, Hesperian Health Guides Frontline health workers have proven their value as caregivers for maternal and newborn health, vaccination programs, malaria, and as community educators on nutrition, hygiene and other health issues. As the global disease burden shifts from communicable to...