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By Jennifer Schlecht, Women’s Refugee Commission In times of crisis, we depend on the most fail-safe of interventions: people helping people. In response to war, civil strife, floods or other disasters, a human health work force on the front lines saves lives. It is for this reason, the Women’s...

By Sara Anderson, ReSurge International When 8-month old-Bishal from rural Nepal fell into the family’s open cooking fire, his mother had to travel more than seven hours to seek emergency care for him at the closest hospital. No one in the village or at the local health post knew what to do – and...

By David Bryden, Stop TB Officer, RESULTS This post originally appeared in the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership Blog For many people, tuberculosis is a dirty word associated with poverty and poor living conditions. And when a patient is contagious, there is a risk to others. All of this can...

Mary Beth Powers, Chair, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Nearly one year ago, Eric Goosby – the United States Global AIDS Ambassador and new Ambassador for Global Health Diplomacy – made a simple yet powerful statement that exemplifies why we founded the Frontline Health Workers Coalition...

By Mary O’Neil, EdD, principal program associate, Human Resources for Health, Management Sciences for Health Evidence of the need to scale up the number of frontline health workers in developing countries abounds throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as described in the recent post in this blog by Avril...

By Kelly Willis, Accordia Global Health Foundation Outbreaks of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Africa’s Great Lakes region have claimed hundreds of lives in the last 20 years, but thanks to the courageous efforts of United States government-supported frontline health workers like Brenda Picho, an...

By: Lisa Bos, World Vision Photo Credit: Abby Metty/World Vision Just a few months after starting to work for World Vision, I was able to make my first trip to see our programs in action. My country of choice was Zambia, for several reasons: it’s an English-speaking country (important when the...

By Joan Holloway, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care As we approach World AIDS Day tomorrow, the inspiration of health workers like Dr. Andrew Ocero comes to my mind. Andrew served as the director of clinical services at the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS Tuberculosis Programme...

By: Carol Bales and Rachel Deussom, IntraHealth International The “son of the community” takes part in a community meeting. The local people call him “the son of the community.” On the verge of tears, he listens as they proudly say, “The dust will fly even if it’s raining, because we will be dancing...

By: Meredith L. Ritchie, White Ribbon Alliance Photo courtesy of the White Ribbon Alliance Uganda Uganda deserves praise! The government recently committed to recruiting more than 1,014 midwives; 1,436 nurses; 758 nursing officers; 223 medical doctors; 283 anesthetists; 1,101 clinical officers; and...