MSH Commits $200 Million to Improve Lives of Thousands of Women and Children in Fragile States by Endorsing UN's Every Woman, Every Child Campaign
MSH announced a five-year, $200 million commitment to improve health systems and family planning services in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Haiti as part of the UN's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. Read More.
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Clinton Global Initiative: MSH Pledges $15 Million to Scale Up Access to Quality Medicines for 70 Million People; Women's Lives to be Improved
 MSH announced a four-year commitment to bring quality essential medicines to 70 million people in rural communities, drawing on the power of accredited private drug shops and trained dispensers -- many whom are women. Read More.
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Developing Afghan Women as Leaders to Improve Maternal Health
Madina, a trained midwife in Afghanistan and a participant in MSH's Leadership Development Program, shares her story of being empowered to address gender and health challenges in her community. Read More.
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Fostering Economic Opportunity for Nigeria's HIV-Positive Women
 Support groups for people living with HIV & AIDS, established by ProACT Nigeria, are forming savings and loan associations that provide income-generating opportunities for participants, most of them women. Read More.
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Engaging Men in Supporting the Health of Their Families in Uganda
Through outreach activities on market days in the Kamwenge district of Uganda, the STRIDES project has begun to engage men in supporting family planning and other health services. Read More.
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Gender Strategies Will Help Achieve Health Impact in South Sudan
The SHTP II project recognized that gender issues were affecting its progress, so it developed a gender strategy that encourages its implementing partners to treat gender as a local stakeholder. Read More.
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Walking the Walk: Integrating Gender Key to Linking Communities to Health Systems
 The International Center for Research on Women and MSH hosted a panel at the InterAction Forum 2011 to discuss integrating gender into health programs based on examples from the field. Read More.
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Mainstreaming Gender: Lessons Learned from the HIV/AIDS Care and Support Program in Ethiopia (HCSP)
HCSP dramatically increased access to health care services through gender-sensitive activities, showing that extensive resources are not necessary for promoting gender equity and maximizing health impact. Read More.
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Moving Toward Gender Equitable Organizations -- Examples from AIDSTAR-Two Project
A Global Health Magazine article examines how the AIDSTAR-Two project builds organizational capacity to address gender issues. Read More.
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Promoting Gender Equality through Community Systems
 ProACT Nigeria uses gender-based approaches to support integrated health services. MSH spoke with Ekundayo Aigbomian, associate director of community HIV services and gender for ProACT, about how the program addresses gender challenges. Read more.
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MSH's President and CEO talks about how gender inequalities undermine the health of women and girls. Read More.
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After many years of civil war and unrest, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) elected its first independent government in 2007. The new government is working to build institutions that meet its peoples' needs, but there is still a high maternal and child mortality rate. MSH has been working with the Ministry of Health in DRC at the district, zonal, and facility level to improve health.
Involving Men Along With Women in Family Planning in DRC
Family planning initiatives often focus solely on women, but the USAID-funded Democratic Republic of Congo-Integrated Health Project (DRC-IHP) has begun an effort that engages men as well as women.
Standardizing Treatment Guidelines for Obstetric Health in DRC
The Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) program has begun an effort to update standard treatment guidelines for preventing and treating complications during pregnancy in the DRC.
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