HAITI:  Skills Training Helps Birth Attendant Save Mother and Baby 

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RWANDA:  Cellphone-based Community Health Information System Improves Maternal Health

by Candide Tran Ngoc

With help from a community health worker and RapidSMS -- a cellphone-based technology used throughout Rwanda to improve community maternal and child health -- Drocelle gave birth to her fourth child, and, for the first time, delivered at a health center.
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DRC:  Kangaroo Mother Care Saves Lives of Smallest Babies

by Lucie Zikudieka

Born two months premature and weighing less than 3 pounds at birth, Mardochet Ulunga could have become another infant mortality statistic, except for one thing: tiny Mardochet was born in a Congolese health facility where the staff had received training in kangaroo mother care. Read more. 

ETHIOPIA:  A Life Transformed at Fatsie Health Center

by Genaye Eshetu and Bud Crandall

When Abeba, an HIV-positive, soon-to-be mom, is pushed out of her home by her partner and family, her options for supporting her child look dim. Overcome with despair, she boards a bus to Fatsie, where care and support from an MSH-led program transform her life. Read more. 

PERU:  Águida: A Leader Working for Health and Development of Her Community

by Eliana López

Águida Curo Vican, president of the local development committee, leads her community's efforts at improving health: encouraging women to participate in decision-making and men to take an active role in previously-considered "women's issues."  Read more. 

NIGERIA:  PEPFAR Health Professional Fellow Drives Community Service

by Adebisi Arije

Sister Catherine Okpa, a Catholic nun and medical practitioner, applies lessons learned from a PEPFAR training in four different Nigerian communities, implementing several health-development interventions on sanitation; safe birth delivery; immunization; and HIV prevention, testing, and counseling as well as prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. Read more.

BOTSWANA:  Determined Leadership Helps Xhosa Clinic Improve Service Delivery to the Community

by Tinah Molatlhegi and Naume Kupe

Xhosa Clinic, Botswana, has taken many determined steps toward improving the quality of care to the community, thanks to the leadership of Kgakololo James, the nurse-in-charge at the clinic.
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GUYANA:  Leadership Program Strategies Help Home-based Care Team Improve Client Recruitment

by Shameza David

Since 2004, the PEPFAR-funded, USAID-implemented Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention project (GHARP I and II) has trained 235 NGO staff and health workers from seven regions in Guyana using the Leadership Development Program (LDP). Read more. 

KENYA:  Quicker Malaria Diagnosis Leads to Faster, Pin-Pointed Treatment

by Yvonne Otieno

Thanks to a malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kit, a Kenyan mother received her baby's test results in half an hour. Read more.

LESOTHO:  Electronic Pharmaceutical Management Improves ART Service 

By Kekeletso Ntoi

Pharmacy technicians, with the help of an electronic management tool, implementing partners, and donors, are improving antiretroviral therapy (ART) services in Lesotho. Read more.

ETHIOPIA:  Life Line   

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UGANDA: Supervision Tool Improves Hospital Pharmacy Operations

By Julian Natukunda

Medicines management supervisors are receiving training courses to help them carry out regular supportive supervision and on-the-job training in public and private facilities in Uganda.
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