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Healthy Communities, Healthy Families, Healthy Kids
May 1, 2013
Highlights

Communities Mobilize to Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lesotho   


Communities Mobilize to Provide Care to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lesotho The Lesotho Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS receives a small grant to provide psychosocial support and skills training to orphans and vulnerable children and their caregivers. Since 2011, their work has reached more than 8,500 beneficiaries.
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Beyond Fears and Misconceptions: Village Health Teams Help Couples Access Modern Family Planning   


Beyond Fears and Misconceptions: Village Health Teams Help Couples Access Modern Family Planning In many Ugandan communities, village health teams are the first point of contact for health services, including basic information on modern contraception.
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Hundreds of Community Health Workers Trained to Provide TB Services to Residents in Rural Afghanistan   


Hundreds of Community Health Workers Trained to Provide TB Services to Residents in Rural Afghanistan Dewana Qul is one of thousands of TB patients living in rural Afghanistan who now receive TB treatment from community health workers in the privacy of a home.
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Pharmacovigilance Reporting Goes Digital in Kenya 


Pharmacovigilance Reporting Goes Digital in Kenya Kenya becomes the first country in Africa---and in the world---to use a digital reporting tool for pharmacovigilance based on mobile technology.

 

"Mind the GAPPD": Improve Medicines Management for Pneumonia and Diarrhea   


Jane Briggs and Beth Yeager blog on the "GAPPD" -- the first-ever simultaneous effort to protect children from pneumonia and diarrhea that launched in April -- and the imperative to improve pharmaceutical management practices and systems to save children's lives.
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Catching Mosquitoes, not Fish: Returning Bed Nets to their Proper Use in DRC   


Catching Mosquitoes, not Fish: Returning Bed Nets to their Proper Use in DRC
In the village of Kavimvira, Frank Baraka has packed the bounty of the morning fishing trip and folded his nets --- sewn from bed nets.
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Profile

Voice of America Interviews Dr. Stephen Macharia:
On Tuberculosis in South Sudan (Audio)
 


Voice of America Interviews Dr. Stephen Macharia: On Tuberculosis in South Sudan
In this Voice of America broadcast, Dr. Stephen Macharia, discusses the TB epidemic in South Sudan, TB CARE I project achievements, and the way forward for improving funding for TB services and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) control in fragile states, like South Sudan.
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More MSH News

World Malaria Day 2013: Sigue la Lucha-Continue the Fight 


World Malaria Day 2013 Fred Hartman shares an intimate view on how and why we continue the fight against malaria.     

The Economic Case for Investing in TB in Indonesia 


David Collins blogs at the intersection of health and economics: supporting Indonesia's efforts to increase domestic financing of tuberculosis care and control.

Letters in The Lancet: Rallying around Country-Led Efforts for Option B+ 


The Lancet returns the spotlight to Option B+, an innovative strategy for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV which was first developed in Malawi with technical assistance from MSH.

The USAID-funded AIDSTAR-Two project released a new situational overview that provides a detailed analysis of the response to the HIV & AIDS epidemic by associations and support groups of people living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa region.
 
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A Note from Dr. Quick
It's Time to Transform Community Health Systems
With less than 1000 days until the Millennium Development Goals expire, the process for setting post-2015 goals continues to ramp up.

My colleagues, Gloria Sangiwa and Jonathan Jay, reflect on the current state of community health systems in low- and middle-income countries, and consider how the post-2015 agenda could reshape them---perhaps dramatically.


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Belkis Giorgis


On the eve of Women Deliver's 3rd global conference, Belkis Giorgis blogs: "By creating, legitimizing, and empowering women leaders, we empower beneficiaries of the health system, save lives, and improve health outcomes for all."

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