The "health wagon" is yet another initiative in community health outreach under the AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance II Program Eastern (A2E), which is funded by USAID and managed by the John Hopkins-affiliated, non-profit health organization Jhpiego in collaboration with five partners and the government of Kenya.
Manya Andrews
What began as food distribution in response to a crisis is today supporting a wide array of development goals. With the needs changing on the ground, the historic Food for Peace program has proven to be an extremely versatile development tool in rural Mozambique.
Kelly Ramundo
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah calls GHI a fundamentally different way of doing business. It is a push to think holistically about how to reach beneficiaries. And, it builds on the foundation of the U.S. Government's HIV/AIDS and malaria programs, which have been deemed successful due in large part to strong coordination across U.S. agencies as well as the experts working in the field.
Chris Bonner
In rural Guatemala, it is not unusual for women to have as many as seven children. Though this is not a new trend, such a large number of children born to poor families today can become a greater burden than in earlier years. This is due to several factors, including food insecurity, which has risen to crisis levels in Guatemala, making it a USAID priority country.
Judith Timyan
The U.S. Government has allotted $1.2 billion in 15 African countries on malaria prevention and treatment. The program puts a special focus on pregnant women and children under age 5—the groups at greatest risk of dying from the disease.
Angela Rucker
USAID and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through IHFI, work in six developing-world countries to enhance energy services in health-care facilities such as those that support the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and in other activities that strengthen health sectors around the world.
Mark Oven
Dr. Margaret Chan joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003, and was appointed to the post of director-general in 2006. In 1994, she was appointed director of health for Hong Kong, where she introduced initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration. In her nine-year tenure, she managed outbreaks of avian influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Dr. Chan joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1978, where her career in public health began. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Staff
USAID along with other U.S. Government health agencies and international health organizations were behind the global program to eliminate smallpox and bring the power of life saving vaccines to millions of the world's poor.
Chris Thomas and Angela Rucker
Bacterial meningitis is a serious infection of the thin lining surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Different types of bacteria can cause the disease. In the 25 countries of the African "meningitis belt," which stretches from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, Group A Neisseria meningitiis is the cause of almost all epidemics.
F. Marc LaForce
They are the invisible architects of the battle against HIV/AIDS, managing global drug supplies from the shadows. See how a smart investment by PEPFAR has led to lower prices and reliable supplies of live-saving medicines.
Jay Heavner
The Kyrgyz State Medical Institute for Retraining and Continuing Education, USAID, and the U.S. NGO Scientific Language and Technology Institute invited Dr. Sadyrbaeva to give her presentation to dozens of sixth-year medical students at a three-day family medicine symposium in Bishkek early last November. An annual event since 2006, the symposium provides information and hands-on training to encourage more medical students to consider a career as a primary care physician.
Taylor Briggs
The Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Service Survey, jointly funded by USAID, the Government of Bangladesh, Australian Aid, and the United Nations Population Fund, recently revealed that maternal deaths in Bangladesh fell from 322 per 100,000 in 2001 to 194 per 100,000 in 2010.
Ryan Cherlin
Through generous funding from the American people via USAID, RACHA works in collaboration with government counterparts, especially the Ministry of Health, and other development partners, to reduce maternal, newborn, and children-under-5 mortality in Cambodia. RACHA's strategy is to improve the lives of individuals in Cambodia by making services for reproductive, newborn and child health, infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS safe, available, accessible, and sustainable.
Theary Chan
Health providers at the clinic receive training to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV through the USAID-funded Call to Action project, implemented by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Today, mother-to-child prevention services, including family-planning support for mothers, antiretroviral prophylaxis, infant nutrition support, and careful follow-up of exposed infants, have become increasingly available in health facilities and communities throughout the country.
Heather Mason and Robert Yule
Within two weeks of her release from a state drug rehabilitation center, Pham Thi Minh landed a health-promotion job and was voted by self-help peers as their leader. In just two years, she has built up a network of more than 1,000 women who support each other to stay safe from disease and help generate income to support their families.
Richard Nyberg
Postpartum bleeding remains a major cause of maternal mortality in transitional and developing countries. Through USAID's Maternal and Infant Health Project, however, postpartum bleeding at the Donetsk Oblast Maternity Hospital has decreased from 3.7 percent in 2003 to 0.85 percent in 2010.
Olha Myrtsalo
