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... DC), brings together leading scientists, public health experts, policy-makers, and the HIV-affected community to translate recent scientific advances into action. A trained, ...

News - Carol Bales - July 2012 - 0 comments

... 150,000 orphans. The needs of OVC extend beyond health services to include mental health care, schooling, food and nutrition, ... protection from abuse and exploitation. The clinician or community health worker is usually ill-prepared to arrange and integrate the ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - June 2013 - 0 comments

... Flavia Bustreo, assistant director-general of family and community health at the World Health Organization. Bustreo’s declaration came on the ...

Blog - david - July 2011 - 0 comments

Serving Health Workers, Saving Lives: Introducing Capacity Plus ... Our website reflects our values of openness, community, and knowledge-sharing. We hope you’ll contribute to this exchange. ...

News - jeremy - June 2010 - 0 comments

... International, Senior Team Lead, Gender Equality and Health Constance Newman creates practical tools and methodologies to help ... MSW, University of Maryland, School of Social Work and Community Planning MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of ...

Page - Sarah Dwyer - April 2013 - 0 comments

Why do we publish health research? If the editors of PLoS Medicine are correct that “ ... users seek information on issues such as preventing health worker migration from high-need areas or providing HIV treatment in a rural ... venues such as Health Information for All 2015 community, as well as other websites and social media outlets to share their ...

Blog - jennifer - April 2011 - 0 comments

... between HIV-affected individuals and life-saving health and social services. As a Peace Corps volunteer working in Northern ... promotes prevention of mother-to-child transmission in her community.  She also travels over bumpy roads to the border town of ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - August 2012 - 0 comments

Much literature has celebrated the recent World Health Organization report that maternal mortality declined by a third in the ... downward trend is remarkable, the global public health community is concerned that the declaration will shift attention away from ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - October 2010 - 0 comments

Global health workforce challenges have deservedly received much attention in recent ... workers, employed by the Ministry of Gender, Child, and Community Development, do not possess the minimum education requirements of ... degree-level education is required to qualify as a social worker in Malawi, the majority of frontline social workers only possess a ...

Blog - Carol Bales - March 2012 - 0 comments

On June 8, the International Journal for Equity in Health published “ Occupational segregation, gender essentialism and male ... in which men might be recruited into the workforce for community- and home-based care. In sub-Saharan Africa, 90% of HIV/AIDS ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - June 2011 - 0 comments