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By Todd Cohen
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--In July 2003, when it spun off from the School of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, IntraHealth International operated with roughly 60 employees and an annual budget of about $13 million.
Today, as it prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary in April, the nonprofit operates with roughly 650 employees and an annual budget of about $85.5 million.
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The USAID-funded Twubakane Health and Decentralization Program, a five-year, IntraHealth-led project, celebrated its successes on December 18 in Kigali, Rwanda. Twubakane was instituted to improve Rwandan’s access to high quality family planning, reproductive health, child survival, malaria, and nutrition services through a decentralizing health care system.
The Duke Global Health Institute is pleased to announce the creation of a Board of Advisors comprised of leaders in global health, business and philanthropy. (Original news article)
Malaria is the most common life-threatening infection in the world and is responsible for over a million deaths a year. However, the WHO’s World Malaria Report 2009 found that an increase in international funding has produced a dramatic rise in efforts to control malaria—and measurable reductions in the disease—in several countries. The full report can be read here.