The Kenya Health Professional of the Year Award, sponsored by the IntraHealth-led Capacity Kenya project, was featured in an article in The Daily Nation on August 17, 2010.

Pat McLaughlin, Director of the Community Prevention of  Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Project in Ethiopia, was quoted in the IRIN Africa article: ETHIOPIA: Tackling the perils of pregnancy.

CapacityPlus’s Wanda Jaskiewicz participated in a technical workshop on improving rural retention of health workers in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Held June 21-25, the workshop was sponsored by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization has invited CapacityPlus to help apply the WHO global retention recommendations in country-specific settings.

From July 26-28, CapacityPlus leaders took part in a coordinators’ meeting in Tokyo to contribute to planning the Global Health Workforce Alliance Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.

Kumar’s work to implement a web enabled KIOSK public grievance management and monitoring system—“LOKVANI”, an e-governance initiative—was recognized in India Today.

The new IntraHealth-UNC Global Health Fellowship was featured in the ASPH Friday Letter.

The IntraHealth International-led Uganda Capacity Program is supporting national implementation of the iHRIS software, Open Source software developed by the Capacity Project and supported by its bilateral associate awards and the global follow-on, CapacityPlus.

Maternal and infant mortality rates in rural Armenia are significantly higher than in the country’s urban centers. Through the NOVA 2 Project, IntraHealth International teams with lead partner RTI International and Save the Children to improve maternal and child health in these areas by introducing evidence-based practices and approaches at maternity hospitals.