As part of Swaziland’s efforts to meet the challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Ministry of Health has looked to the IntraHealth International-led Southern Africa Human Capacity Development (SAHCD) Coalition for advice on improving the service delivery of its health care system. The coalition’s efforts recently culminated in plans for a new organizational structure for the ministry that will add 11 senior-level posts and a va

The best-selling nursing journal in the UK, Nursing Standard, published a positive review of the CapacityPlus website (Vol. 24, No. 39, June 2-8, 2010). Led by IntraHealth International, CapacityPlus is the USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Last month,  Adam Ross, the program examiner in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, visited the Kibagabaga Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, on his first visit to Africa since taking over the Global Health and Child Survival portfolio eight months ago,

Last fall IntraHealth International Program Officer Marsha Hamilton visited the Fistula Care Center in Ethiopia and noticed a tattered and confusing poster that the staff was using to diagnose obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is a hole that forms between a woman’s rectum and vagina or between her bladder and vagina as a result of complicated or prolonged childbirth without appropriate obstetric care.

The IntraHealth International-led Capacity Kenya project will honor local health workers next month with the Health Professional of the Year awards, which are designed to promote excellence, strengthen capacity, and recognize professionalism in health care provision.   Nominees—from public, private, and faith-based health facilities nationwide—will be selected by their peers.