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News & commentary about the global health workforce

Community Health Workers Make a Difference for Pediatric HIV Clients in South Sudan

Lawrence Monday links health facilities and communities to extend HIV care and treatment services.

Open Source App Takes on Ebola and Mental Health in Liberia

Remix, reuse, redesign. Why a technology birthed during the Ebola outbreak is now collecting data on mental health needs.

More Than a Library: A Portal for the Supply Chain Learning Community

We're building something different for the health supply chain workforce in East Africa.

Cervical Cancer Screening Uncovers a Great Need in Kenya

Screening is crucial, particularly for women who live with HIV.

Youth Advocates Can Increase the Use of Modern Contraceptives, If We Listen to Them

If you want to harness the power of youth for family planning programs, you have to engage and listen to them.

Move Over, Unmet Need—There’s a New Family Planning Indicator in Town

Measuring “unmet need” has helped countries make great progress in family planning. But is there something better?

10 Global Health Issues to Follow in 2016

From air pollution to Zika virus, these diseases, threats, and trends are likely to shape the global health agenda in 2016.

Health Supply Chain Capacity Development: A Must for the Sustainable Development Goals and Health Equity

Supply chains are the “arteries” of health care, delivering life-saving medicines to the clients who need them. But they don't run themselves.

Seven Tactics that Are Leading Francophone West Africa toward a Contraceptive Revolution

For decades, family planning indicators in francophone West Africa wouldn’t budge. Here’s how the Ouagadougou Partnership is moving the needle on family planning.

As Ebola Transmissions End in Guinea, What about the Heroes Left Behind?

The WHO announced today that Ebola transmissions have ended in Guinea. Now a new kind of hard work begins.