A free new online course highlights ways to incorporate gender equality and women’s empowerment into efforts to strengthen health systems around the world. Gender and Health Systems Strengthening is now available through the Global Health eLearning Center to Foreign Service nationals, US government partners, and US Agency for International Development field-based staff.

Dr. Marilyn DeLuca and Dr. Charles Ok Pannenborg are the two newest members of IntraHealth International’s Board of Directors.

The Quality Assurance Partnership (PAQ) approach, developed and implemented by IntraHealth in Senegal, encourages local communities to identify and find local solutions to issues such as the quality of service delivery, infrastructure, and accessibility at health facilities.

A new 18-month, $20.5 million project will strengthen Kenya’s health systems at the national and county levels, better allowing the country’s health workers to provide consistent, high-quality care to more Kenyans.

At the meeting “Towards a Fistula-Free Generation,” in September, 2013, participants examined the relationship between the work of the Fistula Care project, in which IntraHealth was a partner, toward reducing incidences of obstetric fistula and "The Manifesto for Maternal Health," published in The Lancet in February 2013.

A new $8 million project will expand access to high-quality treatment and prevention services for obstetric fistula in Mali. IntraHealth International’s Capacity Building for Fistula Treatment and Prevention in Mali Project, which launches June 19 in Sikasso, focuses on making fistula repair services routinely available within health facilities and building the capacity of health workers to prevent, diagnose, and treat the condition effectively.