Last month, Uganda’s Ministry of Health and IntraHealth International honored several outstanding health workers for their leadership and exemplary service. Each of the awardees serves on the front lines of Uganda’s health workforce and has made great contributions to improving service delivery in the country’s health sector.

A rooftop celebration on February 19, 2013, marked the official opening of IntraHealth International’s new office in the 9-West Building in Nairobi, Kenya. The new space brings Nairobi-based staff together in one location and marks an investment in expanding the leadership and partnering capabilities of our Kenya team.

This summer, IntraHealth International’s FUNZOKenya project and our partners in the Clinton Global Initiative will begin rolling out new computer-based training designed to help Kenya’s pharmaceutical technologists and technicians manage their resources, supplies, and facilities both efficiently and effectively.

February 19, 2013, Chapel Hill, NC—IntraHealth International (www.intrahealth.org)  announces the SwitchPoint Reader, a human-curated web-based feed reader designed to help innovators, humanitarians and others find inspiring people, organizations and ideas from across the social web. Created with a responsive design, the SwitchPoint Reader works on any device—desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. It’s free and can be accessed at www.switchpointideas.com.

IntraHealth International announces the second annual SwitchPoint conference, retreat, and concert to be held April 19 and 20, 2013, at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, North Carolina. We are also pleased to release the SwitchPoint Reader, IntraHealth’s new web-based tool for the SwitchPoint community.

French and Malian flags are flying throughout the capital city of Bamako today after French troops helped to liberate northern Mali from the radical Islamists who have occupied the region for almost a year. On Sunday, January 27, French and African troops took back the city of Gao, where jihadists used the Gao School of Nursing—once a thriving educational institution—as a base of operations.