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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a sidebar in this year’s annual letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates encourages readers to donate their used mobile phones to IntraHealth International through the Hope Phones campaign.

By recycling used phones, IntraHealth earns funds that we then use to equip frontline health workers with mobile phones and other technology.

IntraHealth International’s new, $20.7 million project to expand HIV counseling and testing services in Zambia is now up and running, after its official launch in Lusaka on November 28, 2012. The HIV Testing and Counseling Project will bring high-quality services to selected urban and rural populations in Zambia.

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Twelve of the women who were forced out of their hospital beds when radical Islamists seized the city of Gao in northern Mali have finally been found and treated, thanks to the reinstatement of the Fistula Care Project in Mali.