Health Workers Can Help Stamp Out Poverty
They say wealthier is healthier, and there’s evidence to back that up.
Health Workers Have a Right to Clean Hands
According to the 2010 Kenya Service Provision Assessment survey, only 46% of Kenyan health facilities have running water year-round.
Our Commitment to the Kenyan Health Worker
Many health workers have a dream of offering high-quality services, but no way of doing their work well because they lack basic supplies or training.
Why Does a Woman Use Contraception? For a Better Life.
I consider myself a strong advocate for the wide availability of family planning methods, and of women being able to decide if and when they want to become pregnant.
Getting Health Workers to the Women Who Need Them
Maureen Kanyiginya is a young midwife with a gentle, confident presence. Sitting on a bench in a grassy area outside the rural health center where she works, in western Uganda, she says she loves helping mothers and delivering their babies. "I make mothers comfortable," she states firmly. "I'm a health worker."
An Excerpt from Kate Tulenko in the New York Times: Foreign Health Workers in the US Come with a Cost
In the NY Times, Tulenko discusses the dire economic and social consequences of insourcing and how it threatens the quality of care.
Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad
I saw people out of work in the US and health workers being imported from countries that could ill afford to lose them.
Observing Hope: Pediatric HIV Prevention in Two Health Centers in Ethiopia
In 24 months, 1,919 babies have been delivered in government health centers in these two communities, and only one of them has been found HIV-positive. That’s a pretty good performance, even in a country with a relatively low 1.5% adult HIV prevalence.
