The Global Health Mini-University (Mini-U) is an annual learning forum for professionals and students highlighting best practices and new innovations in global health. This year, the Mini-U will be held on Monday, March 2, 2015 at George Washington University's Cloyd Heck Marvin Center in Washington, DC.
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Jhpiego recently announced the next installment in a series of webinars expanding upon their webinar introducing the Contraceptive Implants Learning Resource Package (LRP). These webinars will address specific aspects of implants provision and provider training.
Over the next 15 days, the Advancing Partners & Communities Project in Guyana will be doing a series of blogs to highlight different aspects of gender-based violence.
Today, FP2020 released its second annual progress report detailing progress and achievements made in the last year. This year, FP2020’s coordinated, forward-focused efforts have achieved measurable results, including bringing the total number of pledging countries up to 29.
Nakuru County, through the Ministry of Health, has launched a global pilot project of delivering wheelchairs to individuals in need. ACCESS (Accelerating Core Competencies for Effective Wheelchair Services and Support) is supported by the Wold Vision, Motivation and USAID in partnership with Association for Physically Disabled of Kenya (APDK) and the Kenya government.
This online magazine article showcases several instances where SAWSO is meeting needs in Uganda within the Millenium Development Goals.
The theme of the event is the science and practice of people-centred health systems, chosen to enable participants to address current and critical concerns of relevance around the world.
K4Health's new blog post from FHI360's Kirsten Krueger, MSW and John Stanback, PhD, promotes task sharing as a solution to the global health worker crisis and provides practical actions individuals can do to support task sharing in family planning.
EngenderHealth announced their WTFP?! (Where's the Family Planning?!) campaign to raise awareness about the millions of women worldwide who want to plan their families, yet lack access to contraceptives. The campaign is designed to give people the opportunity to use their social networks for good by raising awareness online. Join the cause!
On August 29, 2014, the GBCHA hosted its 7th annual awards ceremony to publicly recognize the unique and vital contributions made towards health and wellness by the business community in Guyana. APC/Guyana was a proud sponsor of the award for community investment and congratulates Scotia Bank on their receipt of the award.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) new guidance provides recommendations concerning the use of hormonal contraceptive methods by women at high risk of HIV and women living with HIV, including women taking antiretroviral therapy (ART).
ChildFund has grown into an international organization that serves 18.1 million people in 30 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe acting on its growing understanding of what works for children and transitioning from running orphanages to helping families and communities fight poverty at its roots.
MCHIP's animated video highlights India's Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) strategy, which promotes links between interventions across the lifecycle and integrates child survival with other important health interventions.
This news article reports that HealthRight International awarded nearly $500,000 from APC to integrate FP activities into Kenya’s program to improve maternal and neonatal health.
Pathfinder International's new tool helps users conduct an assessment of a partner organization’s strengths and weaknesses, helping to identify areas where technical assistance will be needed to successfully implement a project.
This press release calls on President Obama to announce the creation of a high-level, international, multilateral action tank comprised of experts from civil society, U.S. and African governments and the private sector to produce new policy recommendations, and to develop a financing framework by Mothers’ Day 2015.
This news story reports on P4EC’s summer school program, funded by USAID, that included capacity building of ABC members to involve in the monitoring and evaluation of social services for children, facilitated experience exchange between ABC members in their consultation activity of local child care programs, and planned future activities of ABCs.
The Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) releases a comprehensive document to provide a framework for program managers and policy makers in-country on scaling community health worker (CHW) programs.
"Bring the Men and Make it Sexy!" were two of the main findings of a countrywide analysis of the gender related issues that could hamper or accelerate the introduction of and access to an ARV based vaginal gel that has the potential to protect women from HIV.
This event, co-hosted by the government of UK and UNICEF, took place on July 22, 2014 in London to mobilize support for ending female genital mutilation and child marriage.
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