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Even in Celestina Asante’s earliest memories, her mother had a hot temper. “Over the years, she would flare up, scream and beat me, and then I would usually go to bed crying,” she remembers. Well into adulthood – and becoming a mother of three herself – Asante still believed her...
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The Maternal Child and Survival Program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) works tirelessly to reduce deaths among moms and babies. To learn more, we interviewed Dr. Jimmy Anzolo Mongonda, Provincial Program Team Lead of USAID’s flagship Maternal & Child Survival Program, DRC, at the United Nations Foundation....
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Growing trees make a forest. —Zambian proverb My first experience in international development was as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural village in northern Zambia. During my 2 years as a health volunteer, I saw time and time again projects designed by “experts” in Washington, D.C., that failed in...
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Dynamics between providers and receivers of care in a health care system can have a significant impact on both the quality of care as well as health care outcomes. Near universal health workforce shortages, imbalances in competencies and lack of communication between providers and receivers of care are barriers to...
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LGH ‘s objective is to help train and equip over one million birth attendants to become efficient lifesavers, and to help save over 400,000 more lives per year by 2020. We believe these objectives are fully achievable by supporting our alliance partners and their implementation programs. The following brief video...
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