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Saving Lives and Improving Health: 12 Stories from Around the World
February 1, 2013
Dear Colleague:
Hello! This special edition of the Global Health Impact newsletter features a compendium of 12 winning stories from 11 different countries, selected through MSH's internal storytelling contest (available soon in print), and a special post on "Paying for Health and Innovating for Value in Myanmar" from MSH President Dr. Jonathan Quick.
http://blog.msh.org/2013/01/31/paying-for-health-and-innovating-for-value-in-myanmar/?src=1
Together, working toward health for all in 2013!
- MSH
** A note from Dr. Jonathan Quick
It's exciting to begin 2013 by sharing examples of last year's successes in global health. I'm equally excited to share observations from Myanmar, where I spent the first week of the new year.
Paying for Health and Innovating for Value in Myanmar
http://blog.msh.org/2013/01/31/paying-for-health-and-innovating-for-value-in-myanmar
You might expect that Myanmar's first minister of health under civilian rule would be despondent. But on my recent trip I found the opposite: Dr. Pe Thet Khin and his team are aligned around an ambitious vision for building a strong health system for the country...
Read more >>
http://blog.msh.org/2013/01/31/paying-for-health-and-innovating-for-value-in-myanmar
Maternal, newborn, and child health **
HAITI: Skills Training Helps Birth Attendant Save Mother and Baby
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/Skills-Training-Helps-Birth-Attendant-Save-Mother-and-Baby.cfm
by Woodline Gedeon
Mrs. Tilma, a traditional birth attendant, has been delivering babies for years. Additional training on performing safe deliveries, identifying signs of high-risk pregnancies, and referring at-risk pregnant women to health facilities helped her quickly identify the life-threatening symptoms of eclampsia and intervene to help save two lives.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/Skills-Training-Helps-Birth-Attendant-Save-Mother-and-Baby.cfm
RWANDA: Cellphone-based Community Health Information System Improves Maternal Health
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/cell-phone-based-community-health-information-system-improves-maternal-health-in-rwanda.cfm
by Candide Tran Ngoc
With help from a community health worker and RapidSMS -- a cellphone-based technology used throughout Rwanda to improve community maternal and child health -- Drocelle gave birth to her fourth child, and, for the first time, delivered at a health center.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/cell-phone-based-community-health-information-system-improves-maternal-health-in-rwanda.cfm
DRC: Kangaroo Mother Care Saves Lives of Smallest Babies
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/kangaroo-mother-Care-saves-lives-of-smallest-babies.cfm
by Lucie Zikudieka
Born two months premature and weighing less than 3 pounds at birth, Mardochet Ulunga could have become another infant mortality statistic, except for one thing: tiny Mardochet was born in a Congolese health facility where the staff had received training in kangaroo mother care.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/kangaroo-mother-Care-saves-lives-of-smallest-babies.cfm
ETHIOPIA: A Life Transformed at Fatsie Health Center
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/a-life-transformed-at-fatsie-health-center-ethiopia.cfm
by Genaye Eshetu and Bud Crandall
When Abeba, an HIV-positive, soon-to-be mom, is pushed out of her home by her partner and family, her options for supporting her child look dim. Overcome with despair, she boards a bus to Fatsie, where care and support from an MSH-led program transform her life.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/a-life-transformed-at-fatsie-health-center-ethiopia.cfm
** Family planning and reproductive health **
PERU: Águida: A Leader Working for Health and Development of Her Community
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/Aguida-a-leader-working-for-the-health-and-development-of-her-community.cfm
by Eliana López
Águida Curo Vican, president of the local development committee, leads her community's efforts at improving health: encouraging women to participate in decision-making and men to take an active role in previously-considered "women's issues."
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/Aguida-a-leader-working-for-the-health-and-development-of-her-community.cfm
** Leadership and governance on HIV & AIDS **
NIGERIA: PEPFAR Health Professional Fellow Drives Community Service
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/pepfar-health-professional-fellow-drives-community-service-in-nigeria.cfm
by Adebisi Arije
Sister Catherine Okpa, a Catholic nun and medical practitioner, applies lessons learned from a PEPFAR training in four different Nigerian communities, implementing several health-development interventions on sanitation; safe birth delivery; immunization; and HIV prevention, testing, and counseling as well as prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/pepfar-health-professional-fellow-drives-community-service-in-nigeria.cfm
BOTSWANA: Determined Leadership Helps Xhosa Clinic Improve Service Delivery to the Community
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/determined-leadership-helps-xhosa-clinic-improve-service-delivery-to-the-community.cfm
by Tinah Molatlhegi and Naume Kupe
Xhosa Clinic, Botswana, has taken many determined steps toward improving the quality of care to the community, thanks to the leadership of Kgakololo James, the nurse-in-charge at the clinic.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/determined-leadership-helps-xhosa-clinic-improve-service-delivery-to-the-community.cfm
GUYANA: Leadership Program Strategies Help Home-based Care Team Improve Client Recruitment
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/Leadership-Program-Strategies-Help-Home-based-Care-Team-Improve-Client-Recruitment.cfm
by Shameza David
Since 2004, the PEPFAR-funded, USAID-implemented Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention project (GHARP I and II) has trained 235 NGO staff and health workers from seven regions in Guyana using the Leadership Development Program (LDP).
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/Leadership-Program-Strategies-Help-Home-based-Care-Team-Improve-Client-Recruitment.cfm
** Pharmaceutical management **
KENYA: Quicker Malaria Diagnosis Leads to Faster, Pin-Pointed Treatment
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/kenya-quicker-malaria-diagnosis-leads-to-faster-pin-pointed-treatment.cfm
by Yvonne Otieno
Thanks to a malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kit, a Kenyan mother received her baby's test results in half an hour.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/kenya-quicker-malaria-diagnosis-leads-to-faster-pin-pointed-treatment.cfm
LESOTHO: Electronic Pharmaceutical Management Improves ART Service
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/electronic-pharmaceutical-management-improves-ART-service-in-Lesotho.cfm
By Kekeletso Ntoi
Pharmacy technicians, with the help of an electronic management tool, implementing partners, and donors, are improving antiretroviral therapy (ART) services in Lesotho.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/electronic-pharmaceutical-management-improves-ART-service-in-Lesotho.cfm
ETHIOPIA: Life Line
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/ethiopia-life-line.cfm
By Berhan Teklehaimanot
Telephone lines at more than 100 of Ethiopia's largest antiretroviral therapy (ART) pharmacies are helping patients adhere to lifesaving HIV & AIDS treatment.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/ethiopia-life-line.cfm
UGANDA: Supervision Tool Improves Hospital Pharmacy Operations
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/supervision-tool-improves-hospital-pharmacy-operations.cfm
By Julian Natukunda
Medicines management supervisors are receiving training courses to help them carry out regular supportive supervision and on-the-job training in public and private facilities in Uganda.
Read more >>
http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/supervision-tool-improves-hospital-pharmacy-operations.cfm
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