In the east of Ghana, just six degrees north of the equator, lies Lake Volta, the world’s largest man-made lake. The lake, formed with the construction of the Akosombo Dam and the damming of the Volta River in 1961, produces hydroelectric power…
Uganda’s use of quality improvement (QI) approaches to maximize health outcomes began in 1994 when the Ministry of Health (MOH) established a quality assurance program to support health service delivery and strengthen health services management at the central and regional referral hospital…
Esther, age 32, had never imagined that someone who is HIV-positive could give birth to an HIV-negative child. She learned this during her first antenatal care visit at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (JRRH) in Uganda when expecting her first child in 2012….
Global HIV/AIDS statistics showing a decline in HIV/AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections give hope that an HIV-free generation is in sight. New technology and biomedical research have resulted in better HIV prevention and treatment options. Despite these advances, adolescent girls and…
At 31 years old, Yadira Gómez, is attending primary school and aspires to study a master’s degree in health to specialize in HIV prevention and treatment. Shunned from childhood by her family and society in Nicaragua because she assumed a gender identity…
On November 14, The Project, in collaboration with the Albanian Supreme Audit Institution, the High Inspectorate for the Declaration and Audit of Assets and Conflicts of Interest, and the Office of the Ombudsperson, organized the second Inter-Institutional Round Table on Strengthening Institutional…
The Zika virus can have devastating effects on the exposed child during pregnancy, including microcephaly, a birth defect in which babies are born with an unusually small head and other brain and eye anomalies. Developmental problems – ranging from learning difficulties to…
URC recently unveiled its new Exposure channel with a photo story about the Systems for Health Project’s community health work in Ghana. Systems for Health – funded by USAID and implemented by URC – is supporting the Ghana Health Service’s efforts at the community…
Prisons are settings with high risks of disease. They present a complex and difficult challenge for public health, especially in tackling communicable diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). The high prevalence and incidence of TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in prisons is due…
A URC-led project helped launch a dialogue to educate Ugandan political leaders on how to end tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda. The Uganda MOH and the National TB and Leprosy Program – in collaboration with the USAID Defeat TB Project, led by URC –…