The Philippines is one of 30 countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB), with a national incidence rate of 554 cases per 100,000 people. Approximately 1 million Filipinos have TB and may or may not know they have the disease. Those with TB-suggestive…
Worldwide, only an estimated 10 percent of children with disabilities are enrolled in schools, with only half this number finishing primary school. Like all students, young people with disabilities require literacy skills to break out of the poverty cycle, access health services, and gain…
Family members have asked Ana Valeria Mayén Lainez, M.D., a neonatologist from El Salvador, about the worst thing she’s seen in her work. She didn’t used to have an answer. But Mayén Lainez, as a Technical Advisor to the USAID-funded, URC-led ASSIST Project in…
“Since I became a volunteer and joined the mother’s support group, I have learned a lot,” said Anita Busheal, a mother and community health volunteer. “I have learned how to take care of children so that they don’t get sick. I am…
Tisna Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Ph.D., URC’s Chief Science Officer and Senior Vice President for International Development, will retire in September after a 30-year career at URC. Recently, Tisna took time to offer some thoughts and insights on her vast experience in providing…
Eighteen years ago, I saw a mother die. I’ll never forget her last words, which she said with tears streaming down her cheeks: “Is my baby OK?” At the time, I led the postpartum department in a district hospital in Punjab, a…
Kesaobaka Dikgole is a senior quality improvement advisor with HRH2030 in Botswana while also serving as a country representative for the University Research Co. (URC). She oversees the technical team to design, test, and evaluate care innovations to improve patient-centered HIV care…
More than 1.4 million people in Uganda – approximately 6.5 percent of the country’s population – are HIV positive. Uganda is working to reduce this rate with international assistance, but many personal and cultural barriers stand in the way of Ugandans from…
Samson Kironde, Ph.D., URC’s Director of PEPFAR/Global Fund Activities on the HRH2030 Project, will appear on a satellite panel and give two poster presentations at the 22nd International HIV and AIDS Conference in Amsterdam from July 23-27. Kironde will be part of…
The Global Digital Library – launched in April and supported by URC – plans to have reading materials available in at least 100 languages in digital and print formats by the end of 2020. More than half of primary school age children…