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All Teach, All Learn: Virtual Clinical Mentorship to Improve HIV Care in Uganda

All Teach, All Learn: Virtual Clinical Mentorship to Improve HIV Care in Uganda

The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent strain on public health resources has disrupted traditional classroom-based learning and instruction typically offered to health workers. While virtual learning has proven to be an effective adaptation to COVID-19-related learning disruptions, it has yet to be formally…

Partnership in the Philippines Helps Small Municipality Integrate Community-Based Drug Rehabilitation into Health Services

Partnership in the Philippines Helps Small Municipality Integrate Community-Based Drug Rehabilitation into Health Services

“As a doctor, I have a more acute sense of the health needs of my constituents,” said Ofelia Alcantara, the mayor of Tolosa, a municipality with more than 20,000 residents in the central region of the Philippines. “I believe that a healthy…

Working Together for Better Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Jordan

Working Together for Better Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Jordan

The USAID Health Services Quality Accelerator Activity in Jordan kicked off its five years of work by conducting a two-day workshop in November 2021 with stakeholders from the government, public and private sectors, and non-governmental organizations to establish priorities for the Activity’s…

Health Facility Readiness and Midwives’ Knowledge Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in East Central Uganda

Health Facility Readiness and Midwives’ Knowledge Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in East Central Uganda

Jalia Nassolo, 32 – a resident of Kiyunga in the Luuka District of Uganda – had a complicated pre-term birth delivery. At 37 weeks of pregnancy, Jalia started to experience labor pains, which quickly increased in frequency and severity. Concerned, she sought…