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…
URC’s Center for Human Services has offered English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in Cumberland County, New Jersey and surrounding areas for more than 28 years. Adult participants in the ESL/Civics program are individuals with family and work obligations intent on…
A new and innovative, URC-developed sentinel online system supports scalable monitoring and evaluation interventions. Despite impressive economic growth in recent years, Indonesia continues to suffer from conspicuously high rates of child stunting, and wasting, and or severe wasting. The country is committed to…
The partnership will offer primary and secondary education for Spanish-speaking adults in New Jersey. Under a new program offered by the Center for Human Services (CHS) and the Mexican Consulate of Philadelphia, Spanish-speaking adults will have an opportunity to complete their primary…
URC is a proud signatory of the Guiding Principles on Preventing Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse by International Development Companies, prepared by the Coalition of International Development Companies (CIDC) of the Professional Services Council (PSC). PSC is a membership organization of nearly 400 companies…
The ASSIST Project is working on a few initiatives, including implementing new maternal and child care standards. Although significantly more women receive skilled health care during childbirth now than in past decades, the rate of maternal and newborn deaths remains unacceptably high, according…
Two projects led by URC in Ghana and Benin have helped identify and implement best practices to ensure that outbreaks of Ebola – and other infectious diseases – are prevented and contained. The Ebola outbreak from 2014-2016 was so deadly – the disease…
The project will be the newest in URC’s 16-country portfolio of tuberculosis work, but it also will involve governance, digital technologies, social and behavior change, and more USAID has awarded URC the five-year TB Platforms for Sustainable Detection, Care, and Treatment project…
