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Vice-Mayor Gian Sotto talks about the importance of strong families at a school in Quezon City. Photo credit: Quezon City Government
February 01, 2021
Family Support Crucial in Community-based Drug Rehabilitation, Philippines

“The war on drugs is not in the streets – it is in our homes.” So says Gian Carlo Sotto, Vice-Mayor of Quezon City, the Philippines’ most populous city. In his view, family plays a critical role in the fight against illegal drugs. The influence of family on persons who use drugs (PWUDS), he says...

The TASO team data officer and counselor visiting the triplets at Amani Children’s Home
January 19, 2021
Triplets Born to HIV-Positive Mother Test Negative

Christine, a 39-year-old subsistence farmer living in Nkombe Village, Mawoota Parish, East Central Uganda, is HIV positive. But her triplets – Nathan, Hudson, and Christopher – are HIV-negative. As an HIV-positive client, Christine belongs to the Bukatube Community Drug Distribution Point (CDDP...

Using COVID-19 precautions, the USAID Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao for Health (BARMMHealth) Project in the Philippines hosted a roundtable discussion in Cotabato City in July 2020 with gender and development coordinators.
January 11, 2021
Opinion: US Development Organizations Must Collaborate on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing the world out of business as usual. This includes U.S. development organizations, which will play a key role in getting coronavirus vaccines to many of the 5 billion people in low- and middle-income countries.

Blood samples are taken from patients at a government health facility in Busia district in East Central Uganda
January 11, 2021
Improving HIV Viral Load Coverage in East Central Uganda

Wilbur, a 38-year-old husband and father of six children in Makada Village, received an unexpected phone call one day. A health worker at the Buyinja Health Center IV said Wilbur – who has HIV – was due to have a viral load (VL) test at the center the next day. Wilbur wasn’t feeling well, so he...

Teen Club member Skhumbuzo
December 14, 2020
Teen Club Makes a Difference for HIV-Positive Youth, Eswatini

This story is told by a 15-year-old male Kudvumisa Teen Club member. URC’s Strengthening Local Capacity to Deliver Sustainable Quality-Assured Universal Coverage of Clinical HIV/TB Services in Lubombo Region Project provided technical assistance and ongoing mentoring to facilities to establish...

Ma Zar Zar Mon, an integrated community malaria volunteer from Me-Wa-Khi Village, Minletpan Rural Health Center, Myawaddy Township, Myanmar. Photo credit: Defeat Malaria Activity
December 07, 2020
Village Malaria Workers Bring Myanmar Closer to Malaria Elimination

The USAID/PMI-funded Defeat Malaria Activity, which began in 2016, is supporting malaria elimination efforts by Myanmar’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and Ministry of Health and Sports. The goal? Eliminating malaria in all families, in all villages, in all townships in the country.

Dr. Rogers Twesigye (right), supports midwives with capturing data on malaria in pregnancy using intermittent presumptive treatment at Namwendwa Health Centre IV in Kamuli District, Uganda.
November 23, 2020
Meet the Experts: Dr. Rogers Twesigye, Technical Advisor, Malaria, RHITES-EC

Dr. Rogers Twesigye is responsible for leading the coordination and implementation of the malaria component of the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services (RHITES-EC) activity – implemented by URC – and for coordinating with the National Malaria Control Program in Uganda.

Ranjith De Alwis (middle), Deputy Chief of Party for CMEP and Krung Siv (right), Phnom Kravnah Operational District Team Leader, talk to Rith Sarath (left), farmer and forest goer about his positive test for malaria. Photo credit: Chandara Um, URC
November 20, 2020
Cambodia Nears Historic Goal of Ending Malaria

In 2018, after years of steadily declining malaria-related deaths, Cambodia reported zero such deaths for the first time. The country is on track to eliminate malaria entirely by 2025. These results are not a coincidence, but the result of years of efforts by malaria programs funded by USAID,...

Baby Innocent Rubagakene
November 09, 2020
Born Too Soon: Reducing Perinatal Mortality in Northern Uganda

To improve newborn quality of care and survival, the RHITES-N, Acholi Activity is scaling up newborn care units at six hospitals, the Kitgum General Hospital, and Level IV HCs. RHITES-N, Acholi also has helped plan kangaroo care spaces at more than 40 Level III HCs in the subregion.

Screening and assessment of PWUDs in Malabon City take place behind protective barriers. Photo credit: Shooting Mafia
November 02, 2020
Local Governments Leading the Way to Reduce Drug Dependence in the Philippines

USAID RenewHealth works to help persons who use drugs (PWUDs), people in recovery, and their families to access informal care, self-help, or community-based rehabilitation. In Malabon City, one of the supported sites of the USAID RenewHealth, the project is building on early efforts to reduce...

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