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In Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, URC strengthened HIV clinic capacity to test for TB. The graph shows that, in 2015, nearly 100% of all HIV clincs where we implemented this intervention were also testing for TB
November 03, 2016
Detection and treatment of tuberculosis and HIV in Latin America

The CDC-LAC project builds health worker capacity to increase the detection and treatment of tuberculosis and HIV. The project supports cross-testing—of people with tuberculosis in the general population for HIV and of people living with HIV for TB—within the healthcare system’s centers for TB...

Dr. Calnan, URC’s Deputy Director of the USAID TB Care II project, presents her team's findings at the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health
October 31, 2016
URC Swaziland reports Xpert TB diagnostic tool failure in pregnant women

Dr. Calnan, who is URC’s Deputy Director of the USAID TB Care II project in Swaziland, demonstrated WHO’s 4 question screening missed about 85% of TB cases among the study cohort.

October 26, 2016
Providing quality TB care - URC workshop at Union World Lung Health Conference 2016

​URC-CHS staff led its first workshop at the 47 th Union World Conference on Lung Health, on Wednesday, October 26 th .

In South Africa, participants dance at a TB South Africa event
October 25, 2016
URC at the Union World Conference on Lung Health

URC is taking an active role in the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool, UK from October 26th through October 29th, 2016. URC staff are attending from several countries across the globe, leading panel discussions, presenting symposia, and discussing posters.

A graphic of the AEA's Evaluation 2016 poster, with details on session 2061
October 13, 2016
URC’s Diana Chamrad to speak at Evaluation 2016 Conference

Evaluation 2016 panelists Molly Cannon, Senior Technical Advisor, Palladium; Eve Namisango; and Diana Chamrad, Improvement Director, University Research Co., LLC, discuss “ Evaluation of a Beneficiary Identification Tool ” on October 27 in...

US Embassy First Secretary Jeff Bryan and Cote d'Ivoire Minister of Health Raymonde Goudou Coffie celebrate the handover of the national policy for health care and services quality improvement
October 05, 2016
Official healthcare quality improvement policy in Côte d’Ivoire

On October 3, 2016, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in Côte d’Ivoire hosted an official ceremony to adopt a national policy document for improving the quality of health care and services. The event was attended by US Embassy First Secretary Jeff Bryan and USAID Mission Health Office...

Fingers of a blind boy read the braille version of Convention on the Rights of the Child at a blind boys' school, Ramakrishna Mission, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. © 2009 Anil Gulati, Courtesy of Photoshare
October 05, 2016
Good books in narrated audio and hard-copy braille for visually impaired learners in India

Bookshare offers age-appropriate, high-interest books in Marathi in both human-narrated audio and hard-copy braille to students in four schools for the blind in Maharashtra. It is implemented by Beneficent Technologies (Benetech) with funding from All Children Reading (ACR): A Grand Challenge...

Jay Wechsler, URC President, visits field staff in Uganda (2016)
October 01, 2016
Join us in welcoming Jay S. Wechsler, URC's new president

We are pleased to announce the selection of Jay S. Wechsler as the next president of URC and its nonprofit affiliate, Center for Human Services (CHS).

Article co-authors (left to right) Carolyn Hemminger, Ingrid Weiss, and Serena Stepanovic
September 30, 2016
Ingrid Weiss, Serena Stepanovic, and Carolyn Hemminger co-authors of peer-reviewed article on nutrition in Zambia

URC staff Ingrid Weiss, Serena Stepanovic, and Carolyn Hemminger recently published the article, “ Use of a Nutrition Behavior Change Counseling Tool: Lessons from a Rapid Qualitative Assessment in Eastern Zambia ,” in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Public Health.

Graph shows improvement of percentage of vulnerable children linked to services, from less than 10% in November, 2014, to nearly 90% in July, 2015
September 27, 2016
Community-based advocacy helps get critical services to HIV+ children

The introduction of a savings and loan group, combined with a system to identify HIV+ children and link them to care, improves children's access to services in a village in Mukono District, Uganda (2015)

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