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Empowering Leaders Throughout Mozambique's Health Sector [1]

March 19, 2008

The Mozambican Ministry of Health (MOH) used a new approach to improve service delivery over the past two years—giving workers at all levels of the health sector a chance to offer solutions to issues ranging from budget details to equipment sterilization. Though such issues don't usually inspire an outpouring of enthusiasm or creativity from employees, MOH managers have recently seen just such a response from their staff.Read More

Using New Technology to Improve Services at Senegalese Health Centers [2]

March 19, 2008

Last year women in Senegal's Joal district faced a difficult decision-should they deliver their babies in the comfort of their own homes, but without available medical technology, or should they travel to the local health center to go through labor assisted by trained health workers, but in an unclean and uncomfortable environment? Health workers tried to convince expectant mothers that home births pose a risk to both mothers and newborns; babies delivered at home don't benefit from the early care that health centers are equipped to deliver.

Building Integrated HIV/AIDS Services into Malawi's Health Sector [3]

March 19, 2008
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At the opening of the new Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centre in Ntcheu, Malawi, the country's Minister of Health took the opportunity to encourage Malawians to participate in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic."Why should we be afraid to come to this beautiful centre to check our sero status? HIV/AIDS is not a sin. It is a health problem," said Dr.

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