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Advocacy and Storytelling: A Bridge and Guide toward Women's Health and Rights

  • Alanna Savage
April 21, 2016
[Youth in Mali, with support from Family Care International, performed plays to tell the stories of persons living with HIV/AIDS.] {Photo by Catherine Lalonde/MSH}

“In 509 days, my country will go to the ballot box, and I will be running for office in Kenya,” announced Stephanie Musho, a law student and staffer at a global health non-profit. Musho made this bold statement while speaking on a panel of young African women leaders during the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in March.

Ending a Global Epidemic: Tuberculosis in Children

  • Rudi Thétard
  • Catherine Lijinsky
March 23, 2016
 MSH Ethiopia}

When my daughter got sick, I took her to a clinic in my neighborhood. They gave her cough syrup for seven days. I thought she was getting better, but it was apparent that she was still ill. After another examination, they referred her to St. Paul Hospital in Addis Ababa where they put her on oxygen and started taking blood sample after sample and injection after injection for a month. Her condition did not get better so they gave her another medicine. The doctors then decided to take blood from her back… only then did they know it was tuberculosis.

Addressing Childhood Tuberculosis through Maternal and Child Survival Platforms

  • Rudi Thétard
December 08, 2015
[USAID's ASH Project, led by MSH, brings together global and African regional partners for a new video on addressing childhood TB.]

Tuberculosis (TB) is now the leading infectious cause of death worldwide -- ahead of HIV. While major advances in the diagnosis and treatment of TB have been made since 1990, children suffering from this disease have remained neglected and vulnerable. An estimated 1 million children become ill with TB each year, and at least 200 children die each day from TB around the world.

A Corridor of Contrasts: Urban Health in West Africa

  • Mary Burket
May 27, 2015
 Pinky Patel}

This week, African Strategies for Health (ASH)—a USAID-funded, MSH-led project that identifies public health best practices in sub-Saharan Africa and advocates for their adoption—has been attending the International Conference on Urban Health from May 24 through 27 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At the conference, ASH has been sharing A Corridor of Contrasts, a report compiling photographs and stories of the people living along the West African Abidjan to Lagos transport corridor, which crosses Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.

Making Mobile Health Case Studies Searchable: Launching the mHealth Database

  • Rebecca Levine
April 29, 2015
[African Strategies for Health (ASH) launches the mHealth database (screenshot, April 20, 2015).]

It’s nearly impossible to find someone who doesn’t own or have access to a mobile phone these days. According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2014 estimates, there are nearly seven billion mobile sub­scriptions worldwide, five billion of which are in low- and middle-income countries. With mobile technologies accessible to 95.5 percent of the world population, a new platform for promoting and delivering health services has emerged. 

3 Ways to Reach the 3 Million: World TB Day 2015

  • Pedro Suarez, MD
March 24, 2015
 MSH staff/Afghanistan}

“I started feeling this coughing… so I went to the health center and got tested. It was positive for TB,” says Grace*, a young Ugandan woman. She started on medicines, but after two months, she stopped adhering to treatment. They told me to continue with the drugs for five more months, but I stopped.

African Evaluation Journal: Call for Articles, Peer Reviewers on Health

  • Gayle Mendoza
February 13, 2015
 Todd Shapera}

The African Evaluation Journal (AEJ), the official journal for the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), is calling for articles and peer reviewers for the special AEJ edition “Health Evaluations in Africa.” This process presents an exciting opportunity to participate in Africa’s contribution to the internationally-declared 2015 Year of Evaluation. 

Choice: A Conversation with Dr. Fabio Castaño (Part One)

September 19, 2014
 Warren Zelman.}

MSH spoke with Fabio Castaño, MD, MPH, global technical lead of family planning and reproductive health about MSH’s approach to family planning and what will define the future of family planning and global health. Below is part one of the conversation.  What is MSH’s approach to family planning and reproductive health? Dr. Fabio Castaño.Fabio:


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