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March 01, 2013
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Global Health Impact: Developing Strong Health Leaders Saves Lives [2]

Health Systems Strengthening [3]
Women & Gender [4]
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Integrating the Leadership Development Program into Guyana's national nursing school training (watch video [5]): Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention, phase two (GHARP II), a PEPFAR [6]-funded and USAID [7]-supported project.

Developing Strong Health Leaders Saves Lives [8], the newest edition of MSH's Global Health Impact e-newsletter (subscribe [9]), features:

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March 06, 2013
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WOMEN LEAD: An International Women's Day Message from Uganda [11]

Health Systems Strengthening [3]
Universal Health Coverage [12]
Women & Gender [4]
 Tadeo Atuhura/MSH.} [11]Photo: Tadeo Atuhura/MSH.

For most of my life, women in Uganda---as in most countries---were treated as inferior to men. Girls were less likely to be educated than their brothers, and had little control over the direction of their lives. Many girls grew up being told how to act, eat, and talk; many women were regarded as little more than domestic caregivers. However, in 1986 the ruling government radically changed the dynamics of Ugandan women in global development and their participation in decision-making at all levels of government. This International Women’s Day [13] we, in Uganda, are celebrating this transformation with a theme of “connecting girls, inspiring futures,” and wishing women around the world similar progress and success.

Women Lead: Government

Women in Uganda now hold more leadership positions than ever before—35 percent of the seats in Parliament are now occupied by women, and our Speaker of Parliament and Minister of Health are women. The introduction of universal primary education has allowed more girls to begin their schooling, and affirmative action at the university level has provided more women the opportunity to realize their dreams for fulfilling professional careers.

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March 06, 2013
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WOMEN LEAD: An International Women’s Day Message from Uganda [15]

Health Systems Strengthening [3]
Universal Health Coverage [12]
 Tadeo Atuhura/MSH.} [15]Photo: Tadeo Atuhura/MSH.

For most of my life, women in Uganda---as in most countries---were treated as inferior to men. Girls were less likely to be educated than their brothers, and had little control over the direction of their lives. Many girls grew up being told how to act, eat, and talk; many women were regarded as little more than domestic caregivers. However, in 1986 the ruling government radically changed the dynamics of Ugandan women in global development and their participation in decision-making at all levels of government. This International Women’s Day [13] we, in Uganda, are celebrating this transformation with a theme of “connecting girls, inspiring futures,” and wishing women around the world similar progress and success.

Women Lead: Government

Women in Uganda now hold more leadership positions than ever before—35 percent of the seats in Parliament are now occupied by women, and our Speaker of Parliament and Minister of Health are women. The introduction of universal primary education has allowed more girls to begin their schooling, and affirmative action at the university level has provided more women the opportunity to realize their dreams for fulfilling professional careers.

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March 18, 2013
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Family Matrix Improves TB Case Detection in Rural Ethiopia [17]

  • Abel Helebo [18]
Health Systems Strengthening [3]
Women & Gender [4]
 Abel Helebo/MSH.} [17]Silenat with her three-year-old child, her husband Yirga, and Tadele, a TB focal person at the Keraniyo Health Center.Photo Credit: Abel Helebo/MSH.

Silenat Yihune, a 40-year-old woman, mother, and housewife, lives in a remote region of Huletejuenesie District, Ethiopia, which is approximately 20 kilometers from the closest health facility. For nine months Silenat suffered from a cough, chest pain, fever, and weight loss, but was unable to receive treatment. As is common among Ethiopian families, Silenat was economically dependent upon her husband. He refused to pay for her travel to the distant health facility. Several months later, Silenat’s husband, Yirga, started to show similar symptoms and visited the Keraniyo Health Center, where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB).

Keraniyo Health Center is one of the health facilities in Huletejunesie district supported by the PEPFAR [6]-funded, USAID [7] project, Help Ethiopia Address Low TB Performance (HEAL TB), led by Management Sciences for Health (MSH).

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March 19, 2013
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“Health for All” Campaign Launches in Ethiopia [20]

Universal Health Coverage [12]
 Beth Brundage Murphy for MSH.} [20]Photo credit: Beth Brundage Murphy for MSH.

The Health for All campaign [21] was officially launched in Ethiopia at an event on March 14 in Addis Ababa. Over 100 participants, including partners, government representatives, and contributing artists, attended the colorful ceremony at Harmony Hotel. A children’s band entertained the guests with music, and a community theatre group, Music Mayday, portrayed the importance of health insurance for all.

Hiwot Emishaw, the coordinator of the Health for All campaign, opened the ceremony. “One of the key goals of the global UHC movement is to increase social protection for health coverage by 50 percent, and decrease out of pocket expenditures,” she said.

W/o Roman Tesfay, director general of the Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency (EHIA), gave a detailed presentation on the new initiatives of community-based health insurance and social health insurance in Ethiopia, and called upon stakeholders to support the initiative.

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March 20, 2013
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MSH Commemorating World TB Day [23]

  • Management Sciences for Health [24]
Health Systems Strengthening [3]
 MSH.} [23]Photo credit: MSH.

Sunday, March 24, 2013, is World TB Day [25], and MSH staff and partners are promoting global efforts to stop TB [26] throughout the week.

Here are highlights from some of our activities around the world:

The Afghanistan TB CARE I [27] team is working with the national TB program (NTP) to conduct celebration events at 290 health facilities and communities in 13 USAID [28]-supported provinces. TB messages will be aired through local telephone companies to approximately one million people throughout the nation. TB CARE I is also identifying and publicly rewarding high-performing health workers.

The Bangladesh SIAPS [29] TB team will participate in a national rally on March 24 with all TB partners and stakeholders within the NTP network, as well as in a press conference, workshop, and scientific session.

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March 22, 2013
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We Know How to Stop TB: World TB Day 2013 [31]

  • Pedro Suarez, MD [32]
  • Andre Zagorski [33]
Chronic Diseases [34]
Health Systems Strengthening [3]
 Katy Doyle / MSH.} [31]Photo credit: Katy Doyle / MSH.

Stop TB in my lifetime.

This global call to action---the Stop TB Partnership's theme for March 24, World TB Day 2013 [25]---is as relevant now as it was over a hundred years ago.

Progress toward reducing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) has been impressive in recent years: TB mortality has fallen by 41 percent since 1990.

Yet, TB remains one of the world’s leading causes of death, killing more than 1.4 million people per year, including 70,000 children. In 2011, 600,000 people died of TB in Africa alone---including many people with HIV.

Low detection rates, new strains of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB), high prevalence of HIV/TB co-infection, and risk of TB among diabetes patients---nearly 10 percent of TB cases are linked to diabetes, add to the challenge of TB control, especially among the poor and most vulnerable.

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March 25, 2013
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Ghanaian Prayer Camp Leader Now Promotes Medical Treatment for TB: "Not a Spiritual Disease" [36]

  • Bismarck Owusu Adusei [37]
Health Systems Strengthening [3]
 B. Adusei/MSH.} [36]Photo credit: B. Adusei/MSH.

Tuberculosis (TB) control in Ghana is challenging: detection of TB cases is low, and TB mortality rates high. In many communities, like Lower Manya Krobo District, these challenges are compounded by the popular belief that TB is a spiritual disease. Many Ghanaians who contract TB seek healing in prayer camps and shrines, rather than going to health facilities for testing and treatment. By the time these patients seek medical care, it often is too late to recover and avert death.

Lower Manya Krobo District has over 93,000 residents, and a high incidence of TB (209 cases per 100,000 people in 2011). The district is also home to many of the nation’s mushrooming prayer camps, where local healers provide daily services for ill residents. There are 50 prayer camps in Lower Manya Krobo District---and only 18 health facilities.

Grace Tsawe owns a prayer camp in this district, and she usually sees over 100 patients on her main clinic day.

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March 26, 2013
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New Treatment Centers, Staff Training, and Referral System Strengthen HIV Care in Haiti [39]

  • Colin Gilmartin [40]
Fragile States [41]
Health Systems Strengthening [3]

Marie Madelaine Thomas receives antiretroviral therapy through an SDSH-supported clinic. Since August 2012, SDSH has provided ART to more than 3,665 individuals.

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March 27, 2013
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Streamlining and Collaborating on Diagnostic Financing and Drug Utilization Reviews Decreases Burden of Drug-Resistant TB [43]

  • Emily Delmotte [44]
Health Systems Strengthening [3]
 A. Kwiecien and A. Salakaia / MSH.} [43]Photo credit: A. Kwiecien and A. Salakaia / MSH.

The state of tuberculosis (TB) is in a tug-of-war as current challenges threaten to undo past successes [45]. One of the primary hurdles currently facing TB prevention and cure is the emergence of strains that are resistant to at least two of the most effective medicines (rifampicin and isoniazid).

So-called drug-resistant (DR)-TB arises when patients are unable to complete a full-course of appropriate, high quality anti-TB medicines. As compared with the 6 month treatment regimen for drug-sensitive (DS)-TB, DR-TB requires 18-24 months of treatment with medicines that are less effective, can cause sometimes severe side effects, and can cost up to 300 times more.

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Source URL: https://www.msh.org/blog/archive/201303

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[2] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/01/global-health-impact-developing-strong-health-leaders-saves-lives
[3] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/health-systems-strengthening
[4] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/women-gender
[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUnodiJy-W8&feature=youtu.be
[6] http://www.pepfar.gov/
[7] http://usaid.gov
[8] http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs124/1102482301888/archive/1112515500649.html
[9] http://www.msh.org/news-bureau/newsletter/index.cfm
[10] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/06/women-lead-an-international-womens-day-message-from-uganda#comments
[11] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/06/women-lead-an-international-womens-day-message-from-uganda
[12] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/universal-health-coverage
[13] http://www.unwomen.org/how-we-work/csw/iwd2013/
[14] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/06/women-lead-an-international-women%E2%80%99s-day-message-from-uganda#comments
[15] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/06/women-lead-an-international-women%E2%80%99s-day-message-from-uganda
[16] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/18/family-matrix-improves-tb-case-detection-in-rural-ethiopia#comments
[17] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/18/family-matrix-improves-tb-case-detection-in-rural-ethiopia
[18] https://www.msh.org/users/abel-helebo
[19] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/19/%E2%80%9Chealth-for-all%E2%80%9D-campaign-launches-in-ethiopia#comments
[20] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/19/%E2%80%9Chealth-for-all%E2%80%9D-campaign-launches-in-ethiopia
[21] http://healthforallcampaign.org/
[22] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/20/msh-commemorating-world-tb-day#comments
[23] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/20/msh-commemorating-world-tb-day
[24] https://www.msh.org/users/management-sciences-for-health
[25] http://www.stoptb.org/events/world_tb_day/2013/
[26] http://blog.msh.org/tag/howtostoptb/
[27] http://www.msh.org/global-presence/tb-care-i.cfm
[28] http://www.usaid.gov
[29] http://www.msh.org/global-presence/siaps.cfm
[30] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/22/we-know-how-to-stop-tb-world-tb-day-2013#comments
[31] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/22/we-know-how-to-stop-tb-world-tb-day-2013
[32] https://www.msh.org/users/pedro-suarez-md
[33] https://www.msh.org/users/andre-zagorski
[34] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/chronic-diseases
[35] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/25/ghanaian-prayer-camp-leader-now-promotes-medical-treatment-for-tb-not-a-spiritual#comments
[36] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/25/ghanaian-prayer-camp-leader-now-promotes-medical-treatment-for-tb-not-a-spiritual
[37] https://www.msh.org/users/bismarck-owusu-adusei
[38] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/26/new-treatment-centers-staff-training-and-referral-system-strengthen-hiv-care-in#comments
[39] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/26/new-treatment-centers-staff-training-and-referral-system-strengthen-hiv-care-in
[40] https://www.msh.org/users/colin-gilmartin
[41] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/fragile-states
[42] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/27/streamlining-and-collaborating-on-diagnostic-financing-and-drug-utilization-reviews#comments
[43] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/03/27/streamlining-and-collaborating-on-diagnostic-financing-and-drug-utilization-reviews
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