Marthe Bonami proves that determination and passion can go a long way to improving the health of her community in rural Haiti. […]
Haitian Communities Empowered to Address their Own Health Issues
Location: Latin America and the Caribbean
Mobile Health Teams in Haiti Offer an Extensive Menu of Family Planning Methods to Women in Need
Mobile health teams in Haiti are taking a vast array of family planning methods and services to women in remote communities. […]
Report on MCSP Support for the Polio Switch in April 2016
In April 2016, the largest and fastest globally-coordinated project in the history of immunization was carried out in 155 countries and territories. Known as “the switch,” this activity entailed replacing trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), which protects against all three strains of the poliovirus, with the bivalent form (bOPV) which protects against two strains, types […]
Using Community Health Units to Promote Equity and Reach the Most Vulnerable: Unidades Comunitarios in Rural Honduras
To help rural, poverty-stricken populations living in a mountainous area of Honduras overcome geographic and financial barriers to health care, ChildFund set out to bring high-quality, cost-effective interventions to these communities through the establishment of community health units (unidades comunitarios, abbreviated UCOS, in Spanish) in 2009. The UCOS used physical structures that were built using […]
A Healthy Competition: Achieving “Clean Clinic Status” in Haiti
Of all the public health problems we face, why focus on clean clinics? The answers are simple. […]
Investing in Marginalized Populations to Improve Newborn Survival in Latin America & the Caribbean
Despite a significant drop in newborn deaths in the LAC region, tremendous inequities remain. We examine what’s needed to meet the needs of neglected communities still lacking access to high-quality care. […]
Third Annual Regional Meeting of Priority Interventions for Newborn Health in LAC
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Newborn Alliance is pleased to announce a series of regional meetings taking place September 22-26 in Bogota, Colombia. […]
