community health workers
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Health & Tech Experts Outline 3-Part Strategy to Fight Ebola
Lancet Article Argues Epidemic Could Be Controlled Within 6 Months
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Millennium Promise Team to Join Battle Against Ebola
Locally based community health workers, who bring vital primary health care to underserved populations across sub-Saharan Africa, will join the battle against the deadly Ebola virus through a partnership between the government of Guinea and The Earth Institute.
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Company Donates 330,000 Bed Nets to Help Fight Malaria in Africa
3rd Gift from Sumitomo Chemical for Millennium Villages
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GlaxoSmithKline Supports African Health Workers Campaign
The Earth Institute and its corporate partner, global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline are embarking on a new project to broadly expand the reach of healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa. In collaboration with the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign, the new project will develop an online information dashboard that will help streamline community health worker operations…
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The UN Solutions Network Begins to Chart New Pathways for Sustainable Development
November 29, 2012, NEW YORK – The Leadership Council of the new Sustainable Development Solutions Network gathered at Columbia University to chart new pathways to global sustainable development. The Solutions Network operates under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. More than 70 top scientists, business leaders, politicians and civil society leaders from around the…
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Health Systems Expert Wins Young Leader Award
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, an international health systems expert at the Earth Institute who helped design community health worker systems for the Millennium Villages Project across 10 African countries, has won a $40,000 Young Leader Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Child Mortality Drops Sharply in Millennium Villages
Approximately one in eight children dies before the age of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa – a rate that has been declining, but is still nearly 20 times higher than in developed nations. A new Lancet study out this week suggests that the multiple interventions applied in the Millennium Villages Project are having a significant impact,…
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Increasing Access to Health Care Using a Community-Based Approach
Community Health Workers (CHWs), health assistants or lay health workers who provide a fundamental level of health care for residents in the community in which they live, have been shown to make a tremendous contribution to public health and community development. In Kisumu, Kenya, residents of Manyatta, an informal settlement with nearly 90,000 people that…
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Earth Institute Receives Funds To Scale Up Effort To Reach Millennium Development Goals
$15 Million for 5 years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation