Thoughts from the Last Mile
Social Networking
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebool
Your tax-deductible contribution will directly support the rapid expansion and improvement of essential services in the hardest-to-reach communities. Donations will be used where they are needed most to help increase community access to health care and other essential services in developing countries. Click here for more information.
Interested in making regular automated donations? Click here.
01Feb
VillageReach strives to be a learning organization. We are trying to increase access to healthcare in countries where the roads are impassable, electricity and cell phone networks are intermittent – if they exist at all, half the population is illiterate[1], and almost 10% of children don’t live to see their first birthday[2]. It’s not easy, [...]
Posted by admin on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 Leave a response
06Dec
VillageReach recently conducted a maternal and neonatal health needs assessment in Kwitanda, Malawi in order to understand the barriers (actual and perceived) to accessing quality maternal and neonatal health services in the community. After three years of building infrastructure, making connections in the community, and demonstrating success in improving child health outcomes, particularly for [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 Leave a response
01Dec
Around the world, HIV remains one of the world’s foremost infectious killers. Despite the fact that it may take 10-15 years for HIV to digress to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), collectively HIV and AIDS are responsible for the deaths of more than 25 million people in the past thirty years. Infecting almost 3 million people [...]
Posted by admin on Thursday, December 01, 2011 Leave a response
30Nov
Every year, more than 1.4 million children die from pneumonia, accounting for more than 18% of deaths in children under-five.
Pneumonia can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi and is a type of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs and limits oxygen intake in infected children. Streptococcus pneumoniae – or pneumococcal disease – [...]
Posted by admin on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Leave a response
08Nov
To date, malaria treatment in most endemic countries has been based on presumptive treatment. This means that any febrile child under five years of age is immediately prescribed antimalarial medication, based on the assumption that they are likely to have malaria. When lab tests were costly and rarely available, this policy undoubtedly saved countless lives. [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 Leave a response
04Nov
Interesting series of proposals and exchanges coming out of the first gathering of IEEE’s Global Humanitarian Conference this week in Seattle … IEEE has committed to making this an annual event, so look for their planning updates for next fall.
I was speaking on a panel about the nexus of technology, global development and social enterprise [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, November 04, 2011 Leave a response
03Nov
In Zambia, the Ministry of Health is developing a new information system for collecting and managing the data needed from the service delivery point to inform the procurement, management and distribution of medical commodities. VillageReach, in partnership with PATH, is working with the MOH and its partners to develop a vision and roadmap for logistics [...]
Posted by admin on Thursday, November 03, 2011 Leave a response
16Sep
VillageReach recently completed an annual evaluation of its Kwitanda Community Health Project. The results of the evaluation indicate that VillageReach is making great progress toward meeting its goals to reduce incidence of malaria and diarrhea and to increase treatment of malaria and diarrhea in the Kwitanda community.
Highlights of the evaluation include:
Household net ownership [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, September 16, 2011 Leave a response
07Sep
Remember the days when you had to go to a library to look something up? What if you had to walk there? And it took three hours. And the book you wanted was checked out. Technology has brought so much to our lives that we sometimes forget the value of information.
In my work, I’ve realized [...]
Posted by admin on Wednesday, September 07, 2011 Leave a response
29Aug
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple”
Oscar Wilde
I’m an MPH graduate student and a recent addition to the VillageReach team as a summer Health Systems Group intern. When I was asked to come up with some ideas for how to evaluate active case finding for VillageReach’s new tuberculosis [...]
Posted by admin on Monday, August 29, 2011 Leave a response
Copyright © 2012 VillageReach. - All rights reserved.
site design: astralize.com