On most evenings and weekends, in Tajikistan’s Khatlon region, mothers bring their children to Dr. Ranogul Khusanova’s home seeking treatment or advice on nutrition and breastfeeding. As a nutrition specialist for USAID’s Abt-led Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity, Dr. Ranogul uses her local community knowledge to adapt, design and implement relevant nutrition and breastfeeding approaches. Read her incredible story!
USAID’s International Health Program, led by Abt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is facilitating domestic resource mobilizationby solidifying commitments from local governments and private companies to allocate resources for health priorities.
Climate change can cause migration that burdens health systems. Health system strengthening approaches benefiting migrants and host communities long-term include removing barriers to access care and promoting regional collaboration to anticipate future climate impacts on health and migration. Watch the full recording of Abt’s panel today!
Social enterprises provide critical health services to their communities, and they care about quality. The Abt-led, USAID-funded SHOPS Plus project hosted a webinar featuring donors, healthcare entrepreneurs, and others to discuss the importance of investing in social enterprises and need for collaboration among their financial supporters.
In Papua New Guinea’s iconic Kokoda Track, people can face multiday walks to access healthcare; those with disabilities are particularly impacted. Learn how Abt is designing disability assessments and training that health workers have used to implement lifechanging interventions.
To unpack the links between gender, racial, and disability inequality and violence, Abt convened experts and practitioners from around the world to discuss how we can all move toward a rights-based, anti-racist, and feminist approach to GBV prevention and response.
Well-functioning health systems enable citizens to access affordable quality health services, medicines, and commodities. Health commodity supply chains are critical to health systems yet are often weak and underfunded in low- and middle-income countries. Jeanna Holtz details what donors are doing to help.
The widely adopted approach of targeting women for economic empowermenthas seemingly not been applied to climate finance. Leisa Gibson and coauthors dive into the importance of channeling investments directly to women at the forefront of climate action.
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