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Sharing the Stories of Community Health Workers in Brazil
Unlike many other countries, community healthcare is a verified profession in Brazil, and formal introduction of CHWs into health systems has led to notable improvements in health outcomes.
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Working to Increase the Number of Midwives—Especially “Melanated” Midwives—Across All Communities in the U.S.
Shortages of maternity care have reached critical levels in the U.S., yet midwives only attend around 10% of births. And only 8% of midwives in practice in the U.S. are midwives of color.
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Meet a Midwife Tackling Uganda’s Youth Sexual Health Crisis
Harriet Nayiga, founder and director of Midwife-led Community Transformation (MILCOT), is committed to transforming standards of midwifery in her native Uganda.
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Unmasked: Profiles in Humanity & Resiliency - Paolo Glaude, RN, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY
With support from Johnson & Johnson Foundation, National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) produced a series of video profiles of Black nurses sharing authentic stories of what being resilient means to them.
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Bringing Healthcare to Remote Villages in India and Serving as a Role Model for Girls
The Auxiliary Nurses and Midwives Training Program at the Indian Red Cross Society’s Bel Air College of Nursing in Maharashtra, India is addressing the acute shortage of nurses in rural villages and providing women with employment.
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Running Critical Care Wards By Day, and Studying by Night
Jackline Tindih, Senior Nurse Manager at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital in Kenya, and Silas Okullu, a registered nurse at the Soroti Regional Referral Hospital in Eastern Uganda, are at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 in East Africa, and are setting the standard for critical care delivery in their respective hospitals.
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Mobilizing the Community to Eliminate Preventable Blindness in Children
Recognizing myopia as a public health problem, the Chinese Government launched a comprehensive national plan for the prevention and control of myopia. Village doctors like Pan Taoling have a large role to play in achieving the government’s goals.
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Caring for Those Who Care for Us: Supporting Frontline Health Workers in Kenya Through Johnson & Johnson’s Lion Secondment Program
COVID-19 has resulted in a “shadow” mental health pandemic felt by people worldwide, but especially health workers who deliver care.
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“I am an Advocate for the Patient and a Voice for the Voiceless”: Meet a Health Worker Empowered to Serve Her Community Through a Unique Model of Care
Sister Nomthandazo Lerumo is the first nurse within the Unjani Clinic network to achieve ownership of a Johnson & Johnson-funded clinic—and one of 92 nurses to date equipped through the network to own and lead the effort in transforming South Africa’s healthcare system.
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