From November 15–19, 2020, nearly 5,000 tropical medicine and global health professionals from around the world will attend this year’s virtual ASTMH Annual Meeting and Jhpiego will be there too! Jhpiego will hold a symposium and will have several oral and poster presentations during the meeting. Here is a summary of our presence at the
Within weeks of the first Covid-19 cases being confirmed in Ghana in March, Community Health Officer (CHO) Gertrude Doku was alarmed by the lack of clients seeking preventive, treatment and referral services for malaria at the Tinkong Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound. Having worked for five years at the compound, which serves about
These days, when Jenifer Adjei arrives at Oda Hospital, she marvels at the relative peace and quiet that greets her when she walks through the door midday to begin her 12-hour shift as midwife-in-charge. The number of pregnant women on her labor ward hasn’t decreased; this afternoon she counts 51, a dozen of whom are
