Baltimore, MD—Jhpiego, an international health non-profit and affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, and Alcoa Foundation today announced a new partnership to provide infectious disease preparedness training for health care workers in the Boké Region in western Guinea. The new, 4-month project will train 118 health care providers and provide supportive supervision and on-the-job mentoring in three health facilities in Boké Region that serve 207,000 Guineans. This partnership between Jhpiego and Alcoa Foundation will build on
Maputo, Mozambique (March 17, 2015)—Isaura Ferrão Nyusi, Mozambique’s First Lady and the country’s Minister of Health, marked International Women’s Day by recognizing two hospitals for providing quality maternal, newborn and child health services under a program supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP). Quissico District Hospital
Monrovia, Liberia—Health care providers in 264 health facilities throughout Liberia will receive updated skills training in infection prevention and control (IPC) practices under a new workplace safety project awarded to Jhpiego. This initiative is designed to strengthen health services, especially for women and families, during the Ebola crisis. The project, “Comprehensive Approach to Strengthening Essential
