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Alerte: comment riposter à une épidemie de maladie à virus Bundibugyo?
Read in English Bonjour, Vous savez que les collègues en République démocratique du Congo et en Ouganda soutiennent des communautés touchées par une épidémie de maladie à virus Bundibugyo (MVB). Ils prennent de réels risques pour œuvrer au service de la santé. Voici trois choses que vous pouvez faire aujourd’hui pour les soutenir, chacune en…
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Alert: how do you respond to Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak?
Lire en français Dear Reader, You know that colleagues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda are supporting communities hit by a Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak. They are taking real risks to work for health. Here are three things you can do today to support them, each in less than three minutes.…
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Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause
Ageing primer | Equity programme | Gender in emergencies Menopause affects every woman who lives long enough. Yet in most health systems, it is invisible. No screening. No vocabulary. No budget. Women suffer in silence. And the system looks the other way. You are here to change that. Invite your colleagues on WhatsApp, Gmail, Yahoo…
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Teach to Reach: A question without a network, a course without experience, a network without action (article 4 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Teach to Reach: Newborn care: a baby with no equipment, a woman with no words (article 3 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Teach to Reach: The second microphone (article 2 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Teach to Reach: The questions health workers cannot solve alone (article 1 of 4)
** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm. ** This session may be vulnerable to “store now, decrypt later” attacks. ** The server may need to be upgraded. See https://openssh.com/pq.html Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by…
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Global health architecture: what are we missing?
The 79th World Health Assembly launched a formal process to reform the architecture that governs global health. The design of that process — who sits in the room, what questions it is permitted to ask, whose knowledge it is built to receive — will determine whether reform produces structural change or a more sophisticated version…
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World Malaria Day: what frontline health workers are saying about malaria, and why it matters
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to announce ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’, the first peer learning course by and for health workers. Learn more about the course… Enroll now in English or French. This article is based on experiences shared by health workers during the live event ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’ on 23 April…
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World Immunization Week: 5 years of visual storytelling by and for the people who make vaccines work
During World Immunization Week, Gifty Akosua Adzigbey, an interpreter for the deaf community in Ghana’s Mankrong health district, shared a photo of her daily work. She had spent the week, as she spent most weeks, moving between vaccination posts and households where parents with hearing disabilities needed a translator, and sometimes needed to be walked…
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