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News, events and stories from across the health partnership community. We would love to hear from you! If you have an idea for a piece or an account from a trip please contact our Communications Team: comms@thet.org

‘Testing our stamina from all perspectives’: How Myanmar is coping in the face of Covid-19

It has been more than three months since COVID-19 brought the world to a near stop. Here in Myanmar, the first two positive cases were found only two weeks ago....

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Striving for Gender Equity in the Decade of Delivery

In this blog we hear from Jessica Fraser, Grants Officer at THET, on what more needs to be done towards gender equity in health to achieve the SDGs....

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Five Questions With…Michele Barry

We caught up with Dr Michele Barry, Founder of WomenLift Health, to discuss the barriers to women’s participation in global health leadership....

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Antibiotic Awareness: Ensuring Pharmaceutical Care in Ghana

We have seen a couple of cases where patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics and we are getting to a point where most of our antibiotics won’t work....

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Sustaining Antimicrobial Stewardship in Zambia

During a recent monitoring trip, THET's Grants Officer, Beatrice Waddingham, caught up with the pharmacy team working on AMS at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka...

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Transformation, Health and the Sustainable Development Goals

September 2019 is, as we shall see, an important month for international development – and not just because of THET’s Conference on Transforming Global Health!...

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Widening Healthcare Access in Host And Humanitarian Settings

Vicky Opia, Executive Director of the Peace Hospice in Adjumani, Uganda tells us about the challenges she faces in providing healthcare to refugee and host communities....

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Somaliland Spotlight: Ensuring Gender Equity in Health Programming

In the run up to THET’s 2019 Annual Conference, Roda Ali Ahmed, a Lecturer at the University of Hargeisa, reflects on the importance of ensuring gender equity in health....

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Quality at the Heart of Universal Health Coverage

Moves towards UHC are increasingly placing quality considerations at its heart....

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Dr Tom Bashford on Partnership, Collaboration and Working Towards Shared Goals

I’m always amazed by the readiness of the global health community to collaborate with each other. Many of us see collaboration as a pathway to efficiency and efficacy....

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Decentralising NCD Care in Ethiopia

THET has been working to support the development of  appropriate non-communicable disease care in Ethiopia since the early 1990s....

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Launch of our Academic Partnership Project in Tanzania

THET is pleased to announce that with the generous funding of the Veta Bailey Trust, we will be supporting the establishment of a new academic partnership in Tanzania....

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