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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

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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Making a Difference to Paediatric Perioperative Care in South Africa

The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists and the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists worked in partnership to improve perioperative care....

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Five Questions With…Ian Walker

We caught up with Ian Walker of Johnson & Johnson to discuss the progress made so far under the Africa Grants Programme and ambitions for the future of the programme....

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Call for Quality Improvement Examples

In partnership with the World Health Organization we are conducting a survey to collate examples of quality improvement (QI) tools and resources. ...

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A Collective Effort to Tackle AMR: CwPAMS One Year On

It is probably one of my proudest moments of my career to see pharmacists from multiple institutions, associations and levels of practice united under the CwPAMS umbrella...

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Five Questions With…Dr. Marc Sprenger

AMR threatens progress toward achieving universal health coverage by making infections more difficult and costly to treat....

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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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Transforming Global Health: Partnership Responses to Ensuring Quality UHC

Our 2019 Annual Conference celebrated the strength, dedication and optimism of the global health community....

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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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