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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

COVID-19: Cementing Support for Women and Girls

The support we have received from the Fraxinus Trust over the past two years has been invaluable to THET, allowing us to strengthen our approach to gender equity....

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A New View: Designing the care we give

Nurses are the bridge between a patient and the system, and by enabling nurses to practice to the top of their licence, we can help to improve health systems globally. ...

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Nursing Now and Forever: The State of the World’s Nursing Report must be the basis for action

We hardly need to state the value of nurses at the moment – and yet we must. The world will need an additional 4.6 million nurses by 2030 to ensure health for all....

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Transferring Skills to Fight the Pandemic

Jessica, a clinical nurse specialising in TB and THET volunteer, explains how nurses across the UK and beyond are transferring their skills to help overcome Covid-19....

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‘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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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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