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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

Health Partnership Scheme – New Grantees Announced

THET is pleased to announce that twenty successful health partnerships have been awarded funding through the Health Partnership Scheme extension 2017-2018...

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‘A Year in the Tanzania Office’ – Godwin Kabalika, Country Director – THET Tanzania

In 2016, THET established an office in Dar es Salaam to deliver programmes and projects that support and focus on health workforce development. A year on we caught up wit...

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Highlights from THET Annual Conference 2017

3 days, 350 delegates and 98 speakers presenting on all things global health and partnerships: our 2017 Annual Conference provided insight into the power of global health...

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Celebrating Impact – The Health Partnership Scheme

We are pleased to celebrate the successes of the Health Partnership Scheme 2011-2019....

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A welcome to our new Head of External Engagement

We are happy to welcome Jeanette McKenna as the new Head of External Engagement at THET....

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Introducing our new website!

We are pleased and excited to present THET’s brand new website!...

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Rheumatic heart disease: a forgotten killer in low-income countries

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death and disability in the world today: over 17.5 million people die from cardiovascular disease every year....

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Global Health: From National Beginnings to International Partnerships

After six years of global health partnerships it is clear that the model has really come of age. The stats speak for themselves......

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A multi-pronged offensive against NCDs in rural Ethiopia

Toby asseses a multi-pronged offensive against NCDs in rural Ethiopia,targeting poor health literacy, lack of trained & located health staff & the absence of diagnostics....

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Re-learning that ‘worn out tools’ are still the most reliable

Sarah Cavanagh explores the lessons to be learnt from spending time volunteering overseas with health partnerships....

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From a New Director-General to Women Leaders in Global Health: A Week at the World Health Assembly

Andrew Jones looks at THET's relations with the WHO for the last two and half years....

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NHS expertise, how to reach its full potential

Our Volunteer Engagement Manager talks about the recommendations of the recently published IDC report and what it might mean for the future of volunteering from the NHS....

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