Stories
Read accounts from health workers involved in Health Partnership activity across the globe and the impact it's having on patients.
Video – Epilepsy: Ending the Isolation
21 September 2017
A health partnership between Basildon & Thurrock NHS Trust and Lumley Government Hospital in Sierra Leone have come together to improve epilepsy care in Sierra Leone...
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Video – Global Links: Working Together to Improve Child Health Across Africa
21 September 2017
RCPCH Global Links is a long-term volunteering project funded by THET. The project places UK volunteers in health institutions in five African countries....
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Video – Developing leaders, improving global health
21 September 2017
A health partnership between Improving Global Health & The Maddox-Jolie-Pitt Foundation is improving healthcare in rural Cambodia...
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Video – Reversing the suicide trend
21 September 2017
India is the suicide capital of the world. Many people who attempt suicide suffer from mental health disorders....
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Video – Putting nurses at the heart of mental health care
21 September 2017
Nurses are the largest workforce in India but the majority do not receive specific mental health training....
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Video – Air Pollution: Thinking global, acting local
21 September 2017
Air pollution is a public health emergency responsible for millions of deaths. Improving Global Health and the Maddox-Jolie-Pitt Foundation partner to combat the effects...
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Video – Midwifery & Health Partnership volunteering
21 September 2017
UK midwives who volunteered with the Global Midwifery Twinning Project reflect on their time overseas, the challenges local midwives face......
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Video – What would the world be like without midwives?
21 September 2017
In this video UK Midwives who volunteered with the Global Midwifery Twinning Project answer the question, what would the world be like without Midwives?...
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Video – “Don’t they throw rocks at you?” – The Brain Gain Programme in Uganda
21 September 2017
A Peer Support Worker explains the impact of East London and Butabika's Brain Gain project on herself and other patients...
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‘Mama en Pikin welbodi’
25 February 2017
Two health partnerships are improving the lives of women and children in Kambia District, Sierra Leone....
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Epilepsy: Ending the Isolation
25 February 2017
Creating an epilepsy hub in Sierra Leone....
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Communicating with terminal patients: training health workers in Mauritania
25 January 2017
‘It is not health which makes life and it is not illness which makes death’ - Mauritanian proverb...
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