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[Video] Enabling Learning Systems: the African Health Initiative in Mozambique

We are extremely proud to share this short video–produced by FORWARD STORYSTUDIO–that highlights the success of our ongoing partnership with the Mozambican Ministry of Health and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to strengthen the health system in...

Get ready for your close up: HAI’s IDEAs project on film

Author: Lee Hicks, Program Manager for Mozambique Programs In March 2018, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) and FORWARD STORYSTUDIO, a production company based in San Francisco, visited Sofala Province, Mozambique, to film HAI’s Integrated District Evidence...

Press Release – Timor-Leste

The City of Moonee Valley donates mobile phones to Liquica Municipality for use in the Liga Inan, mHealth program. Liquica, Timor-Leste, July 13 2017 On 13 July 2017, Health Alliance International had the honour of handing over a donation of 33 mobile phones on behalf...

Ama Ferik: HAI Midwife Helps Local Women Establish Home Industry

By Susan Thompson, Director of Timor-Leste Programs When HAI Timor-Leste midwife, Rara Dethan, attended the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in May 2016, she was supported by a Women Deliver Young Leader Scholarship. The focus of the conference was the...

Why don’t more women breastfeed?

If you’ve been keeping up with our blog the past few days, you already know that we’re celebrating World Breastfeeding Week. We’ve discussed the health benefits to mother and infant of breastfeeding, the needs of HIV positive mothers who are breastfeeding, and HAI’s...

HAI Supports Emergency Childbirth/Delivery Skills Building for Ambulance Staff

By Rara Dethan and Sarah Meyanathan HAI is excited to announce its new collaboration with another project funded by the Australian Government; the Health Transport Project (HTP). HTP supports the Ministry of Health(MOH) to build maintenance capacity of emergency...

Nursing and the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

Sarah Gimbel, HAI Senior Technical Advisor and co-Director of the Center for Global Health Nursing at the University of Washington’s School of Nursing, recently joined 57 nurses from the United States and West Africa to issue a formal critique of the...

Landmark book Sickness and Wealth is back in print!

By: Mary Anne Mercer and Meredith Fort Over ten years ago, health advocates at both HAI and the University of Washington were becoming increasingly concerned with the rise of neoliberal-style globalization and its likely effects on health, particularly in...

Global Fund for Women Showcases HAI-Timor’s Mobile Moms Project

We are so excited to share a recent report from The Global Fund for Women currently showcasing HAI Timor-Leste’s Mobile Moms project! We’re proud of our team there and all of the other amazing work they do. Find out more about HAI Timor-Leste and support...

Stocking health facilities needs people and supplies

HAI works in some pretty remote locales – think of small villages nestled in the mountains of Timor-Leste, or the end of a long dirt road in Côte d’Ivoire. Getting supplies out to health clinics in these areas is a constant challenge that Ministries of Health face...

Quick look: Just what is the TPP and how does it impact global health?

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of news coverage about the TPP, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership – both on the extensive negotiations that have taken place over the past several years as well as the growing opposition to the trade deal and how it would...