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Female Health Workers and COVID-19: Gender Disparity in a Time of Global Crisis
5 May 2020
The COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted many of our societies’ failings, from the lack of resilience of our economies to the prevalence of misinformation....
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Is Uganda on track to win the COVID-19 battle or is the worst yet to come?
5 May 2020
THET Country Director, Sheba Gitta, reflects on Uganda's battle against COVID-19 and the role of partnership in flattening the curve....
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Dame Julie Walters supports the Health Worker Action Fund!
4 May 2020
We are delighted to have the continued support of Dame Julie Walters as we work to protect the physical and mental health of health workers on the frontlines....
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Sustainable Change in an Era of COVID-19
27 April 2020
Impax Asset Management are the first of our corporate partners to support the Health Worker Action Fund, which is providing vital training and equipment to health workers...
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COVID-19: Cementing Support for Women and Girls
22 April 2020
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
7 April 2020
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
7 April 2020
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
6 April 2020
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
6 April 2020
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
10 March 2020
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
10 March 2020
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
16 January 2020
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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