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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

Dame Julie Walters supports the Health Worker Action Fund!

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

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

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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Antibiotic Awareness: Ensuring Pharmaceutical Care in Ghana

We have seen a couple of cases where patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics and we are getting to a point where most of our antibiotics won’t work....

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Sustaining Antimicrobial Stewardship in Zambia

During a recent monitoring trip, THET's Grants Officer, Beatrice Waddingham, caught up with the pharmacy team working on AMS at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka...

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Transformation, Health and the Sustainable Development Goals

September 2019 is, as we shall see, an important month for international development – and not just because of THET’s Conference on Transforming Global Health!...

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