Reducing Under 2 Mortality in Far West Nepal
Nandini Choudhury - December 15, 2018
In Far West Nepal, where we work, the number of under 5 deaths for every 1,000 live births is among the highest in the country, compared to the national under-5 …Read More
How I Became a Community Healthcare Nurse
Aasha Bhatta - December 11, 2018
I was twenty-two, a year out of nursing school, when a woman named Dhana came in the private hospital, barely alive. We rushed to donate blood and resuscitate her. Dhana …Read More
How HIV/AIDS Activism Shaped Nepal, Changed the World
Duncan Maru - December 1, 2018
In 2008, shortly after arriving in Achham, in the far west of Nepal, I met a woman with advanced AIDS. She would die shortly thereafter of fulminant pneumonia. Her death …Read More
Designing Community Health Systems for Integrated Care
David Citrin; Aradhana Thapa - October 27, 2018
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play an important role in bringing high-quality health care services closer to the home, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Nepal. For the last …Read More
Solving for the Hardest Cases
Duncan Maru - September 21, 2018
Nine months pregnant, twenty-year-old Pabitri was herding goats when she started to feel abdominal pains. She had been educated by a Possible community health worker about the symptoms and knew …Read More