Today we’re excited to share a story from www.endmalaria.org written by Cathy Kralik, World Vision International’s Partnership Communications Manager about an exciting distribution of mosquito nets in Zambia. Issue: How to get 1.5 million rural Zambians to use mosquito nets to help wipe out malaria. Answer: House calls. From March to November 2011, swarms of [...]
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Mosquito nets: “No ordinary distribution” for World Vision Zambia
Posted in Health, WV Programs, tagged End Malaria, Malaria, Mosquito Nets, World Vision, Zambia on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
National baby showers draw attention to child health crisis
Posted in Health, WOV News, tagged Baby Shower, Child Health, Maternal health, Million Moms Challenge, Women of Vision on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Women across the country are raising awareness about preventable child deaths by hosting symbolic “baby showers.” Today’s blog story comes from Christina Bradic, our Women of Vision Advocacy Intern. Christina shares how hosting a baby shower can be an exciting work of advocacy! Shortly after beginning working with Women of Vision, I saw in my [...]
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Posted in Girls, Health, tagged Female circumcision, Female genital mutilation, FGM, World Vision on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Every year around the world, about two million young girls are forced to endure female genital mutilation (FGM). The ritual—practiced in as many as 28 African countries, as well as in some countries in the Middle East, Asia and South America—varies among communities in its severity, the age of girls, and the method used to [...]
The Global Fund marks 10 years
Posted in Health, tagged AIDS, Global Fund, Malaria, Tuberculosis on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Key leaders from the political, philanthropic and pop culture worlds have lined up in support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to mark the end of the organization’s first decade of work, during which it has helped treat millions of people and helped save millions of lives. The video below features interviews [...]
An outpouring of support for the Million Moms Challenge
Posted in Health, WV Programs, tagged Maternal health, Million Moms Challenge, World Vision on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week in the Huffington Post, a senior producer at ABC News, Teri Whitcraft, recounted the milestones reached over the past year by the Million Moms Challenge, a campaign World Vision joined in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and others, to connect a million Americans with millions of mothers in the developing world — where [...]
India is on the verge of a polio-free future
Posted in World News, Health, tagged India, World Health Organization, Polio, World Health on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Photo Credit: Altaf Qadri / AP Last Friday, India reached the one-year mark of registering not a single polio case, dealing a significant blow to a disease that remains endemic in only three other countries — Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. Indian authorities, with the help of domestic and international aid agencies, have pursued a massive, [...]
Helping To Promote Good Health In Africa
Posted in Health, Women, tagged Africa, Health, Maternal health, Women's Health on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Voice of America: “In many countries in Africa, a shortage of qualified medical professionals has been a barrier to broad and equitable access to quality health care. Expanding public health services is vital to addressing the widespread incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases on the continent and reducing maternal and child mortality. To [...]
Giving birth is a battle for survival in Afghanistan
Posted in Health, Women, WV Programs, tagged Afghanistan, Herat Maternity Hospital, Maternal health, maternal mortality, midwifery, Midwives, Women of Viion, World Vision on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We at Women of Vision are passionate about maternal health in Afghanistan, so we were excited to see this issue highlighted by AlertNet. World Vision’s midwifery program and Herat Maternity Hospital are both mentioned. From Reuters AlertNet: “…Politicians, economists and activists from around the world met in Bonn this month to thrash out their vision for battered and [...]
“Mother Robin” wins CNN Hero of the Year
Posted in Health, Women, tagged CNN, Hero of the Year, Indonesia, Maternal health on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From CNN: “Robin Lim, an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. Through her Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, “Mother Robin,” or “Ibu Robin” as she is called by the locals, offers free prenatal [...]
Kenyan Rescue Center provides shelter for FGM girls
Posted in Health, WV Programs, tagged FGM, Kenya, World Vision on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From CoastWeek (Kenya): “…World Vision Kenya has opened a girl’s secondary school in Marich Pass, in West Pokot, in response to the increasing cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), in this area. “The school project came up as a result of increasing numbers of girls in Pokot West district failing to transition from primary to [...]
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