Archive for the Knowledge and Information Category

PQMD Receives Innovation Grant to Support Best Practices for Hygiene Kit Distribution Programs PQMD is pleased to announce the receipt of an innovation grant to support best practices for hygiene kit distribution programs. PQMD will lead a collective impact coalition to design an evaluation anchored in a

Officials Concerned as Latest Ebola Outbreak Crosses Border to Uganda   According to the Associated Press and the World Health Organization, a 5 year-old-boy died of Ebola in Uganda. He is the first cross-border victim of the latest Ebola outbreak that has killed almost 1,400 people in

Doctors in Venezuela Fear Risk of Deadly Outbreak   Thieves stole medicine, computers, printers, microscopes, air conditioners and other laboratory equipment from the Institute of Tropical Diseases in Caracas. They also stole laboratory animals inoculated with parasites and bacteria. Institute officials are concerned people might get ill

Syrian Medical Facilities Bombed Last week, Syria government forces bombed the Tarmala Maternity and Children’s Hospital in South Idlib, Syria. The airstrikes destroyed the facility, which had served about 6,000 people a month. The facility had been recently evacuated due to other strikes on health facilities in

CHALLENGE PANEL 2.1: HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING: IT’S A JOURNEY, NOT JUST A DESTINATION Panel Description: The panel will take a critical look on WHO’s health system strengthening framework developed in 2008. While the framework and its methodology are vital, is it perhaps time to take another look?