Posted in Logistics and Management on Sep 13th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews Nyaya Health is pleased to be a signatory of the NGO Code of Conduct for Health Systems Strengthening. This code was promulgated by several notable nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to guide organizations to “limit their harmful effects and maximize their contributions to strengthening public health systems.” Our team at Nyaya Health has [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 9th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews Once every five years, a trove of data on the state of Nepal’s population health is released, often to very little fanfare. Each of the national dailies picks a key statistic or two to point out whether the country is ahead or behind target on a select Millennium Development Goal. For [...]
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Posted in News on Mar 5th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews On March 2-3, our colleagues at Partners in Health hosted a conference on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at Harvard Medical School. Ryan Schwarz, Bibhav Acharya and I attended from Nyaya Health. The conference’s title–”The Long Tail of Global Health Equity”–referred to the observation that while a small handful of conditions (HIV, malaria, [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 1st, 2010
Posted by Jason Andrews The staff of Bayalpata Hospital and our community, led by Dr. Amir Bista and Megha Giri, celebrated World AIDS Day with a host of festivities. This included a dramatic enactment of the pathogenesis of HIV infection in which staff acted as the host, virus, CD4 count and opportunistic infection, as well [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 1st, 2010
posted by Jason Andrews Today, millions of people around the world will recognize World AIDS Day by reflecting on the successes and challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Thirty years into the epidemic, there have been remarkable advances in antiviral medications and medical therapy for HIV-related diseases. Largely in response to the toll of HIV [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Oct 4th, 2010
Posted by Jason Andrews and Astha Ramaiya Nepal was recently honored at The Millenium Development Goals (MDG) review summit for making significant progress in decreasing maternal mortality rates (MMR). According to government estimates, MMR has declined from 850 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to an estimated 229 per 100,000 live births in 2010 [1] . [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 14th, 2010
Posted by Jason Andrews On July 11, 2010, Nyaya Health inaugurated its Antiretoviral Therapy Clinic at Bayalpata Hospital. In partnership with the National Centre for AIDS & STD Control (NCASC), Nyaya Health will now be able to provide comprehensive care including antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV in our large catchment area in Achham. [...]
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