Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jun 3rd, 2011
posted by Ryan Schwarz Two months ago we announced the exciting $75,000 matching grant from the Nick Simons Foundation and set a goal of July 1st, 2011, to raise the full $75,000, generating a total of $150,000 for our patients in Achham. With a month to go we are on track to meet this goal, and [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jun 1st, 2011
Dear Friends, We write seeking your assistance in issuing an urgent call for trained physicians who are interested in serving in Liberia with Tiyatien Health. Founded by survivors of the Liberian civil war, Tiyatien Health is a young, growing organization providing community-based health care in rural southeastern Liberia since 2007. We are asking for your [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on May 6th, 2011
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari Throughout the world, mothers are strong; but mothers in Far-Western Nepal seem to be in another league all together. In 2007, while working with Nick Simons Institute of Rural Health Care Training (NSI), I traveled to Bajhang district, a harrowing journey from Kathmandu involving a one hour flight, a sixteen hour [...]
Posted in News on Apr 13th, 2011
Bibhav Acharya, Executive Vice-President of Nyaya Health was invited to present at an interaction between non resident Nepalis and the two ambassadors (Nepali ambassador to the US and the US ambassador to Nepal) in Washington DC. This invitation-only event was organized by The Non-Resident Nepalis Association ( NRN) National Coordination Council of USA and featured in the Nepal News. [...]
Posted in News on Apr 4th, 2011
Dear friends and family, Donate today and every dollar you give to Nyaya will be doubled! Beginning today, The Nick Simons Foundation will match every donation up to $75,000. If you can support Nyaya, now is the time to do it! For example, if you give $100 to help our ambulance transport a critically ill [...]
Posted in News on Mar 18th, 2011
Nyaya was cited in MyRepublica, in an article describing the role of Nepalis abroad who contributed towards development in Nepal. The article can be accessed here. We would like to thank the author, Saurav Thapa and MyRepublica for featuring our work. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, Mortality Reviews, News on Mar 12th, 2011
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari Note: The following post has graphic content It seemed like it would be a quiet day at Bayalpata Hospital—the Outpatient Department queue was much shorter than the 200 patients that we had been averaging almost every day over the last week. The government had declared a national day of mourning for a past [...]
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, [...]
Posted in News on Feb 28th, 2011
Brown Medicine Magazine has featured an article written by Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz. The article focuses on Nyaya’s central mission and the future of health systems strengthening in developing nations. You can read the article here. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Feb 17th, 2011
Nyaya is looking to fill a vacancy for a Country Director, a position that will play a key administrative role in Nyaya’s work in the coming year. The position is a year-long role and we are accepting applications on a rolling basis. We are looking to fill the position by April, 2011, or as soon [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Feb 10th, 2011
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Imagine that you live in a region that is connected to the rest of the world via only one road. The road has frequent landslides and it takes 12 hours to get to the nearest airport and 16 hours to the nearest intensive care unit (ICU). All of your supplies like [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Feb 1st, 2011
Dear friends and family, Today we share with you our 2010 Annual Report – we hope you’ll take a moment to read about the wonderful progress Nyaya and our partners have made this year in Achham, in the rural and impoverished west of Nepal. Nyaya began five years ago, compelled by the simple idea that [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jan 31st, 2011
In this week’s edition of Nepali Times, a premier English-language newspaper in Nepal, Bibhav Acharya, Nyaya Health’s Executive Vice-President, writes about several challenges that Achham faces. The article goes beyond listing examples of lack of resources and argues that Achham is less “resource-poor” and more “resource-denied”. Mr. Acharya writes about price-fixing and other man-made disasters [...]
Posted in News on Jan 27th, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya In October Nyaya’s Wiki was selected as one of the Featured Projects for the FACT Social Justice Challenge. Recently, NetSquared, the sponsor of the Challenge interviewed Nyaya’s Director of Operations to learn more about Nyaya’s work in the global health delivery field. You can read his interview here. Tweet This Post
Posted in News, Patient Stories on Jan 24th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A brave little four-year-old girl with a pink hairband twisted on the crown of her head, pink and purple polka-dotted shirt, and purple socks is sitting in the procedure room. She had fallen earlier that day while playing and hurt her right arm. She has a small abrasion over her cheek [...]