http://blog.nyayahealth.org Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/28/picofwk32/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/28/picofwk32/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:00:26 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3941 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/28/picofwk32/feed/ 1 Posted by Jesse Brady   ————-  Jesse Brady is the Blog Editor of Nyaya Health and is currently pursuing her MS in International Medicine at Montana State University. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:45 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3923 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/feed/ 0 Posted by Jesse Brady     ————-   Jesse Brady is the Blog Editor of Nyaya Health and is currently pursuing her MS in International Medicine at Montana State University.   Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/13/stubbed-toe/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/13/stubbed-toe/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:00:30 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3788 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/13/stubbed-toe/feed/ 1 Posted by Duncan Maru   [This poem was written by Duncan Maru, co-founder and President of Nyaya Health.]   You have come to me for a busted toe, an accident, you say. Dressed in your loose black shirt with a large Christian cross on it, grey sagging sweat pants. Your face, round, youthful, inquisitive, impresses [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/30/rumapih/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/30/rumapih/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:27 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3760 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/30/rumapih/feed/ 0 Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari   [Ruma Rajbhandari, of Nyaya Health, the Nick Simons Institute, and Partners In Health, recently presented at the 18th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium, held on September 24th, 2011 by Partners In Health.  The theme of this year’s symposium was “From Innovation to Transformation: Partnerships in Action,” and Ruma shared her [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/12/picofwk21/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/12/picofwk21/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:00:24 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3682 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/12/picofwk21/feed/ 0 Posted by Jesse Brady   ————- Jesse Brady is the Blog Editor of Nyaya Health and is currently pursuing her MS in International Medicine at Montana State University. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/27/facilitateddisclosure/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/27/facilitateddisclosure/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:00:16 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3431 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/27/facilitateddisclosure/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya Confidentiality and Hippocratic Oath state that a doctor should do no harm and keep all patient information a secret. This oath has been followed since the dawn of medicine. However, working in the field of reproductive health and infectious diseases, I regularly question if this law holds true when your disclosure [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/01/05/achhamburdenofhiv/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/01/05/achhamburdenofhiv/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:36:33 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2412 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/01/05/achhamburdenofhiv/feed/ 0 Posted by Jason Andrews Recently released figures suggest that in the district of Achham, where Nyaya Health works, has among the highest prevalence of HIV infection in Nepal.  A total of 1053 cases of HIV have been reported in the past six years, of which nearly two-thirds were diagnosed in women.  Achham is home to [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/05/chw2/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/05/chw2/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:11:39 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2286 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/05/chw2/feed/ 2 Posted by Ranju Sharma My previous blog in this series gave an overview of the structure and the rationale behind our newly implemented community health program. Here is a bit more detailed description of the structure of the program. In the community, the government’s Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) work under the supervision of Bayalpata Hospital’s [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/01/world_aids_day_bayalpata_2010/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/01/world_aids_day_bayalpata_2010/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:20:45 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2276 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/01/world_aids_day_bayalpata_2010/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/11/29/buddha_air_emergency_trans/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/11/29/buddha_air_emergency_trans/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:00:50 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2251 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/11/29/buddha_air_emergency_trans/feed/ 0 Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Bikash Gauchan and Dr. Amir Bista, Nyaya’s two physicians, were running out of options for a very sick 17 year old girl from a remote village in Achham.  She had been to several hospitals in the region and had conflicting lab results and no clear diagnosis. Despite our best efforts, [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/10/28/pm_exec_di/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/10/28/pm_exec_di/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:34:59 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=1979 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/10/28/pm_exec_di/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya Nyaya Health and Partners in Health’s partner organization, Project Muso, forwarded the following request for a job opening. Project Muso has been doing tremendous work for health care equity in Mali since 2005. They are currently advertising for their first full-time Executive Director position and we are honored to spread the word [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/08/02/safemotherhoodcmaj/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/08/02/safemotherhoodcmaj/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:01:42 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=1756 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/08/02/safemotherhoodcmaj/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya Wendy Glauser, a journalist from Toronto, recently visited Nyaya’soperations in Achham and wrote about the Safe Motherhood Incentive Program and birthing practices in Nepal. You can read her piece in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which can be accessed here.   Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/07/13/bayalpata-hospital-initiates-safe-motherhood-money-for-deliveries-program/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/07/13/bayalpata-hospital-initiates-safe-motherhood-money-for-deliveries-program/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:00:38 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=1452 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/07/13/bayalpata-hospital-initiates-safe-motherhood-money-for-deliveries-program/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya Bayalpata Hospital has recently been approved by the regional District Health Office to begin The Safe Motherhood Program, in which expectant mothers can be financially reimbursed for attending antenatal care (ANC) visits and delivering in the hospital. Given that Achham suffers from one of the highest maternal mortality rates in South [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/07/11/famine/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/07/11/famine/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:00:58 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=1447 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/07/11/famine/feed/ 0 Posted by Sanjay Basu Nyaya Health has recently expanded its clinical reach to address one of the most basic, and yet widely unaddressed, health issues to affect the rural poor: malnutrition. Introducing micronutrient supplementation, fortified milk, and ready-to-use therapeutic foods, Nyaya hopes to attain the highest clinical standards to treat malnutrition as a chronic source of [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/06/07/mortalityreport/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/06/07/mortalityreport/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:47 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=1393 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/06/07/mortalityreport/feed/ 2 Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD All too often in our work, we are confronted by deaths of young people that are devastating by their impact on families and communities and by the fact of their being so preventable.  The death of this young pregnant woman and her child, described below in the mortality report [...]