Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Dec 3rd, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s community health worker (CHW) program has grown extensively in its first 18 months. Covering an area of more than 20,000 people, throughout six of the area’s villages, Nyaya is now working with nearly 100 CHWs, who are all locally-employed women from the villages that they serve. Recently, Nyaya has been [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 30th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Mar 9th, 2011
Bayalpata Hospital’s Safe Motherhood program has been featured on the Partners In Health (PIH) blog as part of their blog series to honor women’s health for International Women’s Day on March 8th. You can read the blog post here. We would like to thank PIH for their continued mentorship and support of our work, and [...]
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, Reports, Social Justice and Health, Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz At this time of great crisis, Nyaya Health would like to express its solidarity with the people of Haiti, and the various NGOs and governments who are currently working in these crucial hours in the rescue and relief operations. We hope that our supporters will contribute to these efforts, either by [...]