Since 2018, PEPFAR has invested $130 million in cervical cancer screening and treatment among women with HIV globally. Women living with HIV are six times more likely to develop precancerous lesions that advance to cervical cancer than women without HIV. And in…
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we as public health professionals and USAID program implementers are forced to ask ourselves a tough question – are we doing everything we can to prevent and eliminate violence against women?…
On November 11, Veterans Day, the U.S. recognizes the service and sacrifice of our veterans. Formerly known as Armistice Day, the day commemorates the end of the “war to end all wars,” when a truce was signed at 11 a.m. on November…
URC experts in TB from Uganda and the Philippines are pleased to share their experience and knowledge at the Union World Conference on Lung Health 2022, taking place virtually from November 8-11. Following the conference theme of “Combating Pandemics – Today & Tomorrow,”…
When people think about drug treatment, images of incarceration and mandatory inpatient treatment often come to mind. However, the understanding of drug use has changed in the past decade, and today, there is greater recognition that most users are low-to-moderate risk and…
In 2017, Uganda faced several key obstacles to reducing the reach and impact of tuberculosis (TB). These included inadequately trained health care workers and administrative staff, a lack of coordination among TB program implementers and managers, drug stockouts, and more. And while…
When the Philippine government declared a war against illegal drugs, drug-related arrests spiked. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency reported 220,728 arrests from July 2016 to November 2019. Prison congestion rose 612% and led to disease and deaths. In 2017, the Supreme Court…
An average of 1,000 teenage pregnancies are reported per day in Uganda, according to Ministry of Health data. These pregnancies can have serious health impacts. For example, complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for 15–19-year-old girls globally, according…
The following excerpt is taken from an article on Devex that was posted on August 30, 2022. The unprecedented spread of monkeypox, following the COVID-19 pandemic, underscores how ill-prepared the world continues to be for emerging microbial threats. It seems we just can’t learn…
Five years ago, the USAID Defeat TB Activity (Defeat TB) began its mission to improve TB case detection and treatment completion, strengthen community systems to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB, and enhance leadership to control TB at all levels of the health…
