Success Story: Traditional Birth Attendants as Community Based Referral Agents
Salina Chepkonga, 65, has been a Traditional Birth Attendant in Cheptongei, Kenya for the past 28 years. She was educated by our partner, Sobon Support Group, a community-based organization in Kenya, on the benefits of giving birth in health facilities instead of at home. So far, she has referred and…
GlaxoSmithKline Announced Approval of Experimental Malaria Vaccine
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline recently announced that their experimental vaccine Mosquirix (also known as RTS,S) has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, which is a major step toward access in Malaria endemic regions. Once Mosquirix passes the World Health Organization’s review it can be used within affected countries. GSK scientist…
HealthRight Board Elects New Chair
HealthRight International 240 Greene Street Second Floor New York, NY 10003 www.healthright.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY (August 13, 2015) – On July 28th, HealthRight International’s Board of Directors elected Board member Tracey Edwards to be Chairperson. Tracey replaces Steven J. Berger after 10 years as HealthRight Board Chairman….
HealthRight Engages Social Workers to Strengthen Child Protection Practices
HealthRight is collaborating with the Social Work Professional Development Center in Hanoi to engage social workers in training to help improve their child protection practices. Recently, the capacity building opportunities have expanded to include topics such as cyber safety and non-violent communication. As legislative efforts to introduce foster care nation-wide…
Human Rights Clinic Assists Migrants from Central America
Over the past two years HealthRight’s Human Rights Clinic (HRC) has seen demand skyrocket for its critical forensic and case management services. The HRC provided over 570 survivors of torture and other grave human rights abuses with forensic medical and psychological evaluations documenting trauma experienced, as an essential component of…
Ukraine Program Expands to Include Survivors of Conflict
HealthRight’s initiative addressing gender-based violence in Ukraine has thus far focused on women and girls who are HIV-positive or street-involved. Now, this work has expanded in response to the country-wide epidemic of forced migration driven by the violent conflict in Ukraine’s eastern regions. With support from the European Commission,…
HealthRight Partners with Clinic in Nepal
In early 2015, HealthRight partnered with a clinic in Nepal, which serves a very poor community in the Kathmandu valley. Following the April earthquake and the many weeks of aftershocks, HealthRight helped the clinic secure a grant from the American Jewish World Service, which allowed the clinic – named Friends…
Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Friends: This year we celebrate HealthRight’s 25th anniversary. Dr. Jonathan Mann started HealthRight in 1990 to realize his vision of health for all by building access to health services for excluded communities. Thirty countries and hundreds of thousands of lives touched later, I am confident he’d be proud of…
Quarterly Report: Mobile Clinics
HealthRight Mobile Clinics Reaching more families with family planning QUARTERLY REPORT (Feb. 2015- April 2015) By Jennifer Snell (Program Director) and Sofia Schappert (Intern) HealthRight International would like to thank you all for your generous support! Each month, HealthRight continues to supports 20 mobile clinics (10 in Marakwet West and…
