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Giving San Diego Infants a Healthy Start through Lactation …

WebA display on breastfeeding at the Global Communities’ Healthy Start program office. Photo: Sophia Elizabeth Photography “Having the option to breastfeed in the hospital creates a good and fair chance for it to be successful over the first few days and weeks,” says Chardá Bell, senior perinatal health navigator with Global Communities’ Healthy …

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Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

WebThe five main pillars of our maternal, newborn and child health and reproductive health and family planning programming include: Strengthening the health system. Improving quality of services. Increasing access to services. Improving healthy practices with social and behavior change. Combining global best practices with locally-led solutions.

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Bridging Healthcare Gaps for Island Communities in Ghana

WebIn a momentous step towards revolutionizing healthcare accessibility for secluded island communities in the Oti region of Ghana, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with Global Communities, orchestrated the commissioning and handover ceremony of the groundbreaking “Health Voyager” …

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Holistic Menstrual Hygiene Management in Ghana

WebAll these have been factored in Global Communities’ all-inclusive and holistic approach to Menstrual Hygiene Management ( MHM) interventions in Ghana. MHM Interventions. In January 2020, over three hundred basic students in the Central Region, including visually and hearing impaired females, benefitted from MHM education and …

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Enhancing WASH Activity

WebWith funding from the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Global Communities is implementing Enhancing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (En-WASH) Activity in Ghana from October 2021 to September 2026. En-WASH aims to facilitate access to and use of sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene

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Sanitation & Hygiene

WebHundreds of millions of people globally do not have access to sustainable safe drinking water and sanitation services. According to the World Health Organization/UNICEF Global Joint Monitoring Program, as of 2020, about 25 percent of the world’s population was without safely managed drinking water, and about 46 percent without access to a safely …

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Improving Key Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

WebYears of effort and focus by the Government of Ghana and its partners have yielded significant improvements in the country’s child morbidity and mortality rates. Still, every year, at least 4,000 Ghanaian children die from diarrhea, and 23% experience chronic malnutrition linked to poor water and sanitation.(1) To help improve these numbers, …

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A Community Approach to Preventing Cholera in Ghana

WebPublished 02/01/2018 by Global Communities. A Community Approach to Preventing Cholera in Ghana. Volunteers comb the marketplaces of Cape Coast, Ghana educating stall owners on how to prevent the spread of cholera. These efforts led to a dramatic drop in cholera incidence from 735 cases in 2016, to just 9 cases since January 2017.

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Uniting Communities: A Pivotal Force in Combating HIV/AIDS

WebAt Global Communities, our core strategy is to center our work on strengthening communities to become a pivotal force in the HIV/AIDS response. To date, our HIV/AIDS programming has reached approximately 400,000 children and 68,000 adolescent girls across Botswana, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi and Honduras.

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Empowering Women in India through Self-Help Groups

WebOur Helpdesk is an important component for our interventions in India. The Helpdesk is operated by women leaders from Self-Help Groups who are trained in counseling and referral services while engaging with victims/survivors of gender-based violence. Women or girls who call the Helpdesk are heard, informed and supported to …

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Reflecting on the COVID-19 Response Program’s Impact in San …

WebA COMMUNITY-CENTERED APPROACH TO CONTACT TRACING. By hiring staff members directly from the communities being served, who also had experience with technology, epidemiology and customer service, Global Communities was able to build trust and provide culturally adapted information about COVID-19 to clients in their …

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Curbing Open Defecation in Liberia to Save Children Under Five

WebSince February 2013, Global Communities (IWASH Implementer) has engaged 120 communities in an aggressive campaign to end open defecation. By July more than half were certified by the Government of Liberia (GOL) as Open Defecation-free and an additional 40% are on track to reach this status by August. This has been achieved …

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