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HIFA Thematic Discussion on Community Health Workers - Part 2: Appropriate supervision, remuneration, career prospects, and workload

Thursday, October 17, 2019

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HIFA continues our collaboration with WHO, Health Systems Global (CHW Thematic Working Group) and other key organisations (icddr,b) on a series of three major HIFA thematic discussions on CHWs. These discussions are supporting the dissemination and uptake of the WHO Guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes (CHW Guideline), launched in October 2018. 

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Six words to accelerate progress on universal health coverage: 'timely access to essential healthcare information'

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

On 23 September 2019, world leaders will come together at the United Nations General Assembly in New York for a high-level meeting on universal health coverage. They will agree a political declaration to secure commitment worldwide to making universal health coverage a reality.

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HIFA ambassador Joey Lapena presents HIFA findings on Open Access: Perceptions and Misconceptions at the APAME Conference, Xi'an City, China

Saturday, September 7, 2019

HIFA ambassador Joey Lapena (right) has just presented HIFA's findings on Open Access: Perceptions and Misconceptions at the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Editors conference, Xi'an City, China. His presentation is available here: [PPT]  [PDF]

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New 5-minute video: How HIFA works with WHO to improve the availability of healthcare information worldwide

Thursday, August 29, 2019

We are delighted to announce a new 5-minute video on the HIFA YouTube channel. Isabelle Wachsmuth (Communication and project manager, Universal Health Coverage and Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva; Lead moderator, HIFA-French. http://www.hifa.org/forums/hifa-french) introduces Healthcare Information For All. She ends with with a focus on multilingualism and a call to action for publishers to improve the availability of health research in languages other than English.

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HIFA.org Website Growth

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

As a part of on-going development of the HIFA.org website, we have analysed the website traffic to understand the breadth of our user base and the value this resource can bring to our members and non-members alike. 

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New HIFA leaflet

Sunday, July 28, 2019

HIFA is delighted to announce our new 4-page leaflet for you to introduce your friends and contacts to HIFA and invite them to join us. www.hifa.org/join

You can read and download the leaflet online here.

Thank you for helping us to promote HIFA more widely!

HIFA Steering Group

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Open Access: Perceptions and misconceptions

Thursday, July 11, 2019

The HIFA working group on Access to Health Research is delighted to announce our upcoming sponsored HIFA thematic discussion:

OPEN ACCESS: PERCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS

The discussion starts on 22 July and will last for 4 weeks. The main discussion will be on HIFA (English) and we shall also hold parallel discussions on CHIFA (child health and rights), HIFA-Portuguese, HIFA-French, HIFA-Spanish and HIFA-Zambia.

Here are some of the questions and myths we'll be exploring:

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HIFA appeal and local event - teaching children about health

Sunday, July 7, 2019

HIFA launched its fundraising appeal on 14th March at the HIFA office in Charlbury, UK. 

A total of 15 individuals are now giving regularly to HIFA through a monthly standing order, raising nearly £3,000 per year. Those who have agreed to be named are listed on our Donate page (see Personal donations 2010-2019): 

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HIFA Blog: Month in Review, April 2019 - Traditional birth attendants

Friday, June 21, 2019

Quote of the month: “To mandate only skilled persons to take deliveries in a world with severe shortage of human resource in health, puts pregnant women at more risk during delivery”. (HIFA Steering Group member Joseph Ana, Africa Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Patient Safety, Nigeria)

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Didier Demassosso represents HIFA at the Pan-African Health Conference, Yaounde, Cameroon, 8-10 April 2019

Friday, May 17, 2019

HIFA Country Representative Didier Demassosso (a former winner of CR of the Year) helped to organise, facilitate and present at the Pan-African Health Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon: Addressing health challenges of rural and marginalized African communities.

Didier focused his presentation on HIFA and the role that accessing and making available health information has in empowering populations everywhere and especially in rural areas to have good health. 25 participants decided to become HIFA members and are now participating on the HIFA-English and HIFA-French forums.

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