IntraHealth International
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IntraHealth International is a non-profit organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. dedicated to working with developing countries to improve their public health capabilities. Originally established as a program of the medical school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979, IntraHealth became an independent non-governmental organization in 2003. The organization has worked in more than 50 countries, and is currently active in 28.
IntraHealth focuses on:
- Developing sustainable human resources for health
- Strengthening and supporting primary health care providers
- Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
- Improving maternal, neonatal and children’s health
- Increasing access to family planning
IntraHealth is working to increase community health services in Rwanda, with a $34 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.[1]
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- USAID - Women Making a Difference. Fatu Yumkella: A Woman Making a Difference in Sub-Saharan Africa
- The New Times (Kigali). 2 June 2007. Rwanda: Twubakane Promotes Health Care Services. By Joseph Kamugisha in Kigali. Discusses the Twubakane Decentralization and Health Project in Rwanda operated by IntraHealth.
- Accra Mail, 14 July 2003, via Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. Intra-Health International Launched in Ghana.