IntraHealth:
Empowering People for 21st Century
Pape Gaye, CEO
IntraHealth
In total congruence with Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s assertion that we need to attend to those who hold up Half the Sky, IntraHealth’s CEO, Pape Gaye, explores with Future Choices the strategies which has IntraHealth undertaken to bring sorely needed health care to women in developing countries. He explains that IntraHealth’s focus on enhancement of the capacity of local health institutions means that IntraHealth brings not a quick cure but long-term institutional change from which we all benefit. His discussion is contained in the November 2009 airing of Future Choices: "IntraHealth: Empowering People for 21st Century."
When is Future Choices aired in your community?
See Local TV schedule for time and channel in each participating community in Westchester County.
In Kenya, Pape Gaye says, IntraHealth's work is integral to the national effort to expand the workforce of health professionals, especially in underserved areas of the country. The shortage of health care professionals in the developing world snaps into focus in this graphic map:
He explains that "Kenya needs more health workers to care for its 32 million citizens, and it needs them fast." |MORE
We learn that IntraHealth "is dedicated to providing health care workers around the globe with the training, support and infrastructure they need to solve their own communities' critical public health issues. We believe in a world where all people have an equal opportunity for health and well-being." |MORE
In-country staff understand the challenges they are facing. Kimani Mungai, Project Director of IntraHealth-Kenya, asserts:
"The biggest cause of poverty is the lack of adequate reproductive health care." He said about Kenya: “We are constantly undermining half of our population because we don’t pay proper attention to the care we need to give to women.”
Kimani tells the story of Susan, one of the Kenyan nurses whose life was transformed thanks to IntraHealth training.
View full footage of "IntraHealth: Empowering People for 21st Century:"
"IntraHealth: Empowering People for 21st Century" part 1 |
"IntraHealth: Empowering People for 21st Century" part 2 |
"IntraHealth: Empowering People for 21st Century" part 3 |
In talking about their work in Ethiopia adds IntraHealth to the list of prominent NGOs who perform notable work in obstetric fistula.
[The UNFPA, EngenderHealth, Worldwide Fistula Fund, the Fistula Foundation were previously mentioned in the discussion of "Pursuing the Path to Peace: Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia.]
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