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Trauma Care
© J. WELLS CPI trains locally-led mobile medical teams to diagnose and treat malaria, malnutrition and conflict-related trauma in eastern Myanmar, which has one of the world's highest rates of landmine...
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"No Backup Out There"
© J. WELLS CPI has helped train more than 300 senior medics to triage patients in the field, provide care in village clinics, and following a Training-of-Trainers model, implement their own workshops...
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Health Systems Strengthening
© Andrew Lim Village Health Workers in Myanmar provide vital community health prevention, education and treatment services. In eastern Myanmar, one in seven children die before they reach the age of...
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It Takes a Village Health Worker: The key to healthy communities in eastern...
© KDHW CPI trained and supported Village Health Workers are often the only source of health care in the community. In a Karen village of chickens and woven-thatch homes is “Aunty,” a traditional woman...
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PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION
© J. Wells “In my village in Pa’an district, there aren’t any nurses or clinics. Women can’t access healthcare and some die after delivery. Most children are very thin and suffer low weight because...
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Women and children in Burma: Healthy families = Healthy communities
© KDHW Safe births mean healthier moms and kids, stronger families and communities Women in Burma are disproportionately responsible for raising children, caring for the sick, earning income and...
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The Water Pipe Monk
© CPI In Burma / Myanmar, displaced rural villagers find water, school, food and hope thanks to a cross-cutting community-led project organized by the Water Monk. For hundreds of displaced villagers...
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KDHW: Making Pregnancy and Childbirth Safer in Burma / Myanmar's Conflict Zones
Partner Story Not Featured ©KDHW The MOM Project trains community health workers from Burma / Myanmar's ethnic conflict zones in pre- and postnatal care, sterile deliveries, emergency obstetrics and...
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Against the Odds: Helping Mothers and Babies Survive (CPI Partners, Nov. 2011)
A report on the Mobile Obstetrics Maternal Health Worker (MOM) Project by CPI partner organizations the Burma Medical Association and the Mae Tao ClinicIn eastern Myanmar half a million internally...
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Multi-Level Partnerships to Promote Health (Global Public Health, April 2008)
Ethnic populations in eastern Burma are the target of military policies that result in forced labor, destruction of food supplies, and massive forced displacement. Despite international assistance to...
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