Success Stories
AIHA’s partnerships and programs have touched countless lives and helped usher in many positive changes in healthcare service delivery since 1992.
Highlights of some of these accomplishments — and the impact our programs have had on health and allied care professionals and the people they serve — can be found in this section.
HIV/AIDS - Twinning Center
- Training and Mentoring Frontline Health Workers in South Africa
- Clinical Associates Play a Critical Role in Providing VMMC Services
- Ethiopia’s St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College Graduates Its First Cohort of OB/GYN Residents
- Pharmacy Technicians Play Key Role in Improving Patient Care
- Helping GBV/VAC Survivors Regain Their Dignity
- Para Social Worker Training an “Eye-opener” for NGO Volunteer
- Public-Private Partnership Improves Access to Evidence-based Resources, Helps Document Clinical Associate Student Practicums
- Biomedical Engineering & Technology Partners Build Sustainable Training Capacity in Ethiopia
- Young Manager Leads Regional Lab Team to WHO 3-Star Rating
- Biomedical Engineering & Technology Partners Build Sustainable Training Capacity in Ethiopia
- Equipping Tanzanian Nursing Professionals with Leadership Skills
- Chalo Changa HIV/AIDS “Lets People Living with HIV Tell Their Own Stories”
- Improving Emergency Medical Services for Pediatric Patients
- Volunteer Introduces Experiment Log Book, Improves Standards of Practice at Addis Ababa University Biochemistry Department
- A Regional Approach to Strengthening Clinical Pharmacy Education in Zambia and Ethiopia
- Arming Mozambican Nurses with Critical Leadership Skills
- Nursing Tutors and Students Highlight Transformations to Nursing Education during HHS Secretary’s Visit to Tanzania
- Improving Access and Understanding of Evidence-based Medicine
- Home-based Care Provides Critical Support to People Living with HIV
- Para Social workers in Enugu State embark on Sensitization Project
- Equipping Tanzanian Nursing Students with Knowledge, Confidence, and Much-needed Clinical Skills
HIV/AIDS - Eurasia
- Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kazakhstan
- Nursing a Russian AIDS Center to Health
- Helping HIV-positive People in Russia Access Care and Support
- Skills-based Medical Training Offers Prospect of a Brighter Future to Ukrainians Living with HIV/AIDS
- Compassionate Care Gives Hope to HIV-positive Woman
- Helping HIV-positive Women Give Birth to Healthy Babies*
Women’s Health
- Tashkent Clinic Offers Hope to Women Battling Cervical Cancer
- Making a Woman’s Dreams of Motherhood Come True
- Early Detection, Prompt Treatment Help Yerevan Woman Survive Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer Education and Outreach Helps Erase Stigma, Gives Armenian Women Hope*
- Skilled Physician Assists with Birth of Miracle Child
- Partnership Changes How Physician Thinks About Doctor-Patient Relationship*
- Full Medical Disclosure Helps Yulia Fight Breast Cancer
- Discarding the “Doctor’s Secret:” Surgeon Forms Partnership with Patients
- A Young Father Takes Part in the Miracle of Birth
- Making Pregnancy and Childbirth a Family Affair*
Neonatal Resuscitation
Primary Healthcare
- Primary Care Initiatives Help Strengthen Turkmenistan’s Health System
- “Healthy Heart” Program Gives Georgian Journalist a New Lease on Life
- Mtskheta Nurse Helps Patients Manage Hypertension*
- Information and Support Help Sakhalin Woman Manage Her Asthma
- Giving Patients the Knowledge They Need to Effectively Manage Asthma*
- Prompt Treatment Helps a Young Girl in Baku
- Bringing Primary Care to Baku’s IDP Community*
- A Mother’s Concern for Her Son’s Health Benefits an Entire Community
- Training and New-found Optimism Lead to Success for A Mid-level Professional and Her Patients*
- Giving a Mother the Tools to Cope with Her Child’s Asthma
- Helping Young Asthma Patients Breathe Easier*
Nursing
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness
- Building a Strong Foundation for Urgent Care Training in Kazakhstan
- Man Impaled by Steel Pipe Saved by Rescue Team
- Specialized Training Gives Rescue Team Life-saving Skills*
- EMSTC Opens Professional Doors to Ambulance Pediatrician
- EMS Training Center Dream Becomes Reality*
- Emergency Training Gives Young Patient the Gift of Life
- Emergency Medical Training Helps Pediatrician Save a Young Life*
Healthy Communities
Information and Communication Technology
- Using Information and Communication Technology to Improve Medical Care
- Computer Training Helps Georgian Nuns Publish Religious Pamphlets
- LRC Resources Transcend Institutional Boundaries*
- Helping a Little Girl Change Her Outlook on Life
- Using Internet Technology to Help Diagnose and Treat a Girl’s Cancer*
Health Management Education
* These stories complement the articles immediately preceding them on the list.