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Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health 101
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
Gender norms influence people's access to and use of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and programming. Health professionals need to understand the relationship between gender and SRH to improve health outcomes. Anyone interested in gaining an introduction to gender ...
Family Planning Programming - Elements of Success
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
Learn the guiding principles that can help family planning professionals create new systems, make improvements to existing platforms, and prepare for future challenges. This course highlights program experiences, best practices, lessons learned, and provides key resources. Course content was adapted ...
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
A violation of women’s fundamental human rights, the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) endangers the physical, psychological, reproductive, and sexual health of women. This course sheds light on FGM/C, its global prevalence rates, and related socio-economic factors such as ...
Family Planning Counseling
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
Counseling is an essential element of family planning (FP) services. This course describes FP counseling and explains its importance. FP providers and FP program managers will particularly benefit from this course. Course content was adapted from USAID's Global Health eLearning Center, ...
Family Planning 101
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
More than 200 million women in the developing world will enter their reproductive years during the next decade. In the future, as in the past, family planning (FP) will help save the lives of countless women and children, and will ...
Essential Newborn Care
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
It is estimated that 34 out of every 1,000 babies born in developing countries die before they reach one month of age. In this course, authors discuss the continuum of care of the newborn which spans antenatal care, labor and birth ...
Diarrheal Disease
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
Take this course to learn the etiology and epidemiology, assessment and classification, treatment and prevention of diarrhea. Program managers will particularly benefit from sessions on program considerations, highlighting information on diarrheal program goals and components, partners, supply chain management, and ...
Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
The course is aimed at those individuals involved in planning for, implementing, and evaluating essential obstetric and newborn care (EONC) programs. EONC encompasses all care that is provided during pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and the postpartum period to prevent and manage ...
Cervical Cancer Prevention (Low - Resource Settings)
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
This course provides general information on cervical cancer. Learn about its growing global burden, and discover effective, low-cost tools available to detect and treat precancerous lesions. The course also contains essential information for planners and managers of cervical cancer programs. ...
Antenatal Care
Course from Global Health eLearning Center
Because birth complications are often unpredictable, having an emergency plan in place can mean the difference between life and death for a mother and her newborn. Read about the effects of anemia, malaria, HIV and syphilis on pregnancy. Delve into ...
Primary Maternal Care
Course from Bettercare
Primary Maternal Care is for midwives and doctors in level 1 hospitals and clinics who provide antenatal and postnatal care, but do not conduct deliveries. It is adapted from theory chapters and skills workshops from [*Maternal Care*](http://bettercare.co.za/books/maternal-care/), and complements the ...
Newborn Care
Course from Bettercare
Newborn Care is for healthcare workers providing special care for newborn infants in level 2 hospitals. It covers resuscitation, assessing size and gestational age, routine care of normal and high-risk infants, hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, jaundice, respiratory distress, infection, trauma, bleeding and ...
Maternal Mental Health
Course from Bettercare
Maternal Mental Health demystifies maternal mental distress and mental illness and provides a clear guide to supporting mental health in the perinatal period. This course equips healthcare workers with the tools they need to provide essential perinatal mental health care. ...
Breast Care
Course from Bettercare
Breast Care is for nurses and doctors who manage the health needs of women from childhood to old age. It covers the assessment and management of benign breast conditions, breast cancer and palliative care.
Birth Defects
Course from Bettercare
Birth Defects is for those who work with patients with birth defects. It covers modes of inheritance, medical genetic counselling, birth defects due to chromosomal abnormalities, single gene defects, teratogens and multifactorial inheritance.
Care of the Cord
Video from Global Health Media Project
This video shows how to care for the cord of the newborn.
Taking a venous blood sample
Video from Global Health Media Project
This video shows how to draw blood from a baby in 3 different ways: with a needle, with a syringe and needle, and with a butterfly.
Eye Infections
Video from Global Health Media Project
This video shows how to identify and manage eye infections in the young baby.
Keeping the Baby Warm
Video from Global Health Media Project
This video shows ways to protect the baby from becoming too cold or too hot during the first days of life.
Examining the Placenta
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film teaches how to examine the placenta for any missing pieces.