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Blog February 8, 2017
Managing Menstruation: Debriefing Session with Field Researchers
Adolescent girls face significant challenges while menstruating. In Nepal, menstruation management is made more difficult in contexts where girls have limited access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and in places where they are unable to access adequate sanitary napkins because of financial or supply issues in rural ...
Blog November 12, 2015
Recruitment for Reconstruction: Engaging Engineers for Household Disaster Assessment
HERD International is collaborating with National Planning Commission (NPC), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), The World Bank, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) to implement a National ...
Blog June 6, 2018
Blending film making in research
I was very excited when I heard about the project, Community Arts Against Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal (CARAN). The project is about using participatory approaches particularly film making in the community to understand ...
Blog May 12, 2018
Integrating tobacco cessation in primary health care
Action plans for the development and implementation of locally appropriate tobacco cessation models in primary health care have been drawn up by the member states of the World Health Organization South East Asia Region (WHO SEAR). ...
Blog April 7, 2018
Reengineering Universal Health Coverage
On April 7, 1978, national governments and health and development workers signed the Alma Ata Declaration. The declaration called for urgent action by and the world community to protect and promote the health of all people. Four ...
Blog April 3, 2018
Healthy Living: Let’s walk the talk
Traditionally being fat has always been associated with higher status and a sign of good health.Such a socio-cultural perspective to overweight and obesity has mutated into a global epidemic today with overweight and obesity being ...
Blog April 3, 2018
From quantity to quality
Achieving high quality of care will require strong partnerships among federal, state, and local governments.– KISHORI MAHAT, GHANSHYAM GAUTAM With a nationwide network of public health facilities and a proliferation of private ...
Blog November 14, 2017
Nepal: not an easy place for a girl child to live
Day of the Girl Child 2017 In Nepal, 1 out of 3 adolescent girls marry before 18 years of age.Nepal is 22th country in the world having high number of child marriage.In South Asia, 1 out of 2 adolescent girl gets married ...