Communication Skills, Health Equity Skills, Community Partnership Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills Brian Tolleson Communication Skills, Health Equity Skills, Community Partnership Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills Brian Tolleson

PART 8.2

In Senegal, young girls usually had to go through a painful process deeply embedded in the culture of their society that served no purpose, and had been going on generation after generation. Girls and women were advocating for an end to this practice of female genital cutting. But their pleas were not enough to convince men throughout the country to stop this traditional cultural practice.

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Policy Development and Program Planning Skills, Health Equity Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Management and Finance Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills Brian Tolleson Policy Development and Program Planning Skills, Health Equity Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Management and Finance Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills Brian Tolleson

PART 9.2

Partners in Health (PIH) is a non-profit global health organization established by Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and three colleagues to bring health care to the poorest people in low-income countries. PIH believed that these people deserve healthcare that was as good as the healthcare that rich people in the most advanced countries received. They found that poor people living in a shanty town outside of Lima, Peru had very high rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB), a disease that was notoriously hard to treat.

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