MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

During the growth monitoring process, health extension workers record and compare an infant's weight information from the previous record on the growth chart at a Chancho Buba health post in Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) on a variety of health system strengthening interventions. These include training and capacity building for health extension workers, developing and implementing strategies to administer immunizations and HIV testing services and treatment, and improving service delivery. JSI’s work supports the long-term development of primary health care in Ethiopia at all levels to improve the health of people across the country.

Health Management Information System (HMIS) uses health information to improve service delivery within specific administrative areas and contributes to the creation of an enabling environment that supports a culture of information use at health center and woreda levels, and contributes towards improvement in decision making for better health services management.

Photo by Shahzad Noorani

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

During a door-to-door visit, a health extension worker uses a flip-chart for health education in Chancho Buba neighbourhood, Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) on a variety of health system strengthening interventions. These include training and capacity building for health extension workers, developing and implementing strategies to administer immunizations and HIV testing services and treatment, and improving service delivery. JSI’s work supports the long-term development of primary health care in Ethiopia at all levels to improve the health of people across the country.

The Health Management Information System (HMIS) uses health information to improve service delivery within specific administrative areas and contributes to the creation of an enabling environment that supports a culture of information use at the health center and woreda levels, and contributes towards improvement in decision making for better health services management.

Photo by Shahzad Noorani

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

Nach einer Idee und moderiert von Yvonne Falckner findet in Berlin Friedrichshain der dritte CareSlam zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen im Gesundheitsbereich statt. In Anlehnung an das Konzept des Poetry Slams berichten Betroffene von ihrer Situation, den Arbeitsbedingungen im deutschen Gesundheitssystem, sowie deren Auswirkungen auf ihr eigenes Leben.

"Im schmalen Grad zwischen Grundpflege und Behandlungspflege werden sie von den wahren Tugenden des Pflegeberufes berichten, um der nichtpflegenden Gesellschaft, einen Einblick in das wahre Leben und Können von Pflegekräften zu geben.", so die Veranstalter. Zudem wollen sie "Pflegekräften eine Bühne zu bieten, damit diese über ihren vielseitigen Beruf und ihre Pflegepersönlichkeit berichten können, um die nichtpflegende Gesellschaft für das wichtige Thema einer guten Pflege- und Gesundheitsversorgung zu sensibilisieren."

Ein emotionaler Höhepunkt war die Verabschiedung, von Mona Löffler-Jahraus, die zu den Gründerinnen des CareSlams gehört und sich aus gesundheitlichen Gründen zurückzieht.

Schirmherr der Veranstaltungsreihe ist Prof. Dr. rer. cur. Michael Bossle.

Auf der Bühne steht auch Andreas Westerfellhaus, Präsident des Deutschen Pflegerats e.V., der engagiert eine Neuausrichtung der Pflegepolitik fordert und zudem auch die Pflegenden selbst zu einem größeren Selbstbewusstsein und dem Eintreten für ihre Belange ermuntert. Am Ende seines Auftritts wird eine Rede von ihm, in der er Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit geißelt, eingespielt. Während der Einspielung bauen er und Yvonne Falckner symbolisch ein Zelt, wie sie z.B. in Idomeni zu tausenden in Verwendung sind, ab, um Geflüchtete willkommen zu heißen. Im Bild: Eva- Maria Endruweit, examinierte Krankenschwester, Pflegelehrerin und Pflegemanagerin mit ihrem

Slam: „Pflegeplanung Note 6-! Durchgefallen, Herr Gröhe!“.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

Zainab Fofanah, Mommy Queen of Juba Mi Room, outside her community health post in Freetown, Sierra Leone on March 29, 2017. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn for JSI)

Nach einer Idee und moderiert von Yvonne Falckner findet in Berlin Friedrichshain der dritte CareSlam zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen im Gesundheitsbereich statt. In Anlehnung an das Konzept des Poetry Slams berichten Betroffene von ihrer Situation, den Arbeitsbedingungen im deutschen Gesundheitssystem, sowie deren Auswirkungen auf ihr eigenes Leben.

"Im schmalen Grad zwischen Grundpflege und Behandlungspflege werden sie von den wahren Tugenden des Pflegeberufes berichten, um der nichtpflegenden Gesellschaft, einen Einblick in das wahre Leben und Können von Pflegekräften zu geben.", so die Veranstalter. Zudem wollen sie "Pflegekräften eine Bühne zu bieten, damit diese über ihren vielseitigen Beruf und ihre Pflegepersönlichkeit berichten können, um die nichtpflegende Gesellschaft für das wichtige Thema einer guten Pflege- und Gesundheitsversorgung zu sensibilisieren."

Ein emotionaler Höhepunkt war die Verabschiedung, von Mona Löffler-Jahraus, die zu den Gründerinnen des CareSlams gehört und sich aus gesundheitlichen Gründen zurückzieht.

Schirmherr der Veranstaltungsreihe ist Prof. Dr. rer. cur. Michael Bossle.

Auf der Bühne steht auch Andreas Westerfellhaus, Präsident des Deutschen Pflegerats e.V., der engagiert eine Neuausrichtung der Pflegepolitik fordert und zudem auch die Pflegenden selbst zu einem größeren Selbstbewusstsein und dem Eintreten für ihre Belange ermuntert. Am Ende seines Auftritts wird eine Rede von ihm, in der er Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit geißelt, eingespielt. Während der Einspielung bauen er und Yvonne Falckner symbolisch ein Zelt, wie sie z.B. in Idomeni zu tausenden in Verwendung sind, ab, um Geflüchtete willkommen zu heißen. Im Bild: Yvonne Falckner und Andreas Westerfellhaus.

No pre-race jitters.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

This maternal and child health post in the community of Metchem, in Western Area Rural District, Freetown, Sierra Leone, was rehabilitated with support from USAID and handed back to local officials by project partners Advancing Partners & Communities and Save the Children during a ceremony on March 28, 2017. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn for JSI)

Zainab Jalloh, holding her one-year-old daughter Khadijatu, at the Gbanti Community Health Post (CHP) on April 3, 2017 in Bombali District, Sierra Leone. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn for JSI)

MMB joined Children’s National Health System President and CEO Kurt Newman M.D. to make an announcement related to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in Ward 4.

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

Zum sechsten Mal findet die erfolgreiche Reihe von Veranstaltungen mit Angehörigen von Pflege- und diesen verwandten Berufen statt. Die Veranstaltungsreihe, die politische Äußerung mit künstlerischer Darbietung verbindet möchte auf die katastrophale Situation der Pflege in Deutschland aufmerksam machen.

Veranstaltungsort ist das Kulturhaus Alte Feuerwache in Berlin Friedrichshain. Dieses war nahezu ausverkauft.

Das Konzept ist an das des Poetry Slams angelegt. Alle Auftretenden haben rund zehn Minuten Zeit für ihren Slam. Jedoch gibt es keinen Wettbewerb, das gemeinsame wird betont, es findet kein Wettkampf statt.

Der Abend beginnt mit Yvonne Falckners Auftritt als dementer Vampir und der damit ergebenen Überleitung zu Florian Eichhorn, Autor des gleichnamigen Buches. Mit seinem Slam "Nur mal kurz - ein kurzer Einblick in den Pflege-Alltag" gibt er einen humorvollen Einblick in Nöte des Pflegepersonals.

Ihm folgt Stefan Schulz, der mit seinem Slam "Drinnen ist draußen" das schwierige Thema Forensik und den Umgang mit strafunmündigen Tätern im Alltag kraftvoll und emotional darstellt.

Annett Metzenthins Slam "Make Pflege not war" wirft einen Blick auf die Pflege durch Angehörige und ist ein Aufruf zum Miteinander, anstatt des Gegeneinanders mit professioneller Pflege.

Die erste Halbzeit des CareSlams endet mit der Sängerin Elisabeth Schwarz und ihren Lied "Kind. Mutter. Mensch.", welches das Leben eines alten Menschens im Heim gefühlvoll thematisiert.

Auftakt der zweiten Hälfte ist Jörg Richert von KARUNA mit zwei ehemaligen Straßenkindern. Jörg Richert tritt in seinem Slam ""Suchen tut mich keiner..." Straßenkinder in Deutschland" für ein Umdenken im Umgang mit den Betroffenen ein und vor allem dafür, dass diese vermehrt einbezogen werden. Michi und Chris tragen zudem Gedichte von ehemaligen Straßenkindern vor.

Der nächste Slam berührt das Tabuthema Tod und den Umgang mit Kindern, die tot geboren sind oder in kürzester Zeit sterben werden. Der Fotograf Kai Gebel fotografiert zusammen mit einem Netzwerk von rund 600 weiteren Fotografen in Deutschland und Österreich diese "Sternenkinder" und verschafft somit den Eltern die Möglichkeit einer bleibenden Erinnerung. "Vom ersten und letzten Bild" handelt sein Slam.

Mit den STUBI Cops Franziska Behrenbeck, Claudia Fröhlich und Lena Herbrandt betritt der Nachwuchs in Form von Studentinnen die Bühne und stellt ihren Slam "Die Reise ins Unbekannte" vor.

Ihnen folgt Roger Konrad der auf den Pflegeaktionstag am 12. Mai 2017 hinweist.

Den Abschluss des CareSlams bildet ein zweiter Auftritt von Elisabeth Schwarz mit ihrem Lied "Zeitlos".

Danach betreten nochmal alle Beteiligten die Bühne.

Matthew Maada Moiba, the in charge and a state-enrolled community health nurse (SECHN), outside his community health post in Juba Mi Room, Freetown, Sierra Leone on March 29, 2017. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn for JSI)

Partners of the regional Amazon Malaria Initiative help ensure those at risk have access to diagnosis and treatment of this neglected vector-borne disease

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

The 2016 edition of our annual Sick or Treat Charity Ball was held on October 28 at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney!

It was a spectacular night and a fantastic end to our wonderful Sick or Treat campaign which ran all of October! Every year in Australia there are over 42,000 diagnoses of rare or less common cancers and around 24,000 deaths, but with your help we can change this and make sure people fighting rare cancers have access to the drugs and treatment they need.

You can find out more about the work that Sick or Treat supports at www.rarecancers.org.au and make a donation yourself here: www.sickortreat.org.au/donations

An infant lies in her mother's lap at a Chancho Buba health post in Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) on a variety of health system strengthening interventions. These include training and capacity building for health extension workers, developing and implementing strategies to administer immunizations and HIV testing services and treatment, and improving service delivery. JSI’s work supports the long-term development of primary health care in Ethiopia at all levels to improve the health of people across the country.

Health Management Information System (HMIS) uses health information to improve service delivery within specific administrative areas and contributes to the creation of an enabling environment that supports a culture of information use at health center and woreda levels, and contributes towards improvement in decision making for better health services management.

Photo by Shahzad Noorani

Margaret Fofanah, a nurse at the Sussex maternal and child health post (MCHP) in Western Area Rural, Freetown, Sierra Leone on March 30, 2017. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn for JSI)

Tesfu Negasa (left), Zonal HMIS Office, looks at a Master Family Index (MFI) while health team members explain how they maintain health information at a Chancho Buba Health Post in Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) on a variety of health system strengthening interventions. These include training and capacity building for health extension workers, developing and implementing strategies to administer immunizations and HIV testing services and treatment, and improving service delivery. JSI’s work supports the long-term development of primary health care in Ethiopia at all levels to improve the health of people across the country.

Health Management Information System (HMIS) uses health information to improve service delivery within specific administrative areas and contributes to the creation of an enabling environment that supports a culture of information use at health center and woreda levels, and contributes towards improvement in decision making for better health services management.

Photo by Shahzad Noorani

Mbalu Kamara, Officer in Charge (OIC) and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Aid, stands for a portrait at Magbafth Maternal and Child Health Post (MCHP) in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone on April 5, 2017. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn for JSI)

Tesfu Negasa (left), Zonal HMIS Office, looks at health cards from tickler file boxes as health team members explain how they maintain health information,at a Chancho Buba Health Post in Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) on a variety of health system strengthening interventions. These include training and capacity building for health extension workers, developing and implementing strategies to administer immunizations and HIV testing services and treatment, and improving service delivery. JSI’s work supports the long-term development of primary health care in Ethiopia at all levels to improve the health of people across the country.

Health Management Information System (HMIS) uses health information to improve service delivery within specific administrative areas and contributes to the creation of an enabling environment that supports a culture of information use at health center and woreda levels, and contributes towards improvement in decision making for better health services management.

Photo by Shahzad Noorani