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Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates On a recent trip to Panama to look at innovative health investments, we visited the communities of Carti and Wichub-Huala, in the San Blas Islands archipelago, an autonomous territory of the Kuna Peoples.

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation We recently visited the communities of Narganá and El Tigre, in Panama’s Kuna-Yala Territory. This particular Kuna People’s settlement is located in an archipelago of small islets on Panama’s Caribbean Sea, not far from the border with Colombia, and…

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Until recently philanthropic organizations mainly used two channels to achieve their goals. They could give money to charities aligned to their vision or they could jumpstart the launching of organizations that would carry out their vision.

Fuente: Impatient Optimists A pregnant Kekchi woman arrives, clearly in pain, at a primary health center in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Her trusted midwife accompanied her on the three-hour ride from their village. Julio, a male Nurse’s Aide, receives the two women. He interviews the women in their…

Fuente: Latitude Magazine Latitude Magazine interviewed the Executive Secretary of the SM2015 Initiative, Emma Iriarte, after her talk in the prestigious forum TEDxPanamaCity. In her talk ‘1,000 Days for the Future of a Child’, Emma Iriarte highlighted the Mesoamerican challenges in maternal and…

Fuente: The Economist FROM a swimming pool halfway up Latin America’s tallest skyscraper, tourists and businessmen gaze out towards the fast-expanding fringes of Panama City. Off the Pacific coast, ships line up to enter the Panama Canal, ferrying Christmas presents from China to the east coast of…

Fuente: University of Washington Pregnancy-related infections are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide, with the burden falling disproportionately on low- and middle-income countries. Bundled packages of interventions targeted at these different syndromes should be integrated…

Fuente: BMJ Open Accessible Medical Research A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-income and middle income settings: a mixed methods study.