Global Health TV

IRD has partnered with Global Health TV, which is produced by the Global Health Council and WebsEdge, on a five minute film clip regarding the Women First program in Mozambique. Women First is being implemented in partnership with World Vision through funding by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Women First is a unique program facilitating women in Zambezia province in northern Mozambique to set up their own businesses and deliver health messages to their communities. In a country devastated by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, this project is empowering vulnerable women who are often socially and economically excluded.

The film clip focuses on two women's groups ("mola" and "pededge"), both of which are in the district of Nicoadala, about 35 km from Quelimate City. Themos Ntasis, founder of Women's First, and now the director of IRD's programs in Zimbabwe, introduces the project. The film also features: Stella Carina, a line coordinator for IRD who provides health and business training to more than 200 women entrepreneurs; Aninha Fonseca and Juliana Cebola, two of the project beneficiaries: and Mansur Ibrahim, a wholesaler involved with the project.

The IRD piece is being screened at two major global health conferences in June 2010: Women Deliver (June 7-9) and the Global Health Council Conference (GHC) (June 14-18). Women Deliver is the leading global event for maternal and reproductive health - www.womendeliver.org. The GHC Conference promotes global efforts to saving lives by improving health throughout the world; this year' conference focuses on the importance of sound monitoring and evaluation - www.globalhealth.org. The clip will also be streamed and hosted online on Global Health TV - www.globalhealthtv.com - a dedicated digital channel for a full year after the conferences.

Of course, it's available on the IRD TV, on the IRD website, as well as our new YouTube Channel, irdvoices. Please check them both out, and stop by IRD's booth at the Women Deliver and Global Health Council Conference to tell us that you did.

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