Global Communities is a powerhouse for humanitarian assistance and crisis relief — and we’re dedicated to enhancing health equity and sustainable development worldwide. IntraHealth is a longtime pioneer in solving global health challenges by focusing on health systems and the people who drive them — health workers. In 2024, we combined, making IntraHealth a subsidiary of Global Communities. Together, we take a holistic approach to global health.
What We Do
- Local capacity strengthening
- Health emergencies & resiliency
- Digital health & data science
- HIV, TB, malaria, COVID-19 & other infectious diseases
- Health workforce development
- Health systems strengthening
- Water, sanitation & hygiene
- Maternal, newborn & child health
- Nutrition
- Family planning & reproductive health
- Community health
- Chronic & noncommunicable diseases
- Global health security
Unified, Holistic Approaches for Global Health Impact
Local Capacity Strengthening
We believe development is most effective when it's locally owned and locally led. In 2023, IntraHealth began transforming its structure and functions to place support services closer to its programs, moving the nexus of decision-making power closer to the communities where programs are being implemented. Regional hubs now support in-country operations throughout West Africa, East and Southern Africa, and Central America. These hubs are led by regional experts who recruit and build local expertise. This approach helps Global Communities and IntraHealth serve as key partners to ministries of health and local organizations as they grow and sustain their health outcomes beyond donor programs.
Digital Health & Data Science
From mobile apps to management software and eLearning, we offer health workers and decision-makers the tools and technology they need to do their very best work. Our solutions are open source, data-driven and collaborative. We support governments and local partners to build a culture of data use and the sustained capacity to run their own systems for health workforce management, district health information, emergency communications, patient records and more. Our data science approaches — including powerful dashboards and geospatial modeling — are designed to deliver stronger program performance, taking funding further and making sustainable change go beyond the targets.
Health Emergencies & Resiliency
We work with communities around the world to build resilience to shocks and stresses of all kinds, including those caused by conflict, migration and natural disasters magnified by climate change. Together, Global Communities and IntraHealth now offer stronger capabilities than ever to respond to health emergencies and strengthen the resiliency of health systems so they can adapt to changing contexts, recover from crises, and prepare and respond to future emergencies, conflicts and natural disasters. We adopt multisectoral approaches to address intersecting health challenges, such as pandemics and epidemics, infectious and non-communicable diseases, and the consequences of rapid urbanization and climate change.
Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Reproductive Health & Family Planning
Our maternal, newborn and child health, reproductive health and family planning programs strengthen health systems to equitably deliver high-impact interventions with quality respectful care, increase community demand for quality services, promote healthy practices, and strengthen health leadership and governance for stronger health systems.
Our community-driven and family- and person-centered strategies are grounded in and continue to evolve alongside evidence of best practices and the needs of the communities we partner with. We strive for a multi-sectoral and life-course approach through a robust primary health care system to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies.
Adolescent Health
Grounded in positive youth development, our adolescent health projects help to realize the rights of adolescents by investing in their health, development and well-being to ease the transition to adulthood. Our programs reduce rates of HIV among adolescent girls, provide psychosocial support for youth in conflict-afflicted regions, support first-time parents, aim to end child marriage and support youth in continuing their education so they reach their fullest potential.
Nutrition
Our nutrition initiatives address the immediate, direct determinants of maternal and child nutrition with evidence-based approaches that are integrated or bundled with one another, tailored to the local context, and delivered through local health, food and education systems and structures.
We implement a broad range of evidence-based nutrition-sensitive interventions that indirectly impact nutrition outcomes, address underlying and systemic causes of malnutrition that influence outcomes related to food, health and care, with the potential to enhance nutrition-specific interventions' coverage and effectiveness.
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Access to clean water and safe sanitation is a matter of life and death for the hundreds of thousands of young children each year who face diarrheal diseases and long-term health consequences like stunting and undernutrition that are directly linked to open defecation. In addition, the health effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic have been further magnified for the millions of families who lack basic hand-washing facilities, soap or water at home.
We are committed to advancing the goal of universal access to clean water and sanitation. Our work includes helping build strong local systems that link communities and households to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services.
HIV/AIDS & Infectious Disease
We’re committed to achieving an AIDS-free generation by 2030 — and we believe health workers are the key to making this vision a reality. In partnership with communities, local entities and governments, our programs:
- Scale-up client-centered interventions to identify people living with HIV and make treatment services more accessible, retain clients in care, and maintain viral suppression.
- Optimize use of digital solutions and data for continuous quality improvement and effective targeting of program resources.
- Strengthen health workforces to meet national HIV/AIDS goals and targets.
- Build the capacity of local organizations in support of PEPFAR’s goal of transitioning its funding to local partners.
Our work in this area reaches:
Resources
Briefs & Case Studies
Addressing Sanitation Market Challenges
Through the Enhancing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (En-WASH) program, USAID Ghana is helping to increase access to sustainable and affordable sanitation in six regions of northern Ghana by identifying solutions to motivate the private sector to work towards closing the service delivery gap.
Research & Publications
Using Behavioral Change Communications Intervention to Create Demand and Enhance PrEP Uptake in South Sudan
This poster, presented in 2024 at the 25th International AIDS Conference by IntraHealth International – Global Communities’ subsidiary – presents the results of a behavioral change communication strategy aimed at increasing the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in South Sudan. Main finding. PrEP uptake in South Sudan increased three-folds in one year, from zero in…
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Testing Outcomes of HIV-Exposed Infants (HEI) in Botswana
This poster, presented in 2024 at the 25th International AIDS Conference by Global Communities, showcases the results of a study on early infant diagnosis in Botswana. Main finding. Testing rates for HEI are high in Botswana and the uptake of testing is growing; however, mothers do not fully comprehend the HEI testing protocols. Key takeaway.…
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From Policy to Practice: The HIV Care and Treatment Project’s Experiences in Transitioning to an Optimized Regimen in Honduras
This poster, presented in 2024 at the 25th International AIDS Conference by IntraHealth International – Global Communities’ subsidiary – highlights the results of capacity strengthening interventions aimed at ensuring effective implementation of the national plan to transition to an optimized HIV treatment regimen in Honduras. Main finding. Transition of regimens represents a logistical challenge to…
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Exploring Health Provider Knowledge of the Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) Concept in Central America
This poster, presented in 2024 at the 25th International AIDS Conference by IntraHealth International – Global Communities’ subsidiary – highlights the results of an exploratory survey about the knowledge and opinions of health providers in Central America on the Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) concept. Main finding. Health providers believe that the U=U message can benefit…
