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Blog March 21, 2022
Introducing Pokhara Metropolitan City: The urban poor and the local health system
HERD International is a partner in the CHORUS research consortium. We are implementing a study in Pokhara Municipality of Nepal to understand the local health system, and we aim to contribute to its strengthening, so it can address the health needs of the urban poor communities. The study will specifically focus on the ...
Blog November 18, 2021
Antimicrobial resistance: How it is threatening public health? What should be done?
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a critical emergency public health issue that has threatened the achievements made till today in the medicine sector. Antimicrobial resistance takes place when bacteria, fungi, viruses change over time and become unable to respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the ...
Blog July 25, 2021
The Rising Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal: Problems and Prospects for Health System
Recently, on behalf of HERD International, I got an opportunity to participate in the Seventh Virtual National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal held on 1-2 July 2021. The theme of the summit was ‘Research in Public Health Emergencies: Evidence to Policy and Action’. The Nepal Health Research Council ...
Blog December 23, 2022
Awareness: A Key to Address Antimicrobial Resistance
HERD International has long been working on multiple studies on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Everyone’s contribution counts toward tackling the drivers of AMR because it has become a major public health threat to the world ...
Blog December 5, 2022
Antimicrobial awareness: Community engagement is a key
Antimicrobials are used to treat the majority of bacterial illnesses. This may change in the upcoming years since diseases are evolving defenses against antimicrobials. As a result, when an antimicrobial treatment is initiated, it ...
Blog November 3, 2022
Urban slum life hit by poverty and tragedy
Our team, as part of making the video documentary, visited a slum area located in Pokhara City, located near the airport. We also visited the weekly clinic conducted by one of the health facilities offering services to the ...
Blog August 9, 2022
Experience of Pilot Testing – Virtual Nutrition Counselling to Pregnant Women in Kapilvastu
In the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, HERDi conducted a randomized control trial testing a virtual nutrition counseling intervention for Pregnant Women (PW) in the Kapilvastu district. Such intervention, if found effective, ...
Blog July 25, 2022
Costs of climate change on women’s lives
“I carry more water than I actually can. It’s more important to fetch water than to listen to my body,” Kamala Devi Pathak of Salyantar (Dhading) shares her hardships in the documentary film, “The Weight of Water: The ...
Blog July 11, 2022
Imagining a world without pandemic
Pandemics are unpredictable. It is hard to forecast when the next one will strike. Pandemics can start in any place in the world where animals and people are in close proximity, as pathogens can spread from an animal to a human who ...