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Circling the Globe
NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING with Jhpiego Jhpiego-trained nurse
Khauhelo Monaheng,
26 (far right), exuded
both confidence and
competence when
he met Sister Maria
Fatima Rakuoane, 96,
admitted to Lesotho’s
Berea Hospital with
COVID-19. “She needed a lot
of attention because she could
not do much on her own,” says
Monaheng, whose compassionate
persistence finally won the faith of the
nun 70 years his senior (Polo Matlalane
Snapshots of difference- Motsoari/Jhpiego).

making nurses and midwives

the world over

While so much of the world rightly focuses on
COVID-19, the need for nurse leadership on
malaria, cancer, HIV, childbirth, and aging—as
well as coronavirus—continues in each of the 41
countries served by Jhpiego, an affiliate of the
Johns Hopkins University.
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These pages feature a glimpse at a few of
the places where Jhpiego, a global health
organization led by a nurse in its CEO and Nurse Masiele Motlalepula
President Leslie Mancuso, has been making a instructs women at Nkoyaphiri
difference. Clinic in Gabarone, Botswana
on how to self-collect their own
specimens, and explains an
Read more about the lives in innovative screening strategy
Asia, Africa, Europe, and the for cervical cancer (Kate Holt/
Americas touched by Jhpiego at Jhpiego).
JHPIEGO.ORG/STORIES.

JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING FALL/WINTER 2020
From top: Sarita Yadav, a staff nurse at
Jankipuram Urban Primary Health Care
Center in Uttar Pradesh, India, urges
women to visit her at the local facility for
clinical breast exams if they notice any
abnormality—such as pain or a mass
(Tanushree Sharma/Jhpiego); staff nurse
Madhuri Pawar screens a pregnant client
in the gestational diabetes mellitus clinic
at Betul District Hospital in India (India/
Jhpiego); Community Health Officer Nurse midwife Beatrice Bwaize celebrates a healthy
Gertrude Doku, a nurse at Ghana’s Tinkong delivery at Chato health facility in Geita, Tanzania. Dotto
CHPS Compound, shares the results of a Wilson, a mother of six, survived a life-threatening
Rapid Diagnostic Test for malaria with a client childbirth complication thanks to Bwaize’s decision-
(Emmanuel Attramah/PMI-Impact Malaria). making and care (Frank Kimaro/Jhpiego).