In Niono, amidst insecurity and displacement, ALIMA and its partner AMCP-SP provide primary healthcare and nutrition support. From mobile clinics to displacement sites, their work brings hope to women, young mothers, and children affected by malnutrition.
Since the pandemic caused immunisation rates to plunge, diphtheria cases have spiked in Nigeria. Health workers like Maryam Umar are racing to bring the population’s immune defences back up to par. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Breast and cervical cancers account for nearly a third of all cancer diagnoses in Bangladeshi women – and mortality rates have been way higher than Dr Habibullah Talukder Ruskin is willing to accept. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Guinea has achieved a historic milestone by eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem, becoming the first country to conquer this deadly neglected tropical disease with the support of DNDi. In Step 4, read about going the last mile.
Emergency medical brigades carried Direct Relief backpacks to people fleeing the Volcán de Fuego’s two eruptions in three months, often diagnosing them in the field and providing pre-hospital care.
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