CAPED, a non-profit in India, and dedicated community health workers are fighting cervical cancer taboos to bring life-saving screening and awareness to India’s remote villages, where 70,000 die yearly from this preventable disease.
A small team of health workers from Socios En Salud (Partners in Health in Peru) braved the sweltering Amazon rainforest for 10 days to deliver lifesaving TB testing and care to isolated indigenous communities in Peru’s Loreto region.
Watch the latest video by filmmaker Brooklyn Demme about the work of Amazon Promise in northeast Peru. Narrated by Patty Webster, Founder and President.
Bilingual youth in Knoxville, Tennessee are bridging communication gaps between Latino patients and doctors through a nonprofit medical interpreter training program funded by Direct Relief, improving health access and outcomes.
UC Davis ophthalmologists recently volunteered aboard Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital, bringing sight-saving surgeries and training to underserved communities in Zambia. By teaching complex techniques to local doctors, they empower specialists to treat preventable blindness long after their two-week mission ends.
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