Welcome to Angels in Medicine, the site that highlights the work of medical humanitarians: individuals and organizations who alleviate suffering for vulnerable populations.
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When labor becomes life-threatening in rural Tanzania, minutes matter. The m-mama program uses mobile technology and community drivers to get mothers and newborns to hospitals—and it now serves all 63 million Tanzanians.
A single dose of three tablets. No hospital stay. Free to patients. After two decades of collaborative research across Africa and Europe, DNDi and Sanofi have developed a new oral treatment for sleeping sickness that has cleared a major regulatory hurdle. The WHO’s 2030 elimination target now looks achievable.
In Lviv, two extraordinary organizations — Superhumans and Unbroken — have turned the tragedy of 100,000 amputations into a global model for what rehabilitation medicine can be.
Dr. Hadiza Galadanci, an OB-GYN and researcher in Kano, Nigeria, has spent decades confronting one of global health’s most persistent failures: women dying in childbirth from causes doctors already know how to treat.
A doctor in South Kivu Province, DRC, teaches patients about their diabetes. Insulin, cold storage, and other material medical aid from Direct Relief make it possible for patients to effectively manage the disease.
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