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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In a jungle classroom in Myanmar, 21 student nurses recently completed an underground degree program while dodging drones, surviving airstrikes, and studying in near-darkness. Their story is part of a global crisis for health workers in conflict zones.
When local health workers and their civil society allies discovered a group of zero-dose children in a Pakistan village, they made it their mission to get them protected. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
The roll-out will have impact at not just national, but global scale, experts say. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
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.
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