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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Dr. Le, working in Vietnam and the US, has devoted her career to finding better diagnostics and treatments for talaromycosis, a rare and usually fatal fungal disease in HIV-infected people.
A dedicated ASHA worker shares her journey of providing essential healthcare services, donating blood, and advocating for better wages and job security for her fellow workers.
Health workers used to struggle to reach the more than 8,700 eligible kids of Lindi Ward, in Nairobi’s massive Kibra slum, with vaccines. Not anymore. From VaccinesWork
Communal kitchens are assisting hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan’s embattled capital, Khartoum, providing regular meals as well as social and emotional support amid a deepening famine that international aid groups are failing to tackle.
KSrelief, Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian organization, is spearheading a groundbreaking project to provide cochlear implants to nearly 1,000 Syrian refugee children, offering them the gift of hearing and a chance at a better future.
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