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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After losing her mother to AIDS as a child, a young woman teamed up with an American researcher to promote peer-led safe sex education and combat Botswana’s devastating HIV epidemic.
Mobile health clinics from Partners in Health venture into violence-wracked regions of rural Haiti to combat malnutrition and curb high child mortality.
Bringing reconstruction full circle, Mission Plasticos helps underserved survivors rebuild bodies—and lives—after the ravages of breast cancer.
“In total, we provided eye care to 650 individuals. Out of these, fifty will receive some form of eye surgery, with the majority needing cataract surgery.”
More than 330,000 doses of WHO-recommended RTS,S malaria vaccine went to Cameroon, with an additional 1.7 million doses set for delivery to Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone in the coming weeks.
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