Sherika Joan, a dedicated community health worker in rural Cameroon, delivers essential care to remote villages despite challenges, driven by her personal experience and commitment to helping others.
Driver Vincent Ndi delivers needed medications and helps evacuate people from dangerous areas in northwest Cameroon—even during the rainy season when roads are nearly impassable.
In Cameroon, a youth-led nonprofit is combating period poverty and reproductive health ignorance by providing education and affordable menstrual products to vulnerable girls in rural communities.
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.
‘In Senegal, people with HIV are subject to harsh discrimination. Mothers are hiding. They don’t want to be seen entering this pavilion. They are afraid to go to the pharmacy. They refuse to be followed up in their neighbourhood. As a result, many children living with the disease are not being detected.’