The WHO has declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Direct Relief, ALIMA, and International Medical Corps are mobilizing supplies, medical teams, and treatment units, working alongside the WHO, the health ministries of both countries, and partner organizations to contain the spread.
After 150 years of imperfect microscope testing, a portable molecular device now diagnoses tuberculosis in under thirty minutes using sputum or a tongue swab. The World Health Organization has issued its first recommendation for the technology.
When Andisa was growing up in southwestern Uganda, the Twa people lived in forests and mistrusted outsiders – let alone western medicine and vaccines. Today, the health worker is helping to change that. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Families and health leaders say community health workers deserve much of the credit for rising uptake. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Agnes Nambozo, a Ugandan nurse, climbs treacherous mountain ladders to provide vaccines to remote communities, exemplifying how healthcare workers overcome extraordinary geographic barriers to reduce childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.