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Feature Stories
Filling the Health Care Gap
31 October 2017“Losing a child to malaria is every parent’s nightmare,” says Maïmouna, a mother of 4, who remembers the hopeless nights and tragedies that have forever marked her neighbors. In communities across Senegal, volunteers are rising as agents of their own...
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Feature Stories
TB Heroes of the Hinterlands
09 October 2017The hunt for an unconventional killer calls for unconventional measures. Tuberculosis, a disease that hides in plain sight, has infected 2 billion people. Every year, more than 10 million of these people develop active TB and fall sick – and every ye...
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Feature Stories
HIV Prevention Through RISE Young Women's Clubs in South Africa
15 June 2017In 2015 alone, 100,000 South African girls aged 15-24 were infected with HIV, compared with 42,000 boys. Soul City Institute for Social Justice created RISE Young Women's Clubs to help shrink these catastrophic numbers.
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Feature Stories
The Edge of Elimination
24 April 2017You won’t find the village of Bus Saam on most maps. Nor the earthen tracks that lead to this collection of wooden homes surrounded by sorghum and rice fields in western Cambodia. When the rainy season comes and dissolves the dirt roads into deep, st...
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Feature Stories
“This needs to stop”: Gender-based Violence in Cape Town
04 April 2017“When the rape occurred, I just thought that my whole world was falling apart. Everything was just going downhill for me,” says Samara, a poised, soft-spoken working mother of three. “I realized I wasn’t going to be able to cope with this alone.”
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Feature Stories
World TB Day: Tracking a Contagion
20 March 2017How do you stop lethal bacteria from devastating the most vulnerable communities? On World TB Day, we shine a light on urgent efforts needed to find the “missing cases” of tuberculosis – millions of people that go undiagnosed, untreated or unreported...