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18 August 2022
Ukraine: Ensuring Life-Saving Tuberculosis Care Amidst Deadly Conflict
A few months after fighting in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine subsided, Zhanna Karpenko shudders during a summer thunderstorm. "Is it thunder or shelling?" she asks. Zhanna is the medical director of a hospital in Chernihiv that provides tuberculosi... -
08 August 2022
Tanzania's First Line of Defense Against Pandemics
Clutching a bag with medical supplies, Nasra Salimu glances at a goat tethered in her compound as if to bid it goodbye. Satisfied with the goat’s food ration for the day, Nasra sets off, walking up a dirt path towards the village center. -
26 July 2022
An HIV Peer Educator Lights a Fuse for Girls in Her Community
One afternoon in May, Neema Waziri walked up a dirt street in Dodoma, Tanzania, her bag brimming with condoms. Neema, 22, a single mother of one, was here to face her past – and her future. -
15 July 2022
Monica From Papua New Guinea Encourages All Women to Know Their HIV Status
Monica encourages everyone in her community to know their HIV status by getting tested regularly. And if HIV positive, she encourages them to stay on their medications. -
21 June 2022
Justin’s Fight: Ensuring Every Young Person Can Access HIV Prevention, Testing and Care
At 16 years old it was incredibly daunting for Justin to tell his parents that he was gay. Both his mother and father were supportive, but worried how their son would be treated. -
02 May 2022
Twelve-year-old Francis’ Heroic Fight Against Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
Twelve-year-old Francis had classmates who used to tease him and call him “TB boy.” It is one of the many painful memories he has of his years-long fight against this deadly yet treatable disease. “We did not give up and now Francis is well,” says Fr...