Strong health systems are vital to ending AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, responding to emergencies that fuel disease and preparing for future health threats.
Ida Neni Haryanti remembers “falling in love with microscopes” when she first started working in a laboratory.
She also recalls being the first person in Indonesia’s Riau Islands province to collect a COVID-19 specimen.
Salisu and his wife Basira brought their 2-year-old son Maila to the local health center in Sabon-Gari in Kano State, Nigeria, as soon as he showed signs of fever. He started having convulsions and tested positive for malaria.
In Rusesa, a village in Tanzania’s Kigoma region, a group of people – mostly women and children – gather to plan how to confront the neighborhood’s deadliest creature: the mosquito.