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Fanose Hirreno has been a health extension worker in the Koka region of Ethiopia for 18 years. She spends three days a week providing door-to-door care and two days supporting patients at her local community health post. Launched in 2003, Ethiopia’s ...
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Communities across West Africa continue to face old and new infectious disease threats, including waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid, viral hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, Lassa fever and yellow fever, and new emerging threats like mpox. The...
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As a community health mobilizer, Rowida played a vital role in a recent campaign to distribute millions of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect communities from malaria in Sudan. Rowida spoke to families in the town of Damazine, Blue Nile Sta...
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After nearly three decades in public health logistics, Usman Sani knows that every delivery he manages could be the difference between life and death. Usman and his colleagues were recently stationed at a warehouse in Ungwan Muazu in Kaduna State, Ni...
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Eleven years ago, when Medihenit Angasu went into labor at home and eventually needed an emergency cesarean section, Aberu Birbirsa never left her side. “She went (to the hospital) with us that night, and when I entered the theater room, she said sh...
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In the heart of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau’s capital city, Cunna Mendes holds a medical cooler filled with biological samples. These were collected from patients showing signs of fever and respiratory distress on the remote island of Bolama, located sever...
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At a community hall in the Chilenje neighborhood of Lusaka, Zambia, the sound of singing rises above the noise of the bustling city. A group of young women sit in a circle. They call themselves the “Pink Girls” — a sisterhood of strength, resilience ...
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, while most people were under lockdown, Dr. Revathy Arushothy was heading into the laboratory – working around the clock to help keep her country safe. “Our laboratories were working 24/7,” says the microbiologi...
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Fighting deadly infectious diseases is in all our interests
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Artemisinin is a powerful antimalarial drug – a key ingredient in medicines that cure malaria quickly and save millions of lives. But in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region – Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, Thailand and ...