Prevention and control should be at the center of NCD care to reduce the susceptibility of those at risk and to ensure the healthy remain healthy. – Dr. Bachani. Former Deputy Commissioner of NCDs, Ministry of Health, India According to the World Health...
By: Dr. Shreya Kangovi, Founding Executive Director, Penn Centre for CHWs and Claire Qureshi, Vice President, Frontline Delivery, Office of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Health. Each day, Agnes serves her community in Liberia, supporting pregnant...
We live in extraordinary times. In 1960, 22.2% of all children in developing countries – one out of every five – died before the age of 5. Today, we are within reach of ending preventable child deaths. Across developing countries, when compared with fifty...
In May, the World Health Organization declared Liberia “Ebola free” after forty-two days without new cases. While this was a remarkable milestone, none of us can forget that Ebola killed 4,800 people in Liberia and has already left more than 11,000 dead...
By Dr. Raj Panjabi, MD, MPH (CEO, Last Mile Health) and Dr. Ami Waters, MD (UCSF Global Health Fellow, Last Mile Health) Her white and pink striped shirt draped over her left shoulder like an oversized curtain. As she sat on her mother’s lap, Love stared up at the...
Introduction Over recent years, the world has faced two Ebola outbreaks, a constant threat of pandemic influenza, and now the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. In developing countries, these threats risk exacerbating existing high burdens of communicable...