How Displacement and Poverty Create Health Risks in Bangladesh
SEATTLE — Bangladesh is the tenth most densely populated country in the world, with a…
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Efforts to Improve Mortality Rates and Maternal Healthcare in Brazil
SEATTLE — In Brazil, access to healthcare before, during and after giving birth is a…
Investing in Healthcare: A Key to Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
SEATTLE — On the path to promoting the third of the 17 Sustainable Development Goal…
Improvements Seen in Child and Maternal Health in Angola
SEATTLE – For 27 years—from the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975 until 2002—civil…
How Mobile Clinics in Tanzania Are Making a Difference
SEATTLE — The average Tanzanian is expected to live for about 65 years. This is…
Efforts to Contain the Nipah Virus Outbreak in India
SEATTLE — The Nipah virus (NiV) is considered a pandemic, epidemic disease. Similar to Ebola,…
Progress and Challenges in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Vietnam
SEATTLE — The rate of new HIV/AIDS infections in Vietnam peaked in 2002, when an…
Amazon Promise Improving Health in Iquitos, Peru
SEATTLE — Iquitos is a city in northeastern Peru, reachable only via water, air or…
Two Healthcare Pioneers Transform the Lives of the Poor in India
SEATTLE — Very few people have the courage to give up a comfortable life to…
Solving the Sanitation Crisis in India
SEATTLE — Sanitation is described by UNICEF as a comprehensive term referring to “interventions that…