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Two emergency response organizations that sent teams to flood-damaged communities in eastern Spain have stayed on to restore buildings and keep residents healthy, supported by Direct Relief grants.
Guinea has achieved a historic milestone by eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem, becoming the first country to conquer this deadly neglected tropical disease with the support of DNDi. In Step 2, read how community trust was built.
Considered the most destructive in California history, the wildfires decimated entire neighborhoods, leaving thousands of people displaced and in distress. From International Medical Corps.
As 93% of eligible children are reached in an outbreak-hit part of Malawi, health workers laud parents for understanding that “the vaccines are life-saving”. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Guinea has achieved a historic milestone by eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem, becoming the first country to conquer this deadly neglected tropical disease with the support of DNDi. In Step 1, read how the tsetse fly was controlled.
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