Welcome to Angels in Medicine, the site that highlights the work of medical humanitarians: individuals and organizations who alleviate suffering for vulnerable populations.
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Medical supplies depart for local group Mountain Heart Nepal, and include aid to treat waterborne illnesses, dehydration, chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma, and more. Other groups receiving emergency funds include Shanti Foundation and One Heart Worldwide.
Nearly four million women who’ve missed screening invitations will be offered free HPV self-testing swabs to complete at home, part of NHS England’s push to increase screening and eliminate cervical cancer entirely by 2040.
By sending doctors to small-town clinics for just one week at a time, Médecins Solidaires is helping to remedy the country’s “medical deserts.” From Reasons to Be Cheerful
Last Mile Health trains and pays community health workers who reach isolated villages in Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone, bringing basic medical care to communities that once had none. They have now received the world’s largest annual award to a nonprofit.
For four years, Carlota, a community health worker in Nawitela-Namuli, Mozambique, has built trust door to door. Through VillageReach’s Bate-Papo project, she helped bring the community its first mobile health brigade, closing the distance to routine childhood immunization.
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