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In northeast Nigeria, where access to maternal healthcare remains limited, many women still give birth at home, often at great risk. In Muna, a 24/7 maternal health service supported by ALIMA is changing this reality – providing safe deliveries, reducing complications, and saving lives.
About 80 volunteers cared for more than 1,300 patients in communities across the parishes of St. James, Westmoreland, and Hanover in the devastating storm’s aftermath. From Direct Relief
Researchers have identified Treponema bacteria strongly linked to noma, opening the door to earlier diagnosis and treatment. This study was conducted by researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and supported by Médecins Sans Frontières at the Sokoto Noma Hospital in Nigeria.
When polio reappeared in Gaza in 2024 after a 25-year absence, four women working for the Ministry of Health and WHO — navigating bombed roads, displacement, and personal loss — led vaccination campaigns that reached hundreds of thousands of children amid active conflict.
Dr. Paul Law’s Esther Project is racing to immunize children in Sankuru, DRC, as a measles epidemic looms. Now protecting 2,500 children a year, the project is expanding. A remarkable documentary shows exactly what that effort looks like on the ground.
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