The Organizations Giving Ukraine’s Amputees Their Lives Back
In Lviv, two extraordinary organizations — Superhumans and Unbroken — have turned the tragedy of 100,000 amputations into a global model for what rehabilitation medicine can be.
In Lviv, two extraordinary organizations — Superhumans and Unbroken — have turned the tragedy of 100,000 amputations into a global model for what rehabilitation medicine can be.
Dr. Hadiza Galadanci, an OB-GYN and researcher in Kano, Nigeria, has spent decades confronting one of global health’s most persistent failures: women dying in childbirth from causes doctors already know how to treat.
A doctor in South Kivu Province, DRC, teaches patients about their diabetes. Insulin, cold storage, and other material medical aid from Direct Relief make it possible for patients to effectively manage the disease.
”My global ophthalmology fellowship with Stanford University and Cure Blindness Project has been filled with remarkable and moving experiences that have given me insights into not only different cultures and effective public health delivery across different settings but also into myself.”
From 3.5 million cases to only 10 worldwide. The Carter Center’s four-decade campaign against Guinea worm is making history. When eradicated, it will be the first disease defeated purely through community action, without a vaccine or medicine.