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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After wildfires ravaged Maui, local health providers without previous emergency response experience, mobilized to aid survivors, leveraging community trust and blending traditional Hawaiian healing with Western medicine in the recovery.
A new study from Public Health Scotland found no cervical cancer cases in fully vaccinated women following HPV immunization at age 12-13 since the program started in Scotland in 2008.
UNFPA trains and supports midwives around the globe and, when necessary, dispatches them to emergencies. Rahna was one of eight midwives that UNFPA sent to Herat as part of a contingent of five mobile health teams, which have been offering medical care, psychosocial support, and sexual and reproductive health services to those affected by the quake.
In remote rural villages, difficulties in reaching health services and trained health staff are life-threatening for mothers and their infants. A two-year diploma programme supported by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is helping to change that.
The grisly parasitic disease has been reduced by 99.99% since eradication efforts began and is poised to become the second human disease and the first parasitic disease eradicated in history.
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