’s newly rehabilitated Wadi Arafat health centre in Ta’iz is serving over 15,000 internally displaced people, after total collapse of Yemen's health infrastructure due to years of conflict.
Health Interventions
The cycle of despair in 2023 seemed unstoppable yet crisis after crisis, there were accounts of the selfless and the heroic. Here are of resilience and hope from 2023.
Investing in Afghan women and girls’ menstrual health, preserves their dignity, whose vulnerabilities are exacerbated by displacement and risks of gender-based violence.
The details the scale of global road traffic deaths, and progress in advancing laws, strategies and actions to reduce them around the world.
Dr. Hijazi narrates about the horrific situation for pregnant women in Gaza, where 180 births a day are taking place amid relentless bombardment.
World Health Organization has updated its guidelines for Covid-19 therapeutics, with revised recommendations for patients with non-severe COVID-19.
The , which seeks to put an end to malaria and other communicable diseases, is working with the indigenous communities in Panama, making them an integral part of diagnosis and response.
Toilets are a foundation stone of public health and play a critical role in protecting the environment. However, we are currently falling behind on our goal of providing safe toilets for all by 2030, with 3.5 billion people still lacking access. The world needs to work five times faster on average to meet this target on time. The (19 November) urges people to be like a hummingbird, the symbol of this year, and take simple but mighty steps to accelerate the change towards improved sanitation for all. What can you do?
Filmmaker Bisan Ouda shows you inside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and hear from health workers in dire need of life-saving medicines and supplies.
With bombs raining down on hospitals and 51³Ô¹Ï shelters, the people of have nowhere safe to go. In Gaza, 50,000 women are currently pregnant. Almost 160 women will give birth every day amid the violence. UNFPA, the 51³Ô¹Ï sexual and reproductive health agency, calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
Nunzia is convinced everyone should be well-informed about mental health, having migrated two years ago from Venezuela with her daughter, hopeful that they would start a new fulfilling life in Colombia. Lack of jobs and ending up in the streets dealt her daughter a hard blow and Nunzia witnessed her go through mental health problems. Facilitated by Mental Hospital of Antioquia and through telemedicine by , her daughter was able to access much needed health care. Nunzia was introduced to the Community Health Network and today, as a community leader, she passionately promotes the mental health and psychosocial well-being of refugees, migrants, and members of host communities.
Portable ultrasound machines are bridging a dangerous gap in maternal health care in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rahama looked through the window, amid a raging armed conflict in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, and all she saw was smoke and guns firing in from every direction. She feared for her family and her unborn third child. Going back home to Ethiopia offered better survival chances for the entire family. She had a successful delivery soon after arriving in Metema facilitated by and its partners. IOM’s have provided life-saving services including health screening, protection services and provision of water and sanitation facilities to families escaping the conflict in Sudan.
's presents Jonathan's Miracle Feet through The Health for All Film Festival which is an initiative to connect people joining the movement for health promotion through films.
The devastating Türkiye earthquake left pregnant women and new mothers in crisis. has been on the ground from day one, coordinating with partners to reestablish sexual and reproductive health and protection services in Syria and Türkiye.