Health
Lebanon: what happened to health care?
In 2019, there were about 18 million fewer health workers than needed around the world. After two years and 15 million deaths over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, this gap has likely increased dramatically to at least 26 million fewer health workers than we need.
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CARE Nigeria explores digital health campaigning through WhatsApp
Building on pre-existing efforts to engage communities and increase their access to vaccination services, CARE Nigeria developed and launched a chatbot on WhatsApp in 2022 that disseminated early childhood immunization information in an engaging, yet easy-to-use format.
Read MoreFrontline health workers care for all of us. How can we show our care for them?
The best way to celebrate International Women’s Day is to give women – especially women health workers – our support and recognition on this day, and every day throughout the year. In the words of Michelle Obama, “Communities, and countries, and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”
Read More‘It is beautiful work.’ The only doctor in a remote Sudanese village tells her story
Dr. Gisma Awad Hassan Rwah, the only doctor near the Sudanese village of Gorlangbang, navigates the country’s ongoing military conflict in order to treat patients in a mountain-top clinic without electricity and accessible only by donkey.
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