Health
‘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.
Read MoreUkraine: ‘Every day on the road I was scared the baby would come’
Alone in a dark room. Air alarms and explosions outside. This is the story of 36-year-old Tatiana Yevhenivina, who gave birth to her ninth child while fleeing the war in Ukraine. Just as approximately 80,000 other women who gave birth there in the first three month since the escalation of war, Tatiana was not able to receive maternal health care or deliver her baby safe from fighting.
Read MoreCARE provides lifesaving mobile healthcare to vulnerable Afghans
“I am eight months pregnant, but this is the first time I'm seeing a doctor,” says Belqees*, 28, at a CARE mobile health clinic in Balkh province, northern Afghanistan. Like many women, Belqees either lives too far from a public hospital or cannot afford the transportation costs, and the cost of attending a private clinic puts that option out of reach
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Poverty, hunger, climate change, and COVID-19 threaten millions in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, the situation has deteriorated in recent months as the pandemic, mass displacements, economic collapse, back-to-back droughts, and ongoing hostilities have made it increasingly difficult for people to meet their basic needs, including for food.
Read MoreAs Omicron risk rises, CARE supports COVID-19 vaccine delivery to 126 million people
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 creating unknown risks around the world sadly proves what we have known for a long time: no one is safe until everyone is safe. Investing in getting vaccines to the last mile for 70% of the global population, and paying the health care workers who do it is the only way to end the pandemic. CARE’s Fast and Fair initiative does just that, supporting vaccine delivery i
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