Humanitarian Groups Find Increasing Need to Address NCDs Increasing crises in middle income countries prompting new response The current crises in Syria and Venezuela are prompting humanitarian organizations to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and obesity in their responses. Last year, the World Health Organization added diabetes medication
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Children Dying at Unprecedented Rate in Latest Ebola Outbreak Poor conditions at traditional healers considered cause The health ministry of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced over the weekend that children are dying at an unprecedented rate in the latest Ebola outbreak. Officials believe poor sanitary conditions
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PQMD Annual General Meeting 2018 Recap PQMD recently held their 2018 Annual General Meeting in Santa Monica, Calif., with generous support from members International Medical Corps and Amgen. Held at the International Medical Corps offices, members representing the broad spectrum of pharmaceutical, biotech, and non-governmental sectors had
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U.N. Worker Infected as Ebola Crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo Continues The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced last week that a U.N. employee based in Beni tested positive for Ebola. This is the first such incident during
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IMA Leverages Trachoma Program to Treat Other Eye Conditions Fadhili Ally Likunte, 17, joins the crowd gathered in the shade of a tree in the rural village of Kihamba in Tanzania’s Mtwara region. Today IMA World Health and a team of eye surgeons will look into dozens
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Social Media Provides Vital Assistance in Response to Kerala Flooding Response to the flooding in the Southern Indian state of Kerala last month received an unexpected boost – thousands of citizens used social media and mobile technology to organize and mobilize assistance to the disaster. Large organizations
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A Higher Vision With Mercy Ships Dr. Abram Wodome comes from a family of 16 brothers and sisters. Growing up in Togo, West Africa as the youngest child of such a large family, Dr. Wodome’s dream of becoming a doctor seemed financially impossibility. But despite the struggle,
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New Ebola Cases in Democratic Republic of Congo Country declared free of Ebola one week ago On July 24, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo declared the country’s Ebola outbreak in the Equateur province was over. The outbreak was controlled quickly and
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Finding the Right Words to Help Rohingya Refugees The nonprofit Translators Without Borders, in partnership with UNICEF and Oxfam, developed an online glossary resource for aid workers working in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The mobile phone app includes terms and translations into the five languages spoken
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Branding Aid – Helpful or Harmful? Aid groups have long placed their logo on donated goods, hoping to build goodwill with aid recipients and potential donors. These efforts are largely successful, but there are drawbacks. Some argue those logos could be demeaning, serving as a constant reminder
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