The health care system in Ukraine is bearing a heavy burden from the ongoing war. As hostilities continue into their second month…

Portraits of resilience from health workers and patients in Kyiv, Ukraine — Anastasia, a 24-year-old intern and volunteer, has hardly left Kyiv’s Hospital 17 since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. She and many of her colleagues across Kyiv decided to move into the health facilities where they work to avoid taking long and dangerous trips home across the city.

Farmer Reginald Omulo walks between rows of healthy maize and beans, stopping to admire what he has planted. Like many farmers in Uriri Sub-county, Migori County, Kenya, Omulo used to cultivate tobacco. But no longer. He is now passionate about his family’s shift to grow alternative crops, confident that their…

Here’s a look at how Go.Data has been used, and how the lessons from those experiences are helping countries better prepare for future outbreaks. In the early days of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2018, contact tracer Léa Kanyere spent much of her…

As the war in Ukraine intensifies, hundreds of children with cancer have been forced to flee homes and hospital beds all over the country and undertake dangerous journeys in the hope of reconnecting with the treatments they need to survive. Undergoing chemotherapy treatment for a bladder tumour, 8-year-old Leonid had…

Health workers and volunteers are providing food, medical attention and physical and mental health support to refugees — The central train station in Rzeszów has long been a busy transit point in south-eastern Poland, not far from the border with Ukraine. …

For patients at Novovolynsk Hospital in western Ukraine, the sound of air raid sirens has suddenly become a common reality amid the military offensive in the country. Patients must move from a modern facility above ground to a 1950s-era underground bomb shelter with a rudimentary set-up that can fit up…

Keeping mothers and babies together after birth improves survival rates for babies born early or small — Around the world, 15 million babies are born preterm (before 37 weeks) and 21 million are born low birthweight (under 2.5kg) each year. These infants face significant health risks. Prematurity-related complications are the leading causes of death of newborns and children under 5.

Following decades of positive experience in forecasting and procuring vaccines and supplies from the Revolving Fund, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) aligned with WHO and its partners to implement the COVAX Facility in the Americas. The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented challenge, and COVAX was the best way for…