How six months of working with communities is helping to control the virus —

How a civil society organization in Kyrgyzstan provided a lifeline for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic — Seventy-year-old Valentina Podgaichenko, a regular visitor to a care centre for older people in Balykchy, Kyrgyzstan, found COVID-19 quarantine tough. At the beginning of the pandemic she was isolated and missed her children. Her normal contact with health services was disrupted and reliable information was hard to come by.

Mohammed Hassan gets really excited about garbage. On a recent visit to Omar Ibn Khatab Primary Health Centre in Khartoum, Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO) infection prevention and control (IPC) specialist watched as a health worker carefully donned protective gear and threw away medical waste in a special blue…

The health care system in Ukraine is bearing a heavy burden from the ongoing war. As hostilities continue into their second month, people’s access to health services is increasingly impeded. …

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. …