Motorcycles began arriving early at Guéyo Health Centre in western Côte d’Ivoire, long before the day’s consultations began. Beneath the veranda, mothers sat quietly waiting for antenatal and postnatal care. Some cradled sleeping babies on their laps,...
When an outbreak emerges, how quickly it is contained often depends on decisions made years earlier. This was the central lesson I took away from the Global Health Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur. As Country Director for VillageReach in the Democratic Republic of...
When health facilities run out of family planning products, women often bear the greatest consequences. A missed contraceptive injection, unavailable implants, or stockouts of essential commodities can disrupt reproductive health choices and place additional strain on...
Read the French version of the blog here. In parts of Côte d’Ivoire, stock-out rates for family planning products have fallen from 90 percent to 10 percent in just one year—a shift that signals what is possible when national policy is matched with strong decentralized...
At 4 a.m., Julien Nyembo left home on a motorbike to collect suspected cholera samples from a remote health-zone office in Tanganyika province in the DRC. By the time he reached the central hub, it was already 3 p.m. The journey was difficult. Along the way, he rode...
In Uganda’s western district of Ibanda, anthrax is a familiar enemy. As one health worker said, the word ‘anthrax’ has “become part of our vocabulary.” But this familiarity has not led to safety. Communities have lived with recurring outbreaks for years, largely...
