The major aid cuts announced by the US and European governments in early 2025 have reshaped the global development funding environment. As donor funding shrinks, global health programs that have long relied on this support are already seeing the effects, particularly...
No single actor can solve Kenya’s health challenges alone. — Dr. Maureen Kimani, Head, Division of Community Health, Ministry of Health, Kenya. Across Kenya, there is a growing recognition that effective delivery of health commodities up to the community level is...
Imagine a world where a child’s chance of surviving past their fifth birthday doesn’t depend on where they were born. A world where diseases like measles, polio, and cervical cancer are no longer threats to families or barriers to development. Where communities, no...
At the 29th Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Poliomyelitis Eradication meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi in June 2022, representatives of the Malawi Ministry of Health and of ARCC recalled the shocking news they had received from the NICD laboratory in...
Originally posted on Skoll.org. As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic bore down in Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2020, Bébé Bola, a community health worker (CHW) in the Pakadjuma township of Kinshasa knew that she and her colleagues lacked the...
I wanted to take a moment to personally update you on how VillageReach is adapting to the global spread of COVID-19 and responding to its impact on health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. VillageReach has seen over and over again that during times of crisis, essential...
