Category: Global Health & Development

If we continue to work together we can save the lives of those healthcare workers still treating patients in West Africa and prevent the spread of Ebola elsewhere. Act now.

Watching the news about the developments on the United States’ southern border reminds me of my first encounter with a refugee crisis 23 years ago in Dadaab, Kenya.

Ebola. Until recent months this was a virus that most Americans were unfamiliar with, or referenced with E Coli. Now, the word Ebola breeds fear and loss as we look at over 800 lives lost and more to come in West Africa.

The MAP International team recently secured a $470,000 grant from the World Food Program to help communities in northern Uganda boost food production.

When talking about global health activity here in Atlanta, we typically focus on diseases like malaria, Guinea worm or river blindness. Rarely, do we talk about mental health.

An Atlanta-area company recently harvested its first crop from a model farm it has developed in the African nation of Zambia.

In a college classroom in North Carolina a professor of Global Health Ethics puts a deceptively simple question to the class: “what causes disease?”

While we have been working to tackle the diseases of poverty, the diseases of wealthier countries have sneaked into the same populations we serve.

Where poverty exists, so do high rates of preventable disease. And where such disease exists, poor sanitation is often a root cause.

Did you send a greeting card to someone over the weekend to mark World Water Day? Probably not.