By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Access to basic and specialized healthcare in Central America largely depends on socioeconomic status and geography (urban or rural). Honduras has worked to improve access and quality of care, particularly in rural settings. Despite improvements to health services and systems, rural populations still have difficulty accessing basic health […]
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Biomedical Equipment Donations Helping to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call […]
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Medical Mission Teams: Helping Heal Home
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Medical mission teams represent an essential component of global health delivery. Most medical mission teams provide primary health care and surgical services for communities with limited access to health care in middle and lower-income countries. A large part of MedShare’s health system interventions each year involve supporting medical […]
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Matching Maternal Child Health Interventions with Need
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Poor maternal, newborn and child health care remain a significant problem in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that worldwide, 250,000–280,000 women die during pregnancy and childbirth every year and an estimated 6.55 million children die under the age of five each year. The […]
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Reducing Health Care Disparities in Uganda
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President World Health Day is April 7, and will focus on building a fairer, healthier world. As COVID-19 has highlighted, some people are able to live healthier lives and have better access to health services than others – entirely due to the conditions in which they are born, grow, […]
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Strengthening Health Care in El Salvador
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Access to basic healthcare in Central America largely depends on socioeconomic status and environment (urban or rural). El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have worked to improve access and quality of care, particularly in rural settings. Despite improvements to health services and systems, rural populations still have difficulty accessing […]
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Infectious Diseases, More than Covid-19
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President On January 30, 2021, the world celebrated the 2nd annual Neglected Tropical Disease Day, a day designed to raise awareness and engage the general public in the urgent effort to #BeatNTDs. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) threaten more than 1.7 billion people living in the poorest and most marginalized […]
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Volunteers Play Critical Role in Improving Global Health Outcomes
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President MedShare exists in order to improve the quality of life of people and our planet by repurposing quality medical supplies and equipment to help improve health outcomes for countless people without access to quality health care. In order to fulfill our mission, three essential ingredients are required – […]
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Year-end Giving Critical to Addressing Humanitarian Needs
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President This year has been one of the most unprecedented years in history. Beyond the obvious impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 63 million people affected worldwide and close to 1.5 million deaths, communities around the world have been ravaged by fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, as well as […]
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Improving Maternal & Child Health Outcomes in Venezuela
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President In May 2016, the New York Times published a story, Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals. It chronicled the economic struggles in recent years in Venezuela and the devastating impact they’ve had on a collapsing health system as well as the failure of the government […]
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Primary Health Care Essential to Improving Global Health Outcomes
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President I cannot recall a time when so much focus has been placed on primary health care, or the lack thereof, as it is now. The global Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the ongoing struggle in many communities to address underlying health conditions before they lead to catastrophic outcomes. This […]
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Medical Mission Teams Addressing Unmet Global Health Needs
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Medical mission teams represent an essential component of global health delivery. The National Library of Medicine defines medical missions (MMs) as “Travel by a group of physicians for the purpose of making a special study or undertaking a special project of short-term duration.” Most medical mission teams provide […]
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Socioeconomic Conditions Lead to Health Challenges in Guatemala
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President It has been roughly 8 months now since the world was introduced to the novel coronavirus. The first outbreak occurred in Wuhan, China and then began to spread rapidly throughout the world changing life as we know it. Even now communities are struggling to combat this deadly virus. […]
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Innovative Health Care Delivery in Nicaragua
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President As Covid-19 continues its “roller-coaster” assault on the U.S. and countries around the world, communities lack the infrastructure needed to identify infected individuals and perform contact-tracing to contain the spread. Faced with limited resources and the prevalence of chronic conditions and infectious diseases that permeate their poorest communities, […]
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Training Nurses on Emergency Response Is Critical to Improving Global Health Outcomes
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Admist the backdrop of a global pandemic like COVID-19, it is difficult to imagine that many other global health issues persist. Not only is this true, but there are still many people and organizations continuing to address these issues while the world wrestles with creating a new “normal” […]
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Column: Atlanta’s global health community gets a new theme song
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 6, 2019
It’s a family affair. Earlier this year, Judy Monroe, CEO of the CDC Foundation, asked her songwriting daughter – Kelley Elle – if she could write a song for global health.
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Safety-net Clinics, An Important Part of the U.S. Health System
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Access to quality health care in the U.S. has long been a topic of debate that often ends in more questions than solutions. Do we trade quality for quantity? Does expanding health care coverage water down the the quality of care? Who will pay for it? Often it […]
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Global Health Crisis Coordination Center gets launched in Atlanta
Atlanta is capitalizing on its unique role as the center for global health with the launch of the national Global Health Crisis Coordination Center.
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Could We Have Been More Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic?
By The Task Force for Global Health Responding to the scale and impact of the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge the public health community has not faced in the modern era. While all countries are mounting various levels of response, it is the countries with weak health systems that will likely feel the greatest impact. […]
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Adapting During the Coronavirus Outbreak
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President In just a matter of weeks, coronavirus has changed all of our lives in ways that we never would have thought possible. Life as we know it has been turned on its head. As we’re adapting to social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, we’re all having to make rapid […]
