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Featured Image: A “Chakma” student holding a “Find the Missing Millions” board to support the initiative. The Chakma tribe is the largest indigenous tribe in Bangladesh. They live in Rangamati, ...
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Featured Image: A “Chakma” student holding a “Find the Missing Millions” board to support the initiative. The Chakma tribe is the largest indigenous tribe in Bangladesh. They live in Rangamati, Chittagong hills which is in the South-East Bangladesh. A “Find the Missing Millions” free hepatitis B and C screening and awareness program organized by the […]
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. […]
Introduction to Global Health Action In 1972, Dr. Ada Fort and Miss Virginia Proctor, two administrators at Emory University’s Woodruff School of Nursing, recruited and inspired a group of leaders from Atlanta’s health, religious, business, and education communities, to establish Global Health Action’s precursor, the International Nursing Services Association (INSA). Founded to help foster healthier […]
By Amy Tolchinsky When the novel coronavirus first appeared in the United States, little was known about the virus that spread so swiftly throughout the country. Each day we are learning more, but there are still many unanswered questions, especially about the health inequities of COVID-19. Preliminary data has shown us that racial and ethnic […]
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, […]
Featured Image: Field epidemiologists conduct contact tracing in Uganda during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo courtesy of Aggrey Byaruhanga. By The Task Force for Global Health It has been more than two months since the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic and, since the crisis began, more than 5.5 million people have contracted the […]
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” […]
By Dr. Fernando Reati In these times of fear, anxiety and the possibility of serious illness or even death due to the coronavirus pandemic, I have been thinking a lot about those first days I spent in a secret detention center in Argentina back in 1976. A military coup had taken place and tens of […]
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 […]
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. […]
