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 […]

By Dr. Kashef Ijaz, Vice President-Health, and Barbara J. Smith, Vice President-Peace, The Carter Center Back in the turbulent 1960s, there was a popular poster — today it would be a meme on social media — that said, “War is not healthy for children and other living things.”  More than 50 years and uncounted conflicts […]

By The Task Force for Global Health The Task Force for Global Health was founded nearly 40 years ago to advance health equity. Here is what health equity means to us. In 1984, only 20% of children were vaccinated. Those children primarily lived in high-income countries, leaving hundreds of millions of children elsewhere at risk […]

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 […]

By Dr. Kashef Ijaz, Vice President-Health, The Carter Center Following on my commentary last month regarding health care capacity building at the community level, it’s fitting now to acknowledge our government partners’ eagerness and ability to exercise ownership of programs taking place within their borders.  A prime example is the Carter Center’s Public Health Training […]

By Dr. Stephanie Adams, Interim Executive Director, Global Health Crisis Coordination Center According to the CDC, Native American and Native Alaskan persons are 3.3 times more likely, Black persons 2.9 times more likely, and Hispanic persons 2.8 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 compared with Whites. Even as the nation rounds the curve […]

By Candace Wheeler A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, handwashing remains a key mitigation strategy to prevent the spread of the virus, but access to clean water, effective handwashing supplies and restrooms can be challenging for people experiencing homelessness. To address this need, the CDC Foundation in partnership with Clean the World Foundation, with financial […]

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 […]

By Dr. Kashef Ijaz, Vice President of Health Programs, The Carter Center The Carter Center’s neglected tropical disease programs treat and prevent Guinea worm disease, trachoma, river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, and schistosomiasis, with the goal to control, eliminate, and eradicate. Beyond the alleviation of the human suffering caused by these illnesses, this work brings ancillary […]

In the first year of the pandemic, nearly 30 million Americans were diagnosed with COVID-19 and 540,000 died, with a disproportionate number of cases and deaths suffered by people of color. In The Task Force for Global Health’s home base of Atlanta, Georgia, several organizations have been working to meet the needs of those communities, […]