by Kimberly A. Hooper from Wickedlocal.com Wicked Local reported what made Concord resident and Boston University student Wiley’s trip to Kenya so great. Wiley focused her time in Kenya researching and reporting on malaria rates in pregnant women. In Wiley’s story, she covered the severity of maternal malaria, how to prevent malaria in pregnancy, challenges […]
Part 2: Leveraging knowledge to fight disease and disability Illness, injury and disability can devastate a country’s people and resources as ruthlessly as any war. Aid organizations often appear during a crisis to combat disease outbreaks and — if time and money allow — to teach people in affected communities how to prevent future flare […]
Part 1: Direct Health Initiative It’s almost the punchline to an unfunny joke but most Americans have absolutely no idea of how much — actually, how little — the country spends on foreign aid. A 2013 Kaiser Family Foundation survey on the U.S. role in global health found that, when asked to guess how much […]