Ten years ago, WiRED International made a strategic pivot that felt like a calculated risk: we shifted our entire health awareness focus toward training community health workers (CHWs). At the time, we couldn’t have
In 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a resolution to establish guidelines for community health worker (CHW) training — having recognized for years that CHWs could fill the gap in health care found in
WiRED International just added a new module called Advanced Rehydration and Diarrheal Disease Management module to our resource library. If you live in a country where medical services are available
Infectious diseases — such as cholera, malaria, mpox, measles — are skyrocketing. Sadly, many of the infectious diseases found in low-resource regions of the world are already endemic. These areas
In 2025 the United States terminated foreign health aid and eventually pulled its membership out of the World Health Organization (WHO). With little access to vaccines and medicines, diseases
Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that “In 2025, decisions by the government of the United States of America (USG) and wider political developments
Climate change is a fast-growing risk to people, animals and the environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that “Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens
The holidays usually make December a slow month for WiRED International’s community health workers (CHW) in Kisumu, Kenya — but not this year! This December the 20-member CHW team provided
WiRED International — like most NGOs and aid organizations — is still grappling with the relentless assault on global health in 2025. Early in the year, it became clear that the rapid termination of medicines
With the U.S. administration’s sudden termination of USAID and other global health funding, millions of low-resource regions lost access to medicines, vaccines and basic health infrastructure almost overnight.