As we approach the end of 2025, the world is experiencing a resurgence of diphtheria, particularly across much of Africa, with active outbreaks reported in Nigeria, Niger, Guinea, Mauritania, Somalia, and South Africa.
This October WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team in Kisumu, Kenya reached more than 10,000 residents with health services — nearly 1,300 more people than in September.
Earlier this year, news broke that the administration was cutting funds to USAID and ending support for other global health programs serving low-resource countries. At first, the reports seemed exaggerated
How can already underserved regions of the world ward off illness now that global aid of medicines and vaccines has been severely reduced? In response to U.S. funding cuts for health care to under-resourced regions,
In the course of a long-standing collaboration, this August and September NGO Miasin joined with WiRED International–Armenia to produce a series of lectures titled, “The Role of a Community Health Worker
Residents in western Kenya, where a team of WiRED International’s community health workers (CHWs) serve, face ongoing poverty, disease and hunger each day, but their lives are especially difficult around the holidays.
This September WiRED International community health workers (CHWs) operating in Kisumu, Kenya named HIV/AIDS as the top health concern — sadly, that isn’t a surprise. The USAID funding elimination is already
I have always believed in the quiet power of people coming together for the good of others. That belief drew me to WiRED International and its mission to prevent disease and to serve those too often left behind.
Making sure that water is clean for drinking, cooking and washing is a key element in disease prevention — especially in low-resource countries increasingly facing shortages of vaccines, medicines and
This story is the first of a series of occasional pieces WiRED International will post giving recent statistics our readers should know about concerning rising cases of disease in underserved countries.