A recent New York Times article reported a severe outbreak of HIV and hepatitis due to a surge in injected heroin use in U.S. states including Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Do you know the signs of a person having a stroke? And if so, would you know what to do?

There is something wonderful about Steve Wonder Okello. Steve said, “I was born in Obunga, one of the biggest slums in Kisumu, Kenya, where opportunity does not come to you, but you must go after it.” For the past five years Steve has been a client support staffer at the WiRED International Center in Obunga.

WiRED International will soon present a new twist on our health education program: the Module Express series. WiRED developed the new Express series particularly for use in the most isolated areas of the world. We will be taking this series on our next major trip — to the Peruvian Amazon.

More people die each year from diabetes than from breast cancer and AIDS combined. Diabetes is a serious, potentially deadly disease with a worldwide presence that now amounts to a public health crisis.

How do you describe WiRED International in five minutes or less? Now WiRED offers a video that can do just that. The video was developed to demonstrate how a small volunteer-driven organization can bring free medical information and education to people in remote and troubled areas of the world.

Understanding her menstrual cycle is an important part of a woman’s overall health. For many young girls, feelings of fear, shame and confusion are associated with this natural, healthy biological occurrence.

Although rheumatic heart disease or RHD is completely preventable, it affects millions of people worldwide, two-thirds of them children in low-resource countries. In response to a global need for information, WiRED International just released its RHD module for students in French and Spanish—expanding on our existing versions in English and Portuguese.

Dehydration leads to 1.5 million deaths each year — mostly in young children from developing countries. The tragedy is that with simple treatment these lives could have been saved. WiRED International now offers an educational course on dehydration in our Learning Center.

National Public Health Week is here! To get the ball rolling, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring National Public Health Week and acknowledging the value of public health workers to our country every day.