WiRED International’s Health Education Learning Portal (W-HELP e-library) continues to grow in new and exciting ways. Our e-library allows physicians and nurses, patients, community health workers and others in underserved regions to address the prevention and treatment of both infectious and non-communicable diseases.

WiRED International returned from a 12-day trip to establish two Community Health Education (CHE) centers in Peru—one in Iquitos and one in Pevas.

WiRED International begins 2014 with a return to the remote Amazon headwaters of eastern Peru, where we will set up Community Health Education (CHE) facilities in the towns of Iquitos and Pevas.

WiRED began 2014 with an exciting lineup of programs designed to advance our health training activities worldwide. Our medical writers, editors and outside consultants will continue expanding and updating WiRED’s extensive Community Health Information (CHI) e-library. Translators, meanwhile, will continue converting modules into languages including Spanish, Arabic, Armenian and Mandarin.

2013 marked a breakthrough year for WiRED. We launched our Health Education Learning Portal (W-HELP website) to introduce our expanded Community Health Information (CHI) e-library. We extended our presence in countries including Peru and Kenya and added Armenia to our list of countries served.

Children with acute malnutrition are among the most vulnerable people in the world. In creating our newest module, WiRED responded to that general knowledge but most immediately to the growing specter of malnutrition in Syria.

Recently when polio made a tragic global comeback, Wired International responded by adding a healthcare training module on polio to its Community Health Information e-library. After translating its polio module into Arabic in reaction to the polio outbreak in Syria, WiRED now offers its module in Armenian.

The New York Times recently reported on an outbreak of polio in the eastern province of Syria. With this finding, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and other health agencies quickly put together an aggressive vaccination program.

2013 marks the 12-year anniversary of WiRED International’s work in Kenya, where we have established Community Health Information (CHI) Centers in Pandipieri and Obunga, both located in Kisumu, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

As polio resurfaces in five countries, including Kenya, the fight for the worldwide eradication of this highly infectious and potentially deadly disease is suffering a setback.