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.
Today we are pleased to announce the completion of our Cholera animation, the second of seven animations to help communities prepare for an expected surge of infectious diseases in low-resource
In August WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team of 18 people performed health services for 9,831 people in Kisumu, Kenya — 800 more than in July! This month CHWs reported
Ten years ago WiRED International released a health education module on chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus unknown to most people and rare outside tropical climate zones. Today, chikungunya cases
A July 2025 Lancet study projects more than 14 million additional avoidable deaths by 2030, with 4.5 million among children under age five, with the continued dismantling of USAID programs. With dedicated volunteers
WiRED initiated a new reporting system for our CHWs last March. The new outcomes procedure will record data on CHW home visits, referrals and follow-up and help us understand the direct interventions and level