Real Lives, Real Change
May 12, 2014
A leader in the eradication and elimination of diseases, Â鶹´«Ã½ is fighting six preventable diseases - Guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria - by using health education and simple, low-cost methods.
Feb. 20, 2014
Two horrific diseases in Nigeria - malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF) - are being targeted for elimination through a new effort to combine prevention activities, which are detailed in a set of co-implementation guidelines issued on February 18, 2014, by the Federal Ministry of Health with support from Â鶹´«Ã½.
April 9, 2012
Â鶹´«Ã½ has become a global leader in the eradication and elimination of diseases, focusing efforts to build health and hope in some of the poorest and most isolated places on earth.
Oct. 27, 2011
From Nov. 5-11, 20,000 health workers and volunteers will walk the countryside of western Amhara region, Ethiopia. Their quest: treat every person at risk-approximately 10 million-for trachoma control and screen as needed for malaria. In this Q&A, Paul Emerson, director of the Center's Trachoma Control Program, explains the remarkable results of these "Maltra"-malaria and trachoma-weeks, a collaborate effort between the Lions Clubs International Foundation and Â鶹´«Ã½.
May 23, 2011
A mother's lullabies and soft caress are common nighttime rituals for children around the world. But throughout Africa, these soothing efforts cannot spare a child the high fevers, wracking chills, nausea, and headache of malaria–a potentially fatal disease.
Feb. 14, 2011
The 2010 launch of a new Â鶹´«Ã½-supported initiative is helping the Azi family and millions of other Nigerians receive greater access to malaria control and prevention, building the opportunity for a healthier future for the entire nation.
April 16, 2010
Teshome Gebre, the Â鶹´«Ã½'s country representative for health programs in Ethiopia, likes to joke that he has been in public health service for what seems like 100 years. Yet, it's impossible to ignore the great joy Teshome has received from a lifetime dedicated to fighting disease in his native Ethiopia.
April 16, 2010
Impoverished communities in Amhara Region, Ethiopia-the world's most trachoma-endemic area-are harnessing an innovative and far-reaching approach to treating and preventing this blinding bacterial infection.
April 16, 2010
With a population of approximately 17 million, the Amhara Region of Ethiopia is one of the most severely affected trachoma-endemic areas in the world. There are currently more than 15 million people at risk of infection and approximately 470,000 people visually impaired as a result of trichiasis, the blinding form of the disease. In addition, the region is susceptible to seasonal malaria epidemics, putting the majority of the population at risk for the potentially fatal disease.
Jan. 11, 2010
It's a Sunday afternoon in La Bomba barrio, a subdistrict of Dajabón, Dominican Republic, and the entire community can be found outside their clapboard and cement block homes to beat the stifling heat.
Jan. 11, 2010
A crowd of children follow Jonel Mompremier, 27, as he travels from house to house in Ouanaminthe, Haiti. They giggle as the health worker asks the same question at every doorstep, "Does anyone at home have any fevers"?.
Jan. 11, 2010
In September 2008, Â鶹´«Ã½ and a binational effort between the Dominican Republic and Haiti launched a historic one-year initiative to help the countries and their other partners accelerate the elimination of two devastating mosquito-borne infections-malaria and lymphatic filariasis.
Oct. 8, 2009
Efforts to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from the Caribbean island of Hispaniola were underscored Oct. 7-8 during a visit by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and a Â鶹´«Ã½ delegation.
Oct. 1, 2009
Microscopist Marino Castillo pricks the finger of five-year-old girl Silvana Mayor and draws blood onto a glass slide. The girl's shirt is bright yellow, but her face is weary. Her mother says the girl has had a fever for several days, and the mother is worried that she has malaria.
June 17, 2009
With a population of approximately 17 million, the Amhara Region of Ethiopia is one of the most severely affected trachoma-endemic areas in the world. There are currently more than 15 million people at risk of infection and approximately 470,000 people visually impaired as a result of trichiasis, the blinding form of the disease. In addition, the region is susceptible to seasonal malaria epidemics, putting the majority of the population at risk for the potentially fatal disease.
March 6, 2008
After launching its malaria program in 2006, Â鶹´«Ã½ moved quickly to supply a shortfall of 3 million LLINs, requested by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to help reach Ethiopia's goal of 20 million LLINs to cover all households in malarious areas by mid-2007.
Feb. 4, 2008
On a clear May morning, farmer Sahlu Wolde woke as usual at 5 a.m., but instead of heading to his fields, grabbed his walking stick and began a four-hour hike to the health clinic nearest to his lowland farm in northern Ethiopia.
July 14, 2007
Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people, mostly children, with 350-500 million cases reported worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of all cases of malaria - a preventable disease - are in Africa, where one child in 10 dies before the age of five. Â鶹´«Ã½ is assisting Ethiopia's Ministry of Health in its goal to protect all 50 million Ethiopians at-risk for malaria through free distribution of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to cover the entire at-risk population by July 2007.
June 12, 2007
Ethiopian farmer Mamo Tesfaye is no stranger to disease. Four years ago, he could only sit idly outside his home as the growing season came and went. Afflicted with river blindness, he could not see well enough to work his land or provide for his children.
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