For more than half his young life, 13-year-old Mbumwae Khagwanda was a frequent visitor to the local primary care health facility, Limulunga Rural Health Centre, situated about 1 mile from his home in Western Province but hundreds of miles from Zambia’s capital. Staff there, who had limited experience handling complex cases, had tried over the
Barlekha Upazila, Bangladesh—Not yet out of her teens, Runa Akhtar became a first-time mother, giving birth to a healthy baby girl at Barlekha Upazila Health Complex in November 2019. After conducting the delivery safely, midwife Monita Singha asked Runa whether she wanted to accept a family planning (FP) method right away. Having graduated from school,
On World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), we celebrated “undetectable equals untransmittable” and the inspiring efforts of communities to end the epidemic. Maragua, Kenya — For years, she hid the antiretrovirals (ARVs) under the bed, worried that her husband would leave if he discovered her secret and her community would shun her. For years, she lived
