Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

The Last Mile Health Warrior

Village Budhpura, Block Talera, District Bundi, Rajasthan For the last ten years, Sarita Pankaj, an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM), has dedicated her service to the residents of the small village of Budhpura in Bundi district of Rajathan. Situated close to a mining area and populated mostly by migrant workers and their families, Sarita’s sub-center facility

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much

Village Dharampur, Arunachal Pradesh | April 2020 — As the world is grappling with the growing pandemic, this is even more of a challenge for remote areas that get completely cut off during the nationwide lockdown due to severe curbs on transportation. In one such village, Dharampur, in Namsai district of the far northeastern state

Jhpiego Puts Nurses in the Spotlight

Baltimore, MD – A Taiwanese nurse in a protective suit standing against COVID-19. A Ugandan nurse cradling a newborn she has helped deliver. A community nurse in Guatemala tending to a farmer alongside his bull. Today more than ever, as a pandemic sweeps across the globe, the impact of nurses can’t be underestimated. Nurses deliver care to the majority of people in the world—and it’s time