Africa

Blazing a New Data Trail 

By Maryalice Yakutchik  The latest chapter of Jhpiego’s storied history in cervical cancer prevention finds us working toward global implementation of a breakthrough screening strategy allowing nearly all women everywhere to learn if they have human papillomavirus (HPV), the common virus that leads to cervical cancer, so they can get care before it progresses.  The

COVID-19 & Emerging Infectious Diseases

Mobilizing to Fight Outbreaks and Emerging Infectious Diseases COVID-19, Zika and Ebola. Emerging new diseases have made for some scary headlines—and will continue to threaten men, women and children across the world. In concert with our efforts to prevent and control public health crises by enhancing global health security, Jhpiego works with global, regional and

 Pursuing Dreams in South Sudan

By Maryalice Yakutchik and Joan Nduta with reporting by Susan Martinez Small Jobs, A Big Start Juba, South Sudan — Zita’s soap business makes spot-on sense in a full-circle kind of way. When she was a girl, her mother took in laundry to earn money so that Zita and her sisters could eat and go