ExxonMobil Foundation’s 10-year partnership with Jhpiego in Chad and Cameroon began as an inspired effort to prevent malaria in pregnant women in three small districts along the petroleum pipeline. Over the decade, the initial project grew in scope and success. Health workers in key areas improved their skills to prevent and treat malaria, community education
Waiting at Waita Joyce Makasi was in the midst of a perfect storm of pregnancy and pandemic. She was in labor, growing weak, and in need of a cesarean delivery. Daunting and dangerous as that situation might be in normal times for any woman living in in central Kenya’s Kitui Province, Joyce’s predicament was further
In between tweeting with teens, seeing patients at her Johannesburg clinic and carrying out her mandate as Special Rapporteur on the right to health as appointed by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng wrote a book—Dr. T: A Guide to Sexual Health & Pleasure—that one grateful reader
