Promoting lifesaving vaccines for all ages. Integrating immunization with other essential health care services. Vaccinating to prevent disease, stop outbreaks and allow people to live without fear of a disease. Jhpiego’s expertise in immunization is based on 50 years of developing the health workforce and improving health service delivery. Our international partnerships and contributions to
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
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
