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
Lifesaving Care Delivered in the Community For more than 20 years, we have worked to reduce the global burden of HIV by testing people for HIV, supporting people on treatment, circumcising males to reduce their chance of getting HIV and offering oral pre-exposure prophylaxis to people at risk. With an estimated 39 million people living
Why are pregnant women at risk of malaria? Pregnancy reduces a woman’s immunity to malaria, which makes her more susceptible to malaria infection and increases her risk of illness. In pregnant women, malaria can lead to severe anemia, spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), stillbirth, premature delivery, delivery of low-birthweight babies and death. Women in their first pregnancy
