Jordan Tropf, a Johns Hopkins University alumnus and winner of the 2017 Baltimore Marathon, serves as virtual coach to Jhpiego Miles for Mothers runners participating in the Oct. 20 running festival.
It’s an audacious goal: protect 40 million girls across 40 developing countries against HPV by 2020. This is a goal of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. And it must be met if we are to prevent the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of women from cervical cancer around the globe.
As a volunteer health promoter for the George Health Centre, Violet spends her days out and about, talking about voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). It’s a task that takes the 58-year-old widow into barbershops, markets, bars, clubs, churches … any place men tend to frequent or congregate.
Every day 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Helena’s story shows us it doesn’t have to be this way.
