By Amy Veinoglou and Carl Fayette, USAID’s Act to End NTDs | East program, led by RTI International Volunteers in bright yellow vests travel door to door in rural Haiti with medicine in hand. Others sit under tents in village centers, calling out to passersby. …

By Richard Reithinger, RTI International Since I arrived in Guinea, it has been raining — sometimes lighter, sometimes harder — non-stop. I am here to visit colleagues who through the U.S. …

A small boat slips through narrow channels off Mozambique’s Zambezi River, carrying a special team of investigators. They don’t have badges or uniforms — but they are certainly on a mission. The team is part of a global effort to investigate why some geographic areas are falling behind in the…

When COVID-19 hit the Philippines, health worker Maricel Cruz monitored the condition of suspected cases in her Manila neighborhood, Barangay 374. It was summer and COVID-19 cases were surging in the Southeast Asian country. Low-income neighborhoods of large cities, like Cruz’s, were becoming hotspots. “I experienced a lot of challenges…

By Kaitlin Lesnick, RTI International In Haiti, you can find maize nearly everywhere. This staple crop makes up a key portion of the Haitian diet through products such as maïs moulin, maïs moulu, and farine, which are cooked with greens and protein. In fact, the average Haitian consumes approximately 20…

When Dr. Leda Hernandez began managing the Philippines’ lymphatic filariasis (LF) program more than 25 years ago, she was given just one piece of paper to work with: a prevalence survey from 1960 and reports of a “mysterious disease” coming from some districts. Dr. Hernandez believed the reported symptoms to…

By Kaitlin Lesnick, RTI International Adan Hasan Salad, 25, was one of many youth seeking employment in Somalia, where more than 60 percent of the population is under the age of 25. More than half of the country’s youth face the risk of continued unemployment. “Finding a job in Somalia…

How one woman is advocating for change — By: Rosana Ombao “Family planning is a critical part of addressing social determinants of health, like educational level and employment, and actually answering the complex problems that health systems are facing.” This tenet drives Dr. Jan Villamor Llevado’s work as the Program Manager for Family Planning (FP) under the Department…

By Katie G. Nelson for RTI International “When you handle a child with care or love, it can help them in school,” said Rachel Nabbanja, a teacher at Kiiya Primary School in Luwero, Uganda. It’s a simple commitment, but a powerful one. Since Kiiya Primary School adopted measures to create…