by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 9, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories Smile Train, the world’s largest charity focused on comprehensive cleft care, continued to provide surgical services and ongoing cleft care to patients across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic disrupted health...
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by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 7, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories Stopping the Coronavirus Spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Unique Community-based Civil Society Intervention Providing Health Education and Psychosocial Support With the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) suffering from a...
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by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 6, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories WATCH: Leaders, we need health policies that include everyone. A short video campaign initiated by CSEM Advisory Group member and MSSI Chennai Chapter member Smitha Sadasivan. https://csemonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/edit-5.mp4...
by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 5, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories Frontline AIDS, a global partnership of organizations working at the frontline of the world’s HIV/AIDS response, is familiar with the importance of making service adaptations to protect the most marginalised people. For decades,...
by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 4, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19, the new report from CIVICUS, documents civil society’s vital response to the pandemic, setting out how civil society helped people most in need, filled gaps and defended rights. Civil society organisations...
by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 4, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories El nuevo informe de CIVICUS, La solidaridad en tiempos de COVID-19, documenta las vitales respuestas de la sociedad civil frente a la pandemia y expone las diversas maneras en que la sociedad civil ayudó a las personas más necesitadas, cubrió...
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by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 4, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories The Ugenya Youth and Community Development Project notes that while mortality rates from COVID-19 has been low in Kenya compared to the rest of the world, the pandemic has had a large impact on the lives and livelihoods of many...
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by Carthi Mannikarottu | Dec 4, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories Youth and Environment Vision (YEV), based in Mwanza in Tanzania, started working on COVID-19 awareness and provision of protective materials in March 2020 when WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. In the community in which we work, there...
by Kim Martin | Nov 25, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories The Special Olympics movement aims to achieve the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities (ID)—a marginalized group whose needs are rarely considered in emergency response, as in the COVID-19 pandemic, or even policy...
by Kim Martin | Nov 25, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories The dichotomy between the privileged and the disadvantaged has become as bright as day during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In Kenya, for example, women and girls were turned away or unable to...
by Kim Martin | Nov 25, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS and Health Service Organisations (EANNASO) is a regional network organization that has programs across anglophone Africa countries that promotes health innovations and specializes in providing...
by Carthi Mannikarottu | Nov 25, 2020 | UHC Day
Back to UHC Day Stories The COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa is providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to up to one million community health workers in 20 African countries who provide healthcare services to 400 million African citizens. The Fund...
