Infectious Diseases Are Rising Globally
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Infectious diseases — such as cholera, malaria, mpox, measles — are skyrocketing. Sadly, many of the infectious diseases found in low-resource regions of the world are already endemic. These areas
Category: Climate Change
World Health Organization Sees Climate Change as World’s Top Health Threat
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Climate change is a fast-growing risk to people, animals and the environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that “Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens
WiRED International Wraps Up Our Most Challenging Year
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With the U.S. administration’s sudden termination of USAID and other global health funding, millions of low-resource regions lost access to medicines, vaccines and basic health infrastructure almost overnight.
Please Support the Sister Bernadette Sunshine Mitzvah Fund
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Residents in western Kenya, where a team of WiRED International’s community health workers (CHWs) serve, face ongoing poverty, disease and hunger each day, but their lives are especially difficult around the holidays.
Chikungunya Spreading into New Regions Globally
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Ten years ago WiRED International released a health education module on chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus unknown to most people and rare outside tropical climate zones. Today, chikungunya cases
Please Support the Sister Bernadette Sunshine-Mitzvah Fund!
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Residents in western Kenya, where WiRED International serves, face ongoing poverty, disease and hunger each day, but their lives are especially difficult around the holidays. In response, Sr. Bernadette Nealon
Water Purification in Times of Climate Change
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We read often about countries in low-resource regions facing a life-threatening shortage of clean drinking water. People die of dehydration, contract water-borne diseases and suffer from an extreme
Mosquito and Disease Migration Amid Climate Change
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Summer is coming and with it the mosquito. Although tropical and subtropical areas of the world host epidemics of mosquito-borne diseases year round, climate change is causing mosquitoes to migrate
Rains and Floods Pummel Kenya
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Torrential rain and flooding are now creating calamitous conditions in Kisumu, Kenya, where WiRED International’s paraprofessional team of community health workers (CHWs) live and guard the health of their
Earth Day
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It’s heartwarming to see the flood of public enthusiasm for this year’s 54th Earth Day celebration. My inbox was filled with organizations announcing programs to recognize this year’s theme: Planet vs. Plastics.