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WiRED News Timeline, 2025

January 6 2025
WiRED International has always offered our health education programs free to all. In 2020 we went beyond that general concept and developed a Community
January 15 2025
Diabetes is a global epidemic. The World Health Organization recently reported that the number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled since 1990, leading to
January 21 2025
WiRED International’s team of community health workers (CHWs) in western Kenya have come a long, remarkable way since they were first trained in 2020
January 29 2025
The Kansas City, Kansas metro area is experiencing the largest outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in U.S. history, with 67 active cases reported so far.
February 4 2025
WiRED International has just released an evidence-based training module designed to help community health workers (CHWs) and others working in public health to understand
February 13 2025
At the start of the new year, WiRED International’s community health workers (CHWs) in Kenya picked up their active schedule of community health assistance.
February 24 2025
WiRED International announces the start of a community health worker (CHW) trial project in Armenia that features guided online study. This virtual learning method
March 4 2025
What are viral hemorrhagic fevers? They are infectious diseases that may damage blood vessels and cause bleeding. VHFs such as Ebola, Marburg, Dengue, yellow
March 9 2025
WiRED International has just launched an urgent module titled When ARVs Are Gone: HIV/AIDS Symptoms Management. This training equips community health workers (CHWs) with
March 22 2025
WiRED International is continually expanding our Community Health Worker (CHW) programs in low-resource regions. In 2020 we trained our pilot CHW team in Kisumu,
March 26 2025
WiRED International's origins are deeply linked to the prestigious Fulbright Program, which has facilitated scholarly exchanges between the United States and 160 countries for
March 30 2025
Recently, we reported on WiRED International's efforts to equip community health workers (CHWs) to support HIV/AIDS patients deprived of antiretrovirals (ARVs) due to abrupt
April 4 2025
WiRED International just added a cutting-edge tool to our Community Health Worker (CHW) program’s Health Module Access Program (HealthMAP). Now, the continuing medical education
April 13 2025
WiRED International’s new community health worker (CHW) reporting system is up and running in Kisumu, Kenya! Why is WiRED expanding our CHW program by
April 17 2025
Can Community Health Workers (CHWs) help alleviate the burden on the medical community? Is it possible to equip these health workers with the necessary
April 22 2025
My involvement with WiRED International began with a strong-arm recruitment by my late father, Richard R. Gilbert, D.D., a guiding force in the organization’s
April 28 2025
WiRED International just launched an urgent module titled When ARVs Are Gone: Providing Mental Health Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS. WiRED’s original team
May 6 2025
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance just posted a global watch for a rise in cases of malaria, HIV and tuberculosis (TB), possibly in epic numbers.
May 13 2025
Though not halfway through 2025, WiRED International is rapidly launching new programs, IT distribution innovations and health education modules. The urgency is critical to
May 19 2025
WiRED International’s paraprofessional team of community health workers (CHWs) press on with their crucial monthly work of caring for the health of their populations
May 25 2025
WiRED International announces our first community health worker (CHW) training partnership with Tom Mboya University (TMU) in Kenya. WiRED CHW instructors from KUAP Pandipieri
May 31 2025
Today, antiretrovirals (ARVs), vaccines and medications are in short supply or unavailable. How are community health workers (CHWs) operating in underserved countries to help
June 4 2025
WiRED International announces the launch of a new web page to highlight our three-part training series, “When ARVs Are Gone.” After the suspension of
June 12 2025
Less than a year ago, in August 2024, mpox spread rapidly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to four neighboring countries, and
June 21 2025
In May the World Health Organization reported that Kenya is boosting its national cholera preparedness and response amid cholera outbreaks during the rainy season.
June 28 2025
I recall sitting in the Ben Linder Café in León, Nicaragua in 2002 with the directors of two American NGOs: Michael Lundquist, head of
July 3 2025
WiRED International editor Allison Kozicharow recently interviewed Maryam Othman, M.D., M.P.H. In addition to teaching at Western University of Health Sciences in California, she
July 10 2025
This June WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team of 20 people performed health services for almost 10,000 people in Kisumu, Kenya! The need
July 14 2025
Today, WiRED International is releasing the first of seven animations designed to help communities prepare for an expected surge of infectious diseases in low-resource
July 23 2025
The community health worker (CHW) training program in Homa Bay aimed to empower TMU students and Ministry of Health-trained CHWs from Homa Bay County.
August 1 2025
As WiRED International approaches its 30th anniversary, we’re reminded not only of the organization’s longevity but of its enduring values — collaboration, service and
August 11 2025
This July WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team of 20 people performed health services for almost more than 9,000 people in Kisumu, Kenya!
August 17 2025
WiRED initiated a new reporting system for our CHWs last March. The new outcomes procedure will record data on CHW home visits, referrals and
August 22 2025
A July 2025 Lancet study projects more than 14 million additional avoidable deaths by 2030, with 4.5 million among children under age five, with
August 31 2025
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
September 12 2025
In August WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team of 18 people performed health services for 9,831 people in Kisumu, Kenya — 800 more
September 19 2025
Today we are pleased to announce the completion of our Cholera animation, the second of seven animations to help communities prepare for an expected
September 24 2025
This story is the first of a series of occasional pieces WiRED International will post giving recent statistics our readers should know about concerning
September 30 2025
Making sure that water is clean for drinking, cooking and washing is a key element in disease prevention — especially in low-resource countries increasingly
October 9 2025
I have always believed in the quiet power of people coming together for the good of others. That belief drew me to WiRED International
October 17 2025
This September WiRED International community health workers (CHWs) operating in Kisumu, Kenya named HIV/AIDS as the top health concern — sadly, that isn’t a
October 23 2025
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
October 30 2025
In the course of a long-standing collaboration, this August and September NGO Miasin joined with WiRED International–Armenia to produce a series of lectures titled,
November 5 2025
How can already underserved regions of the world ward off illness now that global aid of medicines and vaccines has been severely reduced? In
November 5 2025
Earlier this year, news broke that the administration was cutting funds to USAID and ending support for other global health programs serving low-resource countries.
November 15 2025
This October WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team in Kisumu, Kenya reached more than 10,000 residents with health services — nearly 1,300 more
November 18 2025
As we approach the end of 2025, the world is experiencing a resurgence of diphtheria, particularly across much of Africa, with active outbreaks reported
November 21 2025
Last month WiRED International asked for your help in donating to the Sister Bernadette Sunshine-Mitzvah Fund. Many people who follow WiRED’s work have generously
November 24 2025
In April 2025 the journal Frontiers in Public Health published a paper co-written by WiRED International Medical Programs Director Maryam Othman, M.D., M.P.H., and
November 26 2025
This year is like no other for underserved regions of the world whose populations struggle to survive. In 2025 the U.S. Administration suspended global
December 7 2025
Recent global efforts to address the accelerating effects of climate change have slowed and, by some indicators, lost ground. The health consequences of climate
December 13 2025
In November WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team in Kisumu, Kenya CHWs provided education for their population on a wide range of illnesses
December 20 2025
WiRED International is pleased to announce that all 20 students who took our community health worker (CHW) training class in Kisumu, Kenya passed their
December 22 2025
All of us at WiRED International would like to wish happy holidays to everyone who is part of the WiRED family and all of
December 29 2025
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
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