In what the UN calls “the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis,” nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh, escaping recent violence and ethnic persecution in Myanmar.1 Though [...]
Basic Needs, an international NGO report that ‘mental health problems account for almost 13% of the world’s total disease burden, affecting up to 450 million people worldwide at any one [...]
Access.mobile is working in Uganda to provide patients with access to electronic health records, communication via SMS and online practice management tools. Access.mobile company video [...]
Inspired by a terrible first night on-call, Dr Mohammod Chisti developed a low cost innovation to help save lives of babies with pneumonia. Dr Chisti, who is from Bangladesh, published his [...]
Following on from the success of the Elective Aid 2017 trip, applications are now open for students and professionals wishing to travel to Bangladesh in August 2018. For more information and to [...]
Thirteen volunteers from across the United Kingdom travelled to Bangladesh this summer to provide health camps to underserved parts of rural Bangladesh. The volunteers worked with local partner [...]
Zipline, a US based company, reports that ‘more than two billion people lack adequate access to essential medical products, often due to challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure. [...]
The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change highlighted that action against climate change was possibly “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century”. How does climate [...]
New healthcare technologies are playing an ever-growing role in revolutionizing our world. From switching to electronic medical records, to developments in biomedical engineering and technology, [...]
Applications are open for Elective Aid 2018 Elective Aid is a 10-day global health programme for aspiring medical leaders. Click HERE to find out more and apply This year’s programme will take [...]
