On April 12, 2023, Cameroon launched its Universal Health Coverage (UHC) health system reform, a transformative effort to provide equitable access to quality and affordable health care for all Cameroonians, particularly the most vulnerable populations—such as people living with HIV (PLHIV). In the past, approximately 70% of health services were funded out-of-pocket by clients, which
Kabul, Afghanistan – While visiting the Ahmad Shah Baba District Hospital in Kabul, Shafiqua Sadat met a Jhpiego-trained midwife who connected her to a service that would become beneficial for both her and her soon-to-be born baby girl. Shafiqua, 26 and visibly pregnant, had been keeping her sister-in-law company when midwife Rozina Sahak approached the
As a youngster in Kenya, Mary Wambua was different. Children stayed away from her. “When my friends were going to school and playing together—I was on my own. They said I smelled and didn’t want to get close to me,” says Mary Wambua, 48. Mary had a fistula—an abnormal passage between the bladder and vagina
