Ending TB: A long-overdue global priority The global TB response is at an inflection point. While the toolbox has never been so full of newly approved and near-term innovations in diagnostics, treatment and prevention, progress to achieve TB elimination targets has been slow, with some gains reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jhpiego combines a strong
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
At 35 weeks pregnant with her fourth child, Lailuma felt anxious—the memory of her third birth still haunting her. As with her previous deliveries, she had given birth at home. But the last labor had been unbearably long and tiring. Her baby seemed to have suffered too, being slow to develop and grow as her
