Working with the Cameroon Ministry of Public Health, we are reducing COVID-19 illness and preventing deaths by helping with vaccinations and putting hardware where it’s needed most. We recently donated a solar refrigerator—which will be used for the storage of vaccines and cold packs—to the remote health district of Mbengwi in Northwest Cameroon, where we …
Behind our Ukraine response is a dedicated team of logisticians who are working hard to make sure that supplies and people get to where they need to go. Some members of the recently hired team had never worked for an NGO before and have had to learn the ins and outs of doing their jobs …
Last year, International Medical Corps began operating in northwestern Cameroon, a region that has suffered from internal armed conflict since 2016. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and have fled into the bush, where they live in crowded, unhygienic, unhealthy conditions. Elderly people, pregnant and lactating women, young girls and children under the …
International Medical Corps provides healthcare services to the people of Nuristan province, an area in eastern Afghanistan that is characterized by mountains and river gorges, making travel to the area extremely difficult, especially in winter. Due to poor socioeconomic conditions, lack of adequate healthcare and insufficient health awareness, people in Nuristan are often in poor …
On Monday, the Silicon Valley technology giant announced disease prevention maps – a set of maps available to health organisations and NGOs showing information like the movement of people and population density to help them understand people’s activity, with the aim of learning how epidemics might appear and evolve, and how best to tackle them.
This week, International Medical Corps set up a field hospital in the middle of downtown Los Angeles to help train local doctors and nurses and other medical personnel. The goal was to help prepare them for the next crisis or natural disaster.
Logistics is like a link chain—it’s only as strong as its weakest link. Each piece has to connect firmly with the next or the whole system breaks down. We have to make sure the right people, the right skills, and the right materials are all in the right place at the right time. This might …
They arrived throughout the night. From midnight until 4am a steady stream of families, groups, individuals, originally from Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Eritrea, reached the latest milestone in their long journeys towards the safety of Europe, Keleti railway station in Budapest. They arrived exhausted, frightened, hungry and thirsty. Many had injuries to their feet from hours …
Last summer, residents of Sinjar, a northern Iraqi city, were forced to flee their homes when the militant group ISIS took control. When the displaced people fled to Sinjar Mountain, trapped without food and water, the world took notice of this spawning humanitarian crisis. Although many were able to escape Sinajr on foot to Syria, …
Logistically speaking, one would think that boarding a boat and sailing across the lake would be simple. However, this is not always the case. The local Drop in Center (DiCe) team, part of International Medical Corps’ Most at Risk Populations program to reach sex workers in Kenya with HIV services, diligently prepares itself to cross …