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July 30, 2015
Published by Tausif Sanzum Karim at Jul 30 2015
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general, health

Rising from rock bottom: How Ebola survivors are getting back on their feet

“After losing my husband and four children, surviving alone with my youngest child has been so difficult for me that it makes me wish that we had died together. The trauma of EVD (Ebola virus disease) will forever live within me,” says Jeanet Wee, an Ebola survivor.
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July 7, 2014
Published by Scott MacMillan at Jul 07 2014
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general, health

Update on Ebola in West Africa: How we’re stopping it, how you can help

I wrote last week about the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what can be done to stop it. Thanks in part to help from supporters in North America, including the actor Jeffrey Wright, BRAC USA has responded with emergency funding to BRAC Sierra Leone to contain the crisis.
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May 7, 2013
Published by Oscar Abello at May 07 2013
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general, health

No mother stands alone

BRAC USA launched a campaign called No Mother Stands Alone to rally support for adapting BRAC's proven maternal health program in Bangladesh to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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October 21, 2010
Published by BRAC at Oct 21 2010
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general, health

Door-to-door healthcare for expecting mothers and their families

Mary Naluwu is a BRAC Community Health Volunteer (CHV) in Kihombooza village, near Hoima town in western Uganda. As she walked with, Hellen Birungi, a BRAC Health Project Assistant (PA), carrying out their duty in the village, they found a pregnant woman at her home with high blood pressure and referred her for medical treatment. That day Naluwu and Hellen were providing ante-natal care to pregnant women in their homes.
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