Vaccine Hesitancy and How the Faith Community Can Help
World Immunization Week is an ideal time to celebrate this life-saving intervention and take stock of what we learned from COVID vaccine hesitancy. The challenge public health officials faced with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance may have raised the profile of vaccine hesitancy, but it is not a new phenomenon....
COVID-19 Check in with CCIH Affiliate MUSUHUM in Niger and Benin
We checked in with Dr. Stachys Hounkpatin, Program Officer with CCIH affiliate Mouvement Universel pour la Survie de l’Humanité, working in Niger and Benin, for an update on their response to COVID-19. We understand MUSUHUM (Mouvement Universel pour la Survie de l’Humanité) has two clinics in Niger, what...
SANRU in the DRC Shares COVID-19 Strategies and Challenges
We checked in with Malonga Miatudila, MD, MPH, Senior Public Health Specialist with CCIH member SANRU near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ask about the COVID-19 situation in the area and how SANRU is responding to the pandemic. What is the community around...
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Iraqi Christian Organization Provides Hope to the Internally Displaced
After the Gulf War in 1991, the Kurdistan people fled their homes for the Turkish and Iranian borders. After the United Nations declared the Kurdistan region a safe haven, people returned home, but were in dire need of food, healthcare and hygiene. “Needy families were struggling to survive...