We’ve all seen the meme, right? We all have memories or thoughts that haunt us. For us here at Medical Teams, it’s the reality that there are millions of people worldwide without access to life-saving medical care. Our health care…

From the moment Ramsey’s life began, his life was at risk. After losing his mother shortly after birth, his grandmother, Betty, took him in — but she had nothing to feed the fragile newborn. Just when she feared she would…

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is celebrated every year during the first week of August. This global campaign, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and Ministries of Health around the world, aims to raise awareness of the role of…

Uganda is experiencing a nutritional crisis in its refugee reception centers, where thousands of refugees arrive daily desperately in need of food and medical care.  UNICEF recently reported that the increase in refugee arrivals, particularly from Democratic Republic of Congo,…

Resilient. Confident. Powerful. Meet Florance, and it won’t take long for you to see each of these qualities reflected in her. It’s in her easy smile and the warm embrace of her children. In her pride, as she gives a…

When you enter the clinic, the outside light fills the front lobby, reflecting off the smooth cement floors. You tread carefully on the slick surface, made finer from years of patients and medical officers traversing the hallways. The light bends around the corner into a dark corridor. Peering through, you see patients moving through the darkened hallway, the feet…

He was forced to flee his childhood home three times, but now Fidel has built a stable life with his wife and they’ve welcomed a baby of their own.

Experience shows that if you provide something for a mother – medicine, training – she almost always uses it to help her family…

What should have been a joyous occasion turned to heartbreak for Jocelyne, a 27-year-old woman living in a village in rural Haiti…