Each year, Medical Teams celebrates World Breastfeeding Week, a time set aside to come together as a global community to raise awareness and increase action on breastfeeding. In many of the countries Medical Teams and other humanitarian organizations serve in,…

In mid-February, Medical Teams welcomed Lauren Taylor as our Chief of International Programs. Lauren came to Medical Teams with a wealth of experience in international relief and development and working in fragile contexts. Prior to Medical Teams, she served as…

If you’ve never had dental pain, consider yourself lucky! When a tooth hurts, it can be hard to focus on anything else. Regular activities — even eating and sleeping — can become herculean tasks with dental pain. A visit to…

This week, Integral Alliance — a network of Christian humanitarian organizations Medical Teams belongs to — released a new report about the factors driving neglected crises. A “neglected crisis” occurs when people are hurting and need help, but there isn’t…

It’s no secret that it hasn’t been an easy year — again — for our hurting world. From Gaza to Sudan, there has been no shortage of suffering. But as we did our mid-year check-in here at Medical Teams, we…

This year, the world reached a grim milestone: the highest number of displaced people ever recorded has been topped again. At the end of 2023, more than 117 million people around the world were forced to leave home, an 8…

On World Refugee Day, we’re celebrating the people we serve alongside who are refugees themselves and still give back. Our community-led health care model is propelled by people like Semira, Kiffa, and Mohammad — those who know the experiences of…

At Medical Teams, we think a lot about maternal health care — in complex humanitarian environments, it’s often women and children who face the greatest risk of mortality from disease or lack of access to health care. But today, we’re…

At Medical Teams, we talk a lot about “providing life-saving medical care.” But we also know that can be hard to picture, especially thousands of miles away from where care is happening. No matter what country our programs are in,…

When Eva gave birth to her son Meshake, she was delirious with happiness. For the first few months of his life, he was a sweet, smiling boy. But when her son was just six months old, Eva began having difficulties…

Whenever the topic of mental health comes up, there’s a term used over again and again: psychological first aid. And yet, it’s not always clear exactly what that means. “First aid” might conjure images of a kit with band-aids and…

Maybe you’ve seen a news report about people crossing the world’s deadliest jungle, or maybe you read our Colombia Country Director’s moving reflection on the courage of the people he’s seen as they prepare to cross the Darién Gap. However…