MCD Global Health

12/19/2025

During bad weather🌩️🌨️, you can still access vital care through telehealth💻! Here’s an example of how MCD has helped deploy telehealth technology👉 https://loom.ly/w82Ky2M

12/18/2025

🎉Five years of progress in Gabon🎉! Through strong partnerships, HIV prevention and care have expanded, coordination has improved, and more people are getting the support they need. This is what sustained collaboration can achieve💪. 👉Read more: https://loom.ly/1SdGItc https://loom.ly/1SdGItc UNAIDS

12/16/2025

📣In our December newsletter, read about HIV care, new Board members, malaria research, conference recap, and more!➡️ https://loom.ly/zkj0ob8

12/15/2025

See how an award-winning public-private partnership has resulted in a 75% reduction in malaria among children and a staggering 97% drop in mosquito transmission rates on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea: https://bit.ly/4q4SDGR

12/15/2025

📣We recently received a HRSA grant to strengthen provider retention in Maine’s rural Northern Border Region🎉. The project will expand training, placement, and supervision for practitioners across the substance use disorder workforce, helping more communities get the care they need. 👉Learn more: https://loom.ly/HRX6-Bg

12/10/2025

12/09/2025

📣Our Digital Health team is working with the Maine Seacoast Mission to improve access to care through telehealth technology for Maine island residents, reducing costs and time that these residents face accessing off-island providers! 👉Learn more: https://loom.ly/aXfC4qc

12/08/2025

🚨RESEARCH ALERT🚨New research from our Bioko Island Malaria Elimination Project (BIMEP) shows that routine household visits for indoor residual spraying are also an effective way to reach target populations, as needed.

This paper illustrates the case of how pregnant women were reached to discuss their malaria prevention practices🦟. Many knew about bed nets, but fewer used the recommended preventive malaria treatment (IPTp), pointing to a need for stronger awareness and follow-up.

This highlights the potential for cross-leveraging interventions to improve resources and impact. 👉Read more: https://loom.ly/zYfdc3Q

12/05/2025

🎉Congrats to the New England Rural Health Association in receiving a $1.6 million grant from HRSA to support a new training and placement initiative in Vermont and New Hampshire, improving access to behavioral health and substance use disorder services for rural communities! Learn more below 👇

The award totals $1.6 million over four years and will support training, placement and sustainability efforts to strengthen the behavioral health workforce across rural Vermont and New Hampshire

12/05/2025

Despite growing threats, global efforts have prevented an estimated 170M cases and 1M deaths in 2024.

Today, 47 countries and 1 territory are malaria-free, with , and certified this year. And 24 countries now report fewer than 10 cases a year.

12/04/2025

📣The World Health Organization (WHO)'s 2025 World Malaria Report is now available!📣 One MILLION lives were saved from malaria in 2024 alone, yet malaria remains a serious global health challenge, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. 👉View the report: https://loom.ly/UjbnlcU

12/03/2025

🎉Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities🎉, a reminder that accessibility in health care isn’t optional — it’s essential. People with disabilities still face avoidable barriers when seeking preventive care and screenings. As one contributor in our recent webinar shared:

“Patients have had very, very bad experiences … these experiences are a legitimate trauma response to incidences within the medical system,” said Dr. Tisha Titus, who is double board certified in general preventive medicine/public health and addiction medicine.

Our Screening for All initiative is working to enact needed changes by offering vital resources that make preventive screenings more accessible to everyone, in every setting! Learn more👉 https://loom.ly/c3mrIi8