How the Wawared project is using technology to collect and share health data that will improve the lives of women and, perhaps eventually, everyone in the nation. In much of the developing world, women suffer higher rates of maternal mortality and morbidity than necessary — most of the causes of ill health that lead to […]
Peru
Fighting malaria in Northern Peru
When large-scale irrigation came to Peru’s north coast in the 1960s and 1970s it brought with it an explosion in agriculture, in particular rice cultivation. But it also brought a new disease to the area — malaria. “The north coast is a semi-arid area, the only reason there is malaria there is because of irrigation,” […]