ALIMA USA, The Alliance for International Medical Action: Recovering from Malnutrition in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is experiencing political instability that has plunged the country into one of the most serious migration crises in its history. Close to 2 million people have been displaced from their homes. Amssétou and her one-month old son Abdoul had to flee their home due to terrorist attacks. While fleeing, food was scarce, and […]
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Spring has officially sprung, and the excitement of this time of year is always a great feeling – especially after a long winter with several snow days and quarantine periods resulting from new waves of COVID-19. Though winter is behind us, continuing to combat COVID-19 and promote overall health around the world are top of […]
ALIMA USA, THE ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ACTION: Fighting against childhood malnutrition in Mali
Fifteen-month-old Bintou was first admitted to an outpatient treatment program at a community health center in Commune I of Bamako, Mali, suffering from malnutrition. Despite being monitored by the ALIMA and its local partner AMCP-SP (Medical Alliance Against Malaria – Population Health), Bintou was not gaining weight. The medical teams decided to hospitalize her and […]
ALIMA USA, THE ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ACTION: Giving Blood Saves Lives
When 35-year-old Maimuna was 37 weeks pregnant, she went into labor at her home in Monguno, in northeastern Nigeria, where she was living in a camp for internally displaced persons. This wasn’t her first time giving birth, but this time she experienced complications. By the time her neighbors brought her to the Mother and Child […]
ALIMA: Innovating to boost morale for isolated patients
Overcoming COVID-19 is on everyone’s mind. When will things go back to normal? How could this have happened? What can we do to prevent future outbreaks from occurring? This is the first time since the 1918 Spanish Flu that the U.S. has experienced a pandemic of this proportion. Unfortunately, that is not the case for […]
ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ACTION, THE (ALIMA): Surviving Ebola: Amadou’s story
Amadou Camara is one of more than 1,100 Ebola survivors in Guinea. The 55-year-old father of six lives in the village of Koropara, some 90 kilometers from N’Zerekore, in Guinea’s southeastern forest region, where the first Ebola case was recorded in December 2013. Between March 23, 2014, when Guinea’s Ministry of Health declared the outbreak, […]
