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Global Health

Explore impact stories and learn how your support helps partners strengthen health systems and provide essential care for individuals and communities around the world.

World Health Day – focusing on the smallest of all

The theme for World Health Day this year is “healthy beginnings, hopeful futures.” Global Ministries supports whole health systems, giving newborns a good start.
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Moms and babies arrive for a growth and development check-up in Mozambique. (Photo: Elizabeth McCormick)

United Methodist health care in Mozambique upholds tradition and expertise

Global Health unit staff visited health facilities to view improvements and discuss challenges in an area of the country hard-hit by cyclones in recent years.
Dr. Marie Claire Manafundu, who coordinates the church’s Maternal and Child Health Program in eastern Congo, talks with children outside of United Methodist Irambo Health Center in Bukavu, Congo. The United Methodist Church in East Congo offers food support to families affected by HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Philippe Kituka Lolonga, UM News)

Church gives hope to people living with HIV in Congo

Through funding from Global Ministries, more than 100 women living with HIV in the Kivu Conference are receiving counseling, transportation help and microcredit loans.

‘Zero malaria’ theme of World Malaria Day is the goal for UMC health work

Through various campaigns and long-term work in rural communities, United Methodist health practitioners in Africa have been working toward the goal of reducing malaria deaths and spreading affordable treatment options, information and prevention strategies across the communities most affected by the disease.

World Water Day focus: Methodist WASH projects in Bolivia and Ecuador

A Global Health partnership with Engineers in Action supplies rural Indigenous Methodist churches in Bolivia with restrooms and handwashing stations. In Ecuador, a new water source for nine communities nears completion

New facilities with enhanced care at Old Mutare Hospital in Zimbabwe

A partnership between Global Ministries’ Global Health program and the Zimbabwe UMC Health Board revitalizes United Methodist hospitals within the episcopal area. Old Mutare, a mission hospital founded by Methodist missionaries, is using new facilities, staff and equipment to continue its legacy of medical care in rural Zimbabwe.

World AIDS Day: Equalizing access to HIV resources

Together, Global Ministries’ Global Health program and UMC health boards support about 75,000 pregnant women, new mothers and children in Africa with HIV and AIDS resources, drastically reducing mother to baby HIV transmission.

Clean water flows in rural Côte d’Ivoire communities

No longer having to source water from contaminated rivers, streams and wells, four villages draw clean potable water through newly built water towers with pump and wash stations.

Stopping the spread of cholera in North Katanga

Global Health partners with the North Katanga UMC for a cholera campaign that provides more treatment options and prevention measures, but also aims to change the understanding of entire communities about water safety and sanitation to stop the disease in its tracks.

World breast-feeding week – small steps for success 

Having a breastfeeding support system through local community-based health care providers supported by Global Ministries can make all the difference for young mothers trying to nourish their babies.

Health center in Central Congo is revived

A health center attacked and looted in Central Congo makes a comeback after several years of intensive work on facilities, equipment, pharmacy supplies and training for personnel by the Central Congo Health Board, supported by Global Ministries’ Global Health team.

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