News & Stories
Press & Media
Releases, named spokespeople and a media line that reaches a person. We will also tell you when we think a story is wrong.
Releases
Recent announcements
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Research 2 August 2026
Community health worker trial results published in the Journal of Global Primary Care
A four-year cluster-randomised trial across six districts finds door-to-door screening by paid community health workers reduced under-five mortality by 31%.
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Emergency 19 July 2026
Emergency teams deployed to northern Mozambique following cyclone
Four mobile medical teams are covering eleven displacement sites, with cholera treatment capacity established ahead of the first confirmed case.
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Programmes 30 June 2026
Eleventh programme transferred to national health system ownership
The maternal health programme in northern Ghana completes handover after nine years, with all 38 clinics remaining open and nationally staffed.
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Partnership 11 June 2026
Five-year maternal health agreement signed with the Ministry of Health, Ghana
The agreement extends the referral network to a further four districts and commits both parties to a published handover date.
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Governance 24 May 2026
Annual report and audited accounts published for 2025
Programme spending held at 89 cents in the dollar. The report includes the evaluation of two programmes closed during the year.
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Statement 8 April 2026
Statement on funding withdrawal from three regional programmes
A donor policy change reduces our 2027 income by an estimated 4%. No clinic closures are planned; the shortfall is absorbed from reserves.
Who to ask for
Spokespeople
Ask for the person whose subject it is. Interviews are arranged through the press office, and our people speak in their own words rather than from an approved line.
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Dr. Amina Okonjo
Chief Executive
Organisational strategy, health system partnerships, sector funding
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Dr. Samuel Bergström
Medical Director
Clinical protocols, maternal and child health, treatment outcomes
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Hannah Delacroix
Director of Emergency Response
Deployments, outbreak response, humanitarian coordination
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Dr. Chen Wei
Director of Research
Trial design, evaluation methodology, open data
Working with us
What we ask of coverage
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People, not subjects
Patients are named only with their written consent, and that consent can be withdrawn after publication. We will not supply imagery of identifiable patients without it.
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Numbers in context
We will always give you the denominator and the confidence interval. If a figure is an estimate we will say so, and we would rather you print that than a rounder number.
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No white saviour framing
Ninety-four per cent of our staff are citizens of the countries they work in. Coverage that presents this work as done by foreigners is inaccurate, and we will say so.