I found out that I had TB by chance. I was 22 years old, in my third year of my bachelor’s degree in communications at the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. I was having different tests done in preparation for surgery, as I had problems with my nose and was having trouble breathing. The last test was a chest X-Ray, and when the result came back, I had a shock: It showed I likely had tuberculosis.

I had thought of TB as a normal bacterial illness that anyone

Community health workers are at the heart of what we do – they are critical to fighting HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, and achieving universal health coverage. They expand access to basic primary health care services in remote areas and with marginalized populations, and perform critical work to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks in the communities they serve. They carry out home visits, provide health information, test for and treat simple illnesses, refer people to primary h

Through Voix EssentiELLES, Farida Fights for the Rights of Women and Girls in Burkina Faso

When Farida Tiemtoré was a 23-year-old student she had big dreams.

“I said to myself, ‘Why not create something on the internet to enable people to get the right information?’ Straightaway, the blog let me connect with girls and with female role models. I wanted these role models to share their experience to support other girls and women.”

Farida’s blog, Les Héroïnes du Faso (the Heroines of Faso) quick