Circling the Globe with Jhpiego

Snapshots of difference-making nurses and midwives the world over

While so much of the world rightly focuses on COVID-19, the need for nurse leadership on malaria, cancer, HIV, childbirth, and aging—as well as coronavirus—continues in each of the 41 countries served by Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University.

These pages feature a glimpse at a few of the places where Jhpiego, a global health organization led by a nurse in its CEO and President Leslie Mancuso, has been making a difference.

Read more about the lives in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas touched by Jhpiego at jhpiego.org/stories.

From top: Sarita Yadav, a staff nurse at Jankipuram Urban Primary Health Care Center in Uttar Pradesh, India, urges women to visit her at the local facility for clinical breast exams if they notice any abnormality—such as pain or a mass (Tanushree Sharma/Jhpiego); staff nurse Madhuri Pawar screens a pregnant client in the gestational diabetes mellitus clinic at Betul District Hospital in India (India/Jhpiego); Community Health Officer Gertrude Doku, a nurse at Ghana’s Tinkong CHPS Compound, shares the results of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for malaria with a client (Emmanuel Attramah/PMI-Impact Malaria).

Jhpiego-trained nurse Khauhelo Monaheng, 26 (right), exuded both confidence and competence when he met Sister Maria Fatima Rakuoane, 96, admitted to Lesotho’s Berea Hospital with COVID-19. “She needed a lot of attention because she could not do much on her own,” says Monaheng, whose compassionate persistence finally won the faith of the nun 70 years his senior (Polo Matlalane Motsoari/Jhpiego).

Nurse Masiele Motlalepula instructs women at Nkoyaphiri Clinic in Gabarone, Botswana on how to self-collect their own specimens, and explains an innovative screening strategy for cervical cancer (Kate Holt/Jhpiego).

Nurse midwife Beatrice Bwaize celebrates a healthy delivery at Chato health facility in Geita, Tanzania. Dotto Wilson, a mother of six, survived a life-threatening childbirth complication thanks to Bwaize’s decision-making and care (Frank Kimaro/Jhpiego).