Child malnutrition in Africa is not a single problem with a single cause. For many families, it builds slowly from a combination of poverty, food insecurity, limited healthcare access, maternal health challenges and feeding difficulties that go unaddressed for months....
A long-awaited reunion is on the horizon! The Global Mercy™, after three consecutive field services in Sierra Leone, is preparing for a new mission in Ghana. “Mercy Ships has been so instrumental in furthering the health sector of Sierra Leone,” said...
Over the past three years, thousands of people have climbed up and down the gangway of the Global Mercy™ while she docked in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Some arrived seeking surgery for conditions that had kept them from school, work, or daily life. Healthcare...
Somewhere in the world right now, a person has gone blind from a condition that a 20-minute operation could fix. Cataracts remain the single leading cause of reversible vision loss globally, yet roughly half of all people who need cataract surgery still can't access...
Most Australians have never heard of obstetric fistula. Yet this serious childbirth injury affects thousands of women across parts of Africa and other low-resource regions every year. It develops when prolonged, obstructed labour goes without medical intervention, and...
Five billion people. That's how many people currently have no access to safe, timely, or affordable surgery, according to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. To put that number in context, it's nearly two and a half times the population of China. Without access...