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Hepatitis Can't Wait and Neither Can the Communities FIMRC Serves blog clinical observations costa rica ecuador fimrc global health volunteer program medical professional medical student peru professional development public health summer international health fellowship travel volunteer experience Jul 24, 2026

Every 30 seconds, someone in the world dies from complications related to chronic hepatitis — including cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Not because the tools to prevent it do not exist. Effective vaccines, accurate diagnostics, curative treatments for hepatitis C, and long-term therapies for hepatitis ...

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Preventing Child Malnutrition in Ecuador Through Community Partnerships blog community stories ecuador fimrc fimrc programs global health volunteer program maternal & child health medical professional medical student public health travel volunteer volunteer experience Jul 17, 2026

In Anconcito, Ecuador, chronic child malnutrition is not a statistic that lives in a report.

It shows up in a child's height at a routine screening. In the results of a cognitive assessment. In the long arc of a life shaped, before the age of five, by what the body did not receive when it needed it...

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Celebrating Independence Through Service This July 4th blog careers in global health costa rica ecuador fimrc global health global health volunteer program medical professional medical student peru professional development public health summer international health fellowship travel uganda Jul 06, 2026

 In 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded America's first volunteer fire brigade after a ship fire tore through a wharf, warehouses, and neighboring houses in Philadelphia. Twenty-six neighbors signed up. More followed.

That instinct, to organize, to show up, to solve a problem together rather than wait ...

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World Refugee Day 2026: When Fleeing Home Means Losing Healthcare Too blog community stories costa rica ecuador fimrc fimrc partnerships global health volunteer program health equity medical professional medical student peru public health travel uganda volunteer Jun 19, 2026

Seventy-five years ago, after the Second World War, the world made a promise: people forced to flee have the right to seek safety and protection. It was never meant for a few. It was meant for all of us.

That promise has not been kept.

The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has reached ...

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Why Blood Donation Matters, A Global Health Perspective blog costa rica ecuador fimrc fimrc programs ghvp global health volunteer program medical professional medical student peru public health summer international health fellowship travel uganda volunteer Jun 12, 2026

A woman delivers her baby in a rural health post in Bududa. There are complications. She is hemorrhaging. The nearest blood bank is hours away, and even if a vehicle were available right now, the roads make the journey uncertain.

This is not a hypothetical. It is a scenario that plays out across lo...

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Unmasking Tobacco's Appeal: Global Health Work on the Frontline blog costa rica ecuador fimrc fimrc programs global health global health volunteer program medical professional medical student peru public health travel uganda volunteer volunteer experience May 29, 2026

In Uganda, youth smoking prevalence sits at 5.7%. In Peru, e-cigarette use among adolescents has shown a significant increase in recent years. In Costa Rica and Ecuador, flavored nicotine products are moving fast through markets that were not ready to regulate them.

Behind every one of those number...

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World Hypertension Day: The Silent Killer FIMRC Volunteers Face Daily blog community stories costa rica ecuador fimrc ghvp global health volunteer program medical professional medical student peru professional development public health sihf summer international health fellowship travel uganda volunteer volunteer experience May 22, 2026

A woman in Bududa has had headaches for months. She assumes it is exhaustion, she wakes before sunrise, tends to her crops, cooks, cleans, and cares for four children. She has never had her blood pressure checked.

In Huancayo, a man in his forties has not seen a doctor in years. The nearest clinic ...

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What Global Health Volunteers Learn From the World’s Nurses blog costa rica ecuador fimrc fimrc programs ghvp global health volunteer program maternal & child health medical professional medical student nursing peru primary care professional development public health summer international health fellowship travel travel nursing uganda volunteer volunteer experience May 15, 2026

712 women die every day from preventable pregnancy-related causes. Most of them never saw a doctor. Many of them saw a nurse — or saw no one at all.

In most health systems, nurses are the first point of contact — the ones who assess, triage, educate, comfort, and follow up. In low-resource communit...

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This Mother’s Day, Meet The Women FIMRC Volunteers Show Up For blog community stories costa rica ecuador fimrc ghvp global health volunteer program health equity maternal & child health medical professional medical student peru professional development public health travel uganda volunteer volunteer experience May 08, 2026

There's a version of Mother's Day that doesn't make it onto greeting cards.

It looks like a woman in Huancayo walking two hours on a mountain trail to reach the nearest health post. A mother in Bududa navigating childbirth in a facility that lacks the basic equipment her situation demands. A first-...

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The Simplest Tool in Global Health and Why Volunteers Still Have to Fight For It blog costa rica ecuador fimrc fimrc programs ghvp global health global health volunteer program medical professional medical student nursing peru primary care professional development public health travel uganda volunteer volunteer experience May 01, 2026

Soap and water. That's it.

Of all the interventions in public health, handwashing consistently ranks among the most effective at preventing infectious disease — respiratory illness, diarrhea, healthcare-associated infections, even maternal sepsis. It costs almost nothing. It requires no prescriptio...

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