Improving children's health is a critical part of our work. More than 15,000 children under five are still dying every day—many from illnesses that would be so easy to prevent: pneumonia, malaria—even diarrhea. We’re working to nourish children and mothers, educate communities, and help protect the most vulnerable from everyday illness.
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2019-2024In the Every Girl Can program in Mozambique, the proportion of girls and young women who have sought reproductive healthcare in the last 12 months increased from
3.2% to 55.3%Mozambique | 2022-2024963,800patient consultations were provided by community health workers through projects supported by World Vision.
300,072children received deworming treatment to support their health and development.
2,565,000ready-to-use therapeutic food packets were distributed, providing a source of emergency nutrition for malnourished children.
2024 analysis of our Positive Deviance/Hearth model in 70 projects across 18 countries revealed that 281 children’s lives had been saved over five years.
2023 analysis of our Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition programs in 39 projects across 20 countries revealed that for every $1 invested, $16.8 is generated in health benefits—including 6,274 lives saved over three years.
In 2024, $42.8 million was invested in 70 programs focused on health and nutrition. These programs reached 451,013 girls, 420,131 boys, 548,102 women, and 393,325 men. Thailand, a country considered as high developing, emerged in 2024 as the top recipient country in the Health sector, where the Stop TB and AIDS program supported fighting infectious diseases and strengthened health systems.
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At 18 years old, Laila is already a leader in her community in Tanzania. She’s a lead volunteer for the Accelerated Hope and Development for Urban Adolescents project in partnership with Global Affairs Canada. The project provides a safe space for adolescent girls and boys to become empowered with knowledge about adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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What does gender equality have to do with health? Plenty. Because women and girls are less valued, it can mean an empty stomach as they eat least and last. That means more malnutrition and its related, negative health effects, including severe anemia and babies at greater risk of death before age 5. The children that do survive are more likely to suffer from poor growth and brain development, which only perpetuates a cycle of poverty and malnutrition.
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Access to basic healthcare is critical to solving poverty. According to the World Health Organization, about 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year due to out-of-pocket spending on health. Here’s a scenario illustrating how a family can move from illness to poverty simply because of a lack of affordable healthcare.
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Help provide access to healthcare, much-needed medicines, food, supplies and more to children and families.
