Healing Hands: filling the healthcare gap
Featured
•
55m
For many communities worldwide, healthcare depends on where you live, what you can afford, and who's willing to fill the gaps. In rural Colombia, an Air Force-backed medical brigade brings 70 doctors to communities that wait months for care. In Zimbabwe, traditional midwives deliver babies where hospitals are out of reach. In Baltimore, cancer patients and caregivers band together to navigate a treatment that can cost as much as the disease itself. And in Valencia, a hearing implant restores a sense some had given up on regaining.
This Big Story follows the people filling that gap with their own two hands: doctors, midwives, and volunteers offering one patient, one delivery, one small act of care at a time.
Up Next in Featured
-
Identity: Being Latin American
The documentary explores the rich and evolving identity of Latin America, revealing how centuries of indigenous traditions, colonization, migration, and cultural exchange have shaped the region and its people. Through compelling personal stories and perspectives from across the continent, it exam...
-
Running Dry: the Amazon on the edge
The Amazon river, the lifeblood of the world's largest rainforest, is drying up. Successive droughts driven by climate change have pushed water levels to historic lows, crippling the communities and ecosystems that depend on this great waterway. In the Amazonas State of Brazil, the consequences a...
-
This Week on Americas Now: What Patag...
What Patagonia Reveals About Our Climate Future
Patagonia’s iconic glaciers—including the world-famous Perito Moreno—are melting at unprecedented rates. With the United Nations declaring 2025 the International Year of Glacier Preservation, this year’s COP30 summit is spotlighting glacier loss and...
