CMMB Partners with Healey International Relief Foundation to Expand Noncommunicable Disease CareFreetown, Sierra Leone, March 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is expanding its Noncommunicable Disease Impact Initiative (NCDI) to Sierra Leone through a new phase of collaboration with Healey International Relief Foundation. The organizations have partnered for over a decade under CMMB’s Access to Medicines Program, and this expansion builds on that longstanding relationship. First piloted in Kenya, the initiative will increase access to first-line treatment for diabetes and hypertension—two of the leading causes of death globally and key contributors to the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Sierra Leone.
CMMB, with P&G Support, Responds to Deadly Cholera and Hunger Crisis in South SudanJuba, South Sudan, Aug. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is launching an emergency response in South Sudan as compounding crises threaten thousands of lives in Upper Nile region and Central Equatoria State. The devastating cholera outbreak has already infected more than 85,700 people as of August 5—many of them children under 14—with case fatality rates at times exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) emergency thresholds. Meanwhile, a hunger crisis deepens across most of the country.
CMMB Introduces Derek Yach as New Global Health AdvisorPublic health leader Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, will advance CMMB’s noncommunicable disease initiatives
