Population Services International

06/04/2026

Behind every effective emergency outbreak response are the health workers who make it possible.

Health workers are often at the forefront of health security and pandemic preparedness—identifying life-threatening disease, reporting cases to ministries of health, countering misinformation, treating patients, and containing further outbreaks—often in under-resourced settings and at great personal risk.

As the Ebola outbreak continues in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we stand with the health workers, organizations, and governments working swiftly and effectively to keep communities safe.

06/03/2026

In northwest Nigeria, nearly one in three girls becomes a mother by age 19. PSI’s Adolescents 360 program is working with girls like Zainab to design care that listens to their lives, questions, and realities.

Five months pregnant and newly married, Zainab gained the support, information, and confidence to ask questions and make decisions about her health on her own terms—alongside her husband.

When girls and young women are part of designing their care, health becomes dialogue, trust, and shared responsibility—among partners, families, and communities.

Read how A360 is co-creating care with girls like Zainab: https://bit.ly/4uMkPB5

06/01/2026

What happens when support is built around trust?

For many men living with HIV, staying connected to care can start with a conversation with someone who has been there too.

In South Africa, Coach Mpilo, funded by the Gates Foundation and implemented by PSI and Matchboxology, connects men with trained peer coaches who understand the stigma, questions and realities that can come with starting or returning to treatment.

Read the full story to learn how Coach Mpilo is helping more men stay connected to care: https://bit.ly/43KgylK

05/28/2026

When menstrual health is treated as optional, women and girls pay the price — in school, at work, and in daily life.

For too many, managing menstruation still depends on what they can access: trusted information, affordable products, toilets, and support without shame.

This , the numbers show what happens when menstrual health is left out of the systems women and girls already depend on.

Menstrual health is health. Progress means making it part of those systems, because dignity should not be out of reach.

05/26/2026

05/25/2026

Promising health solutions can't scale when they are formed in silos.

On the sidelines of , PSI co-hosted a side event with Baraka Impact Finance and Global Health Investment Corporation focused on moving health innovation from idea to investment and impact. During the event, PSI’s NEXUS Project Director Abi Winskell spoke about the opportunities and challenges in scaling high-impact health innovations.

Together, we brought leaders across global health, innovation, implementation, and finance into the same room to ask what it really takes to move promising solutions closer to scale.

Learn more about NEXUS and the work behind this conversation: https://bit.ly/4dR12uf

05/20/2026

The front door to care is already open.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, many people turn to pharmacies first — because they are close, trusted, flexible, and easier to reach. But too often, pharmacies are still treated like they sit outside the health system, instead of being formally equipped to strengthen it.

Through programs spanning immunization, HIV prevention, malaria testing, and private sector surveillance, we’re working with pharmacists to expand quality care where people already seek it.

The infrastructure is there. The trust is there. The skills are there. Now policy and investment need to catch up.

🔗 Read more on why pharmacies may be one of the most underused pathways for expanding access to care: https://bit.ly/4nyBaGN

05/19/2026

What happens when women’s health innovation exists, but still doesn’t reach the women who need it most?

Too often, solutions don’t scale far enough to reach the women and markets where access gaps are greatest. In low- and middle-income countries, that gap can keep affordable care out of reach.

That’s why we built NEXUS — to connect women’s health innovators with the market insight, delivery expertise, and investment pathways needed to move from bold ideas to real-world access.

Because innovation can’t change lives if it never reaches people.

🔗 Read more on why women’s health innovation is ready — and what it will take to make sure women aren’t left waiting: https://bit.ly/4dR12uf

05/18/2026

Too many people still have to overcome distance, cost, and broken systems just to access basic care. More than 4.6 billion people still lack access to essential health services.

At , the challenge isn’t naming the gap. It’s closing it by working alongside local governments, health workers, and communities to remove the barriers that keep affordable, quality care out of reach.

That’s what it takes to transform health: solutions shaped by local insight and designed to work where people seek care every day — across communities, markets, and health systems.

Because real progress takes more than ambition. It takes action that reaches people. We have an opportunity to move from innovation to impact faster. Let’s use this moment to build delivery models that meet people where they are.