ROCKVILLE, Md -
Monday, 20. April 2026
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The
Inteleos Foundation today announced five recipients of its 2026
MedMissions Award, supporting maternal health ultrasound access in
Malawi, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d’Ivoire. The annual award
advances locally led nonprofit initiatives that expand point-of-care
ultrasound training, strengthen referral pathways, and improve care for
high-risk pregnancies in resource-limited settings.
In its eighth year of operation, the MedMissions Award confronts one
of global health's most urgent crises — 5 billion people without access
to medical imaging — building the evidence base and partnerships needed
to make ultrasound accessible to all.
2026 MedMissions Award Recipients
This year, the Foundation has selected the following nonprofit
organizations to drive locally-led maternal health interventions in five
nations:
- GAIA Global Health: Expanding access to quality
obstetric ultrasound services to support safer pregnancies and
deliveries in rural communities in Malawi.
- Seed Global Health: Expanding point-of-care
ultrasound training and services to strengthen maternal and newborn care
in health facilities across Sierra Leone.
- Kenyatta University: Deploying ultrasound to
improve early detection and referral for high-risk pregnancies in remote
informal settlements of Nairobi County, Kenya.
- Babies and Mothers Alive Foundation: Improving the
quality of obstetric care by integrating point-of-care ultrasound into
routine antenatal practice in health facilities in Uganda’s Greater
Masaka region.
- Muso: Enhancing ultrasound capacity for frontline providers to improve obstetric and perinatal outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire.
The MedMissions Award establishes a consortium of health-focused
organizations and local Ministries of Health to advance point-of-care
ultrasound training and referral pathways for frontline health workers
in remote communities across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Selected awardees will use an outcomes-based approach to evaluate
patient health outcomes, ultrasound utilization, and community adoption.
These partnerships are designed to help translate field-level evidence
into national policy, long-term workforce capacity, and more sustainable
health system integration. For the Inteleos Foundation, these
interventions will establish critical infrastructure and replicable
education models that will drive universal access to medical imaging for
health providers and their patients.
To learn more about MedMissions, visit: https://inteleosfoundation.org/medical-missions
Inteleos Foundation
The Inteleos Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that fosters
community-led, outcomes-driven technology interventions that transform
patient care in low-resourced communities. Our work is guided by three
key priorities: enriching healthcare provider training and certification
in medical imaging, catalyzing workforce development with ultrasound to
advance economic opportunities in healthcare, and addressing gaps in
diagnostic service delivery across health systems through network
collaboration.
Contacts :
Samantha Forcum
Director of the Inteleos Foundation
Foundation@Inteleos.org
(240) 386-1710
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