Personal Connections

Allie Hunter, Director, Community Health Solutions, shares her personal experiences with addiction in her family, and how she got into this work because she wants to help others who are struggling. Allie says that as a family member, she felt helpless and didn’t know how to help her sister after ten overdoses. She didn’t have the tools or knowledge to understand addiction, and she felt like she was failing her sister.

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Healthcare systems are under pressure almost everywhere, but the strain is especially visible in lower-resource settings where demand is rising faster than infrastructure. In Pakistan, that pressure is playing out across a system that has to serve more than 250 million people with limited public investment. Public health spending remains below 1% of GDP,…

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