Today is World Malaria Day. Our Staff Health Team in Oxfam House have put together an atrium display about the disease, both to raise awareness of its impact on the lives of people we work with and also to make sure our staff always take the precautions they need to when travelling.  I'll keep this blog post quite short, but I wanted to share some of the facts about malaria with you. You've probably heard them before, but...

World leaders are meeting in London today to discuss the deepening humanitarian situation in Yemen.  Over half the population does not have access to clean water and Sana'a is predicted to be the first capital city in the world to run out of water. In the village of Al Katfah, in Northern Yemen, Saeedah, 35, and her family are struggling to secure enough water to meet their everyday needs.  ...

Oxfam is always looking at new ways to improve sanitation in its programmes and the Tiger Worm Toilet is just one novel method that is currently being trialled. With an estimated 2.6 billion people still without access to adequate sanitation, it's vital that we keeping looking for better, and more sustainable, ways of doing things.  ...

Here's an infographic from the king of infographics, David McCandless, showing just what a difference treatment can make for people living with AIDS. 85% of people die without treatment - compared to 20% with treatment. ...

Children cross a makeshift bridge over open sewage in Doe community, Monrovia, Liberia. Here Oxfam is building communal latrines and tap stands and training on how to look after their latrines. In the next phase of the project 200 people will receive a biofil latrine. ...

"We want water! need water! Water! Nothing else!" This was the urgent plea from the community in Al-Basaabias (sometimes known as Al-Madba), Yemen. I'd arrived to carry out an assessment of water and sanitation facilities in the village and others like it in the district. It was a remote and hard-to-reach area: a two-hour drive from Hodeidah city, then another half hour of off-road travel from the highway. ...

Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria is a dangerous distraction from effective public health measures. A scheme designed as a "silver bullet" to fight malaria could actually be endangering lives, says Oxfam, because medicines are being distributed by unqualified shopkeepers and hawkers rather than trained health workers.  In a new report, Salt, Sugar and Malaria Pills, published today, the international agency...

Oxfam loves the movies. We've got more than 500 videos on our channel and together people like you have watched them nearly 4 million times! For this week's chart, prepare to make it 4 million and ten - turn up the volume, ready your finger over that "share" button, and check out some of our favourite Oxfam videos. 1. Breakdancing pregnant women With more than 1.3m...

Aisha, Wafa and Hafsa never imagined that their tragedies would signal a wake-up call for the residents of their small village in western Yemen. The two sisters Wafa and Aisha and their cousin Hafsa got married in 2010, when they were all under 16 - as is the custom in their village. Wafa, who was married off at age 15 to a 28-year-old man, demanded a divorce after one year when her husband refused to let her continue her schooling....

Abbie Viveash was chosen after a UK-wide search to visit Oxfam's projects in Malawi and see first-hand how money donated to Oxfam is spent, meet the local people, ask questions and report back on her experience. She is not an existing Oxfam supporter.  ...