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Systems & accessSeptember 8, 2026

Moldova and UNDP are buying prosthetics directly for citizens who cannot access them. The funding comes from China.

A Chinese-government-funded partnership with UNDP and Moldova's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection will purchase prosthetics and mobility aids for the country's most vulnerable people and upgrade the national prosthetics center.

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O&P's fabrication side is less visible than its clinical side. Three women working in it describe what getting in actually looked like.

A Q&A in The O&P EDGE asks Patience Nicholls, Kirstin Drexler, and a technician at Shriners Children's Greenville how they entered O&P fabrication, what the credential landscape looks like, and where the field still creates friction.

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Live in Motion Foundation named three new board members for 2026-2027. Two are credentialed O&P practitioners.

The Live in Motion Foundation added Lesleigh Sisson, Shree Thaker, and Brent Wright to its board of directors. Two of the three carry formal O&P credentials, which says something about how the foundation connects to the clinical field.

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Mark Geil retired from Kennesaw State after 28 years. Adjacent-discipline faculty are a quiet part of how O&P research infrastructure works.

Mark Geil, PhD, professor of biomechanics at Kennesaw State University's Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, retired after more than 28 years in the University System of Georgia. What the departure of senior biomechanics faculty means for the O&P field's research infrastructure, and why it doesn't show up in O&P workforce counts.

Sport & culture

Nigeria's amputee sport has the athletes. Olowookere Glory says the environment is 'not sustainable or encouraging.'

An interview in Sports247 Nigeria surfaces a structural question: what it takes to build a sports program on top of fundraising cycles and goodwill, without institutional backing that can outlast either.

Sport & culture

A Palestinian amputee wants to build a football team in Pakistan. The sport has been built this way before.

Arab News Pakistan reported this week on a Palestinian footballer who lost his leg and is trying to establish an amputee football program in Pakistan. An orientation to the sport, how it spreads to new countries, and what building something from the ground up actually involves.

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AOPA appointed an MD, PhD as its new healthcare director. The role is about clinical evidence and coverage arguments.

The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association named Andreas Kannenberg, MD, PhD, as healthcare director. Eli Park explains what the position is designed to do and why physician-researcher credentials matter in the coverage policy disputes currently shaping prosthetic access.

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