Myanmar’s Crumbling Health Care and Ethiopia’s Nutrition Partnerships

Editors' Note

Relief and recovery efforts are replacing rescue attempts in Myanmar, almost two weeks after devastating earthquakes killed more than 3,600 and injured 5,000. In this edition, Global Health Partnerships' Jonathon Foster and Thinn Thinn Hlaing emphasize how the natural disaster has placed more strain on the country's medical system, which has been under violent attack since the 2021 coup.

In Ethiopia, climate change is weakening crop yields, worsening malnutrition, and increasing susceptibility to diseases. To ensure those issues do not undermine achievements in well-being or spawn economic hurdles, Dereje Duguma, Ethiopia's state minister for health services and programs, outlines how his government is enlisting new partners to ensure the country's lasting success with nutrition.

This Sunday, Ecuador's presidential candidates—incumbent President Daniel Noboa and opposition leftist candidate Luisa González—will compete in a runoff election. Journalist Andersson Boscán reports how surging violence, fueled by organized crime, has influenced the campaign season.

Traveling to India, journalist and physician Christianez Ratna Kiruba comments on how the National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite Envenoming will help the government allocate its stock of antivenom to high-incidence regions and save lives in a country where snakebites cause approximately 58,000 deaths per year.

Until next week!—Nsikan Akpan, Managing Editor, and Caroline Kantis, Associate Editor