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    Noncommunicable Diseases and Foreign Policy on Global Health

    by David P. Fidler

    The pandemic and climate change will deepen foreign policy disinterest in NCDs

    Villagers ride a motorcycle in a haze hit Dumai, in Indonesia's Riau provinc
    Governance

    Criminalizing HIV Slows Progress

    by Deepa Jahagirdar

    Discriminatory laws keep people from seeking care and prevention information

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    Gender

    Women in China After Zero-COVID

    by Chen Chen

    China’s future will be determined by its gender policies

    Women delegates in ethnic minority costumes leave the Great Hall of the People following the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China March 4, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
    Governance

    Coronavirus in Ecuador

    by Fernando Sacoto, Irene Torres

    Pandemic highlights need for a future broad, multidisciplinary, independent commission to inform science-based decisions

    Soldiers on the Ecuadoran side of the border with Colombia, in Tufino, Ecuador, after their government announced the closure of borders to all foreign travelers due to coronavirus on March 15, 2020. The photo shows a border crossing with a large sign reading, Ecuador, and several soldiers in the frame. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia
    Governance

    No Future But A Shared Future

    by Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Sam F. Halabi, Katie Gottschalk, Katherine Ginsbach

    An excerpt from "Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness"

    People wander through a COVID memorial made of 26,661 white flags at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, on November 20, 2021.
    Gender

    World Health Assembly and Gender: Three Steps Forward, Many More to Go

    by Roopa Dhatt

    Yesterday’s resolution moves towards equity, but misses three key marks—fair pay, better data, and smarter funding

    Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), walks past the WHO headquarters during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 18, 2020. The photo shows the buildings with the official in front on a brilliant spring day with a clear blue sky. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
    Poverty

    We Need a Greater Commitment to Community Health

    by Ruth Ngechu-Kihara

    Community health care should be enshrined in national and local budgets, similar to education and other health spending

    A call for funding community health alongside other types of health care—like the nurses who staff the national hospital in Nairobi, Kenya seen here during the coronavirus outbreak on May 28, 2020. The photo shows a field of nurses exercising in a field. REUTERS
    Governance

    Coronavirus in Ukraine

    by Judy Twigg

    In heat of pandemic, Ukraine’s American and European partners shouldn’t let their support of one valuable ally grow cold

    A woman wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic walks along the empty main street Khreshchatyk in central Kyiv, Ukraine on March 30, 2020—a colorful sign behind her bears the name of the city. This is a striking photo with a stylish woman walking in front of a sign with the city's name. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
    Governance

    Getting School Health Right in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    by Luke Shors, Linda Schultz

    School nutrition and health programs took a hit during COVID, now it's time to reinforce these school-based safety nets 

    The legs and feet of students wearing blue dresses, white stockings, and black shoes can be seen standing in queues at the Viqarunnisa Noon School & College, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 12, 2021.
    Aging

    The Disturbing Details Behind a Dip in U.S. Life Expectancy 

    by Mary Brophy Marcus

    A deep drop among American Indian and Alaska Native peoples is linked to policy failures that predate the pandemic

    A close-up of the hands of Charles Norman Shay, a member of the Penobscot Nation and a World War II veteran, holding a picture of his mother Florence. Photo taken in Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse, France, on May 18, 2019.
    Food

    Children, Hunger, Stress, and Coronavirus

    by Hannah Todd, Nicky Joseph

    We need to identify at-risk U.S. children and expand safety nets worldwide to keep kids fed, immunized, and looked after

    Four of the world's two billion children under the age of fourteen sit on a bench in the playground at St John's Primary School in in London on July 16, 2020 amid the spread of coronavirus. The photo shows four kids on a bench. One of them is looking at the camera. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs
    Food

    COVID-Era Learning Loss Tied to Food Insecurity

    by Louisa Ewald, Claire Henson, Emmanuela Gakidou

    New data points to food security as a predicator of academic success during the pandemic

    Elementary school students wearing protective masks return to full-time face-to-face classes for the first time.