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Women receive free treatment for breast cancer at the Bertha Calderon Women's Hospital, in Managua, Nicaragua, on October 17, 2012.
Governance

Declarations Without Delivery: Weighing UN Plans for NCD Medicine Access

by Alejandra Martinez, Prashant Yadav

International commitments to expand access to noncommunicable disease medicines have been slow to create impact

The Global COVID-19 Contract Conundrum
Trade

The Global COVID-19 Contract Conundrum

by Bridie Telford, Julia Barnes-Weise, Laura Hoemeke

The critical role of contracts in determining access to COVID-19 vaccines

Trade

Back to Basics After COVID-19

by Sonya Stokes
Addressing pandemic preparedness after COVID-19 will require going deeper than the surface. Here a worker sanitizes surfaces inside the Inox Leisure movie theatre in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2020. The photo is striking, showing a worker spraying disinfectant wearing a blue suit descending down a theater staircase where all the seats and carpet are bright red. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni
Poverty

A Wake-Up Call Both Brutal and Urgent

by Tamara Hafner, Javier Guzman
A pharmacist holds a medicine containing chlorine dioxide at the Farmacia Boliviana, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on July 21, 2020. The photo shows a man wearing a mask holding up a wine glass filled with a bright yellow liquid. REUTERS/Danilo Balderrama
Poverty

Handwashing Is Crucial for Combating Coronavirus

by Alemnesh H. Mirkuzie, Awoke Misganaw Temesgen, Michael Brauer
Proportion of population with no access to hand-washing in 2019. The map shows that hand-washing access is lowest in low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean.