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How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam

How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam

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Southeast Asia is harnessing technology to equip parents with better information about childhood nutrition

A U.S.-European Measles Moment

A U.S.-European Measles Moment

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The unfortunate return of a potentially fatal virus can be blamed on one thing

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

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Why does the WHO matter? Its global health coordination makes surgical care more affordable and effective for everyone

People waiting for treatment at a hospital after undergoing cataract removals from a free but shoddy eye surgery camp that caused them to lose their vision—in Amritsar, India, on December 5, 2014. The photo shows several people sitting on hospital beds. One man in the foreground is wearing dark glasses. REUTERS/Munish Sharma

Children, Hunger, Stress, and Coronavirus

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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

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

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Newly launched interactive visualization tool will help measure and track access to contraceptives and guide programs

Jiejin Qiu, six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai on September 5, 2014—as China began easing its one-child policy. The photo shows the expecting mother floating underwater in a dream-like shot. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Shifting Front Lines in West Africa

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Leveraging community health promoters to protect vulnerable populations against COVID- 19 and other threats in Nigeria

Public transport bus staff offers hand-sanitizer to a passenger who is about to board the bus on the first day of the easing of the lockdown measures during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lagos, Nigeria May 4, 2020. The photo shows a bus driver dispensing sanitizer to passengers as they board. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Why the WHO?

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The World Health Organization is essential to convening scientific experts and the world’s best thinking on COVID-19

The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, May 18, 2020. The photo shows the WHO HQ. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Diagnostic Gaps in Global Health

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Lack of diagnostic capacity in primary care impacts patient outcomes, damages health systems, and lowers health security

A woman at a clinic in Olenguruone, Kenya on Oct. 29, 2013 undergoes an eye exam, cataract check, and retinal scan with a technology using smartphones that uploads the data to a doctor for analysis. The photo shows a mature woman wearing a bright orange scarf taking an eye test, holding a green patch to her left eye and raising her right hand in front of her face. REUTERS/Noor Khamis

Vaccine Hesitancy, an Escalating Danger in Africa

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Called one of the ten main threats to global health by WHO, vaccine hesitancy is pervasive, misinformed, and contagious

A woman waits at a polio immunization health center in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, on August 29, 2016. There is striking color in this photo. She has a bright orange scarf around her head and shoulders and leans against a brick wall that is painted dark red. She holds pink and blue copies of papers in her hands, and the light blue wall of a building can be seen in the background. She holds a bright red bag. The look on her face is serious. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

In Global Health, What’s Past Is Prologue

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The global health community cannot jury-rig its way to the future and requires fresh thinking to address new challenges

Nine-year-old Tumelo holds his grandmother's hand after taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg, on November 28, 2014. Picture shows a large adult hand and the lower part of a child’s face in the background as his own hand grasps his grandmother’s.