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students wearing colorful clothing enter a terracotta colored building in Kenya

The Steep Price of Education in Africa

by Emilie Maddison, Angela E. Micah

Education is unaffordable for many families in low- and middle-income countries

Food
A mother with long brown hair reads the label of a formula can in front of partially-empty grocery store shelves amid a nationwide shortage in Houston, Texas, on May 19, 2022.

How the U.S. Baby Formula Shortage Affects Low-Income Families

Families living in poverty are making impossible trade-offs between food, rent, and essentials like formula and diapers

dummy babies are used during a protest against the war in Ukraine
Migration

Let Ukraine Set the Example for How to Treat Children Caught in Conflict 

by Maja Pašović, Ali H. Mokdad, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Laurent Grosvenor

The world should protect the safety of children in all war zones, including those who don't make the news

A boy, suffering from an extensive burn injury, holds a pencil to write during a lesson inside his the classroom at a primary school in Zhuanji town, Anhui province, China, on November 15, 2011.
Poverty

A Burning Issue

by Laura Hoemeke, Joshua Korn, Natalie Meyers, Kiran Nakarmi

Every three seconds, someone around the world requires medical attention for burns

Vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway, in Jal el-Dib, Lebanon, on March 9, 2021.
Urbanization

Injuries: A Leading Killer of Youth in Lebanon

by Samar Al-Hajj, Ali H. Mokdad

Traffic accidents are wreaking havoc on young lives, especially children who are refugees

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.
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 

Students wear protective face masks as they have their temperature checked before entering a class, after the government allowed the reopening of schools from grade six to eight amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Peshawar, Pakistan September 23, 2020.
Governance

How to Keep Schools Open in the Face of Delta

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Maja Pašović

Face masks and vaccines are just some of the methods schools can use to stay open

A child arrives at a primary school on the first day of the new school year after summer break in Vertou, France, on September 2, 2021.
Governance

Supporting Kids With Long COVID as They Head Back to School

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Maja Pašović

Schools will need to accommodate children with lingering post-virus symptoms

A parent carrying a child dressed in cartoon themed pajamas crosses a street in the rain in Singapore on January 10, 2021.
Governance

During This Pandemic, It Is Us that Our Children Need Protection From

by Gwendolyn Thong, Alfred M. Wu

Looking at resilience and mental health across Singaporeans during the pandemic

Teachers and their children wait to board a government chartered bus bringing people back to schools of countryside towns in Dakar, Senegal on May 28, 2020.
Gender

Gender Equality in the Global Return to School

by Joseph Friedman, Silvia Montoya, Emmanuela Gakidou

COVID-19 is threatening to unravel decades of progress on women's education

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
Poverty

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

by Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman, Matthew T. Hey, Megan E. Bouchard

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

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

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

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
Gender

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

by Thidiane Ndoye, Michael A. Cohen

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

A combination picture shows Adetona Omokanye, a 29 year-old documentary photographer, taking pictures from the window of his home in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 24, 2020—along with a shot from inside. Photo is a split screen showing the photographer leaning out the window taking a picture and also a shot from inside looking out at what he was seeing. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
Poverty

Poverty's Albatross—Nigeria in Mid-Century

by Olugbenga Salako

Solving Nigeria's poverty problem will be complex—there are no silver bullets—but it's key to reducing poverty in Africa