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Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

Urbanization
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

Shifting Front Lines in West Africa

by Evaborhene Aghogho Nelson 

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

The shadow of a girl receiving an evening meal from a humanitarian service center is cast on a wall in front of her family home in Russeifa, Jordan, on April 28, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Picture shows the girl's shadow on an old wall. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
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The WHO We Need for the Next Pandemic

by Nina Sun, Joe Amon

The World Health Organization should be more independent, collaborate with NGOs, and increase emphasis on human rights