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Project HOPE Mexico country director Corina Martínez (right) and health promoter Yoseline Perez (left), along with nursing students from CONALEP Tlalnepantla, provide a mobile health screening clinic to residents in the town of Tlalnepantla de Baz. Mexico.

Women Bear Mexico's Diabetes Crisis

by Corina Martínez Sánchez

Nearly 10% of Mexico's population lives with diabetes, and women are diagnosed at higher rates than men

Poverty
A man helps take a plaster cast of a young boy's limb.

U.S. Recycled Prosthetic Limbs Help Sri Lankan Amputees Walk Again

by Tristan Bove

A 200-year-old charity is tapping modern technology to help Sri Lanka weather a silent health crisis

Children assemble for morning prayers after schools reopen with full capacity following their closure due to COVID-19.
Poverty

How COVID Increased Childhood Obesity in India

by Puja Changoiwala

The consequences of the rise in childhood obesity include type 2 diabetes and asthma

Austin Owen stands with his sons who try to keep Dakota tradition alive after Art Owen's passing due to a diabetes-related heart attack.
Migration

Diabetes, Colonialism, and Killers of the Flower Moon

by Chelsea Padilla

How the Oscar nominee's depiction of diabetes outlines a greater problem for communities haunted by colonialism

holds her newborn child, Malaki, after giving birth in the Family Birth Center at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S., February 1, 2022.
Gender

Diabetes in Pregnancy Is On the Rise Among South Asian Women in the United States

by Tulika Rastogi

As the nation diversifies, why a "one-size-fits-all" approach won’t work for treating gestational diabetes

An Syrian woman with a serious expression on her face dressed in dark colors holds a child who is partially obscured by a bright orange scarf draped over his head. On either side of her, are young men in winter coats walking with her through a desert landscape
Migration

Diabetes, Hypertension, and Heart Disease Don’t Stop for War

by Adrianna Murphy, Éimhín Ansbro

During humanitarian crises, chronic diseases become more complicated

names of people who died of covid-19 are seen
Governance

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Bad. Could it Have Been Even Worse?

by Dominic Voehler, Joshua T. Cohen, Daniel A. Ollendorf

A look at how pre-pandemic health-care trends affected COVID-19 mortality rates

A woman holds a portrait of her late husband after he passed away due to a diabetes-related heart attack, in Red Wing, Minnesota, on September 29, 2021.
Poverty

Casualties of COVID: Insulin and Dialysis 

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Liane Ong

How the pandemic has been life-threatening to people living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

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
Governance

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

Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins, who gave this interview. IMAGE from Brooke Ross Photography
Governance

Racism as a Public Health Crisis

Interview with Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins on the intersection of race, health, and COVID-19

Cigarette butts are seen in front of exhibited skulls during the Day of Skulls celebrations in La Paz, Bolivia November 8, 2019. The photo shows two human skulls laid out with flowers in a ceremonial way with a number of burned cigarettes in the foreground. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Governance

COVID-19 and Tobacco: Unmasking the Smoke Screen

by José Luis Castro, Dina Mired 

World No Tobacco Day 2020 exposes the false dichotomy between public health and the economy when it comes to Big Tobacco

A mannequin with a surgical mask on display where a vendor sells packages of masks on a corner in the Chelsea neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City on March 27, 2020. The photo shows a mannequin wearing a blue mask. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Governance

Why Social Policies Make Coronavirus Worse

by Emily Mendenhall

Too late for COVID-19, but strengthening safety nets and health security in U.S. would help us respond to future threats

A health technician analyses blood samples for tuberculosis testing in a high-tech TB laboratory in Carabayllo, an area in Lima, Peru on May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Poverty

Diabetes and TB—A Complicating Combo

by Kirsten Wiens

Though they are entirely different types of diseases TB and diabetes exacerbate each other in surprising—and costly—ways

Factories emit smoke in Jilin province, China, across the Songhua River from where an elderly man exercises on the morning of Feb 24, 2013, after Chinese authorities announced plans to curb pollution. The photo shows the man in the foreground, back to the camera, with buildings on the other side of the river pouring out smoke. REUTERS/Stringer
Environment

What to do About Type 2

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Theo Vos

Aging, obesity, and poor diet are driving the diabetes epidemic worldwide—and so is air pollution