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Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone

Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone

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A former State Department employee outlines the value of international collaboration on health and science

A WHO Director on the Future of Polio Eradication

A WHO Director on the Future of Polio Eradication

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Hamid Jafari, the World Health Organization's polio chief for the Eastern Mediterranean, discusses funding post-USAID

Expanding Medical Oxygen Access Without U.S. Foreign Aid

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Oxygen can be a pathfinder for a new global health era when national governments sit in the driver's seat

Expanding Medical Oxygen Access Without U.S. Foreign Aid

We Must Let a Million Flowers Bloom

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For India to thrive, the voluntary, non-governmental organization sector must survive

A million blooming flowers—and then some! Here a woman works inside her mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on March 26, 2015. The photo shows a woman bending over in a field of bright yellow blossoms. REU-TERS/Danish Ismail

Scaling up Surgery and Anesthesia, Post-Coronavirus

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Expanding access to surgery and anesthesia globally would be a win–win for health security and universal health coverage

An intubated patient tries to gesture at a medical worker holding his hand at the Sotiria hospital ICU during the coronavirus outbreak, in Athens, Greece, on April 25, 2020. Picture shows the hand of a patient in a hospital bed being held by the blue-gloved hand of a medical worker. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

National Security Risks and the American Weak Link

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We should address U.S. investment choices in Public Health Infrastructure and Universal Health Care after COVID-19

A volunteer places American flags on the National Mall in Washington DC—representing some of the more than 200,000 lives lost in the United States to coronavirus—on September 22, 2020. The photo shows a young woman on one knee planting a small American flag in the ground. Many more can be seen blurred and out of focus in the foreground. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Vaccine Nationalism and Africa

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African Union calls for a “People's Vaccine” as African Academy of Sciences begins mapping local clinical trials sites

Volunteers wait for their names to be called before testing and taking part in a COVID-19 clinical trial at the Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 27, 2020. Picture shows a waiting room full of people. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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

Racism as a Public Health Crisis

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

The photo shows the council vice president standing in front of a slate-colored brick wall with her hands together looking at the camera.

In Africa’s COVID-19 Response, Strive, Don’t Settle

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Broad and equitable health systems could finally be within reach for African countries—closer than the world realizes

Maasai elders, wearing traditional clothes and facemasks due to coronavirus, gather within the Orboma Manyatta in Sekenani, near the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya, on August 10, 2020. This is a striking photo that shows a number of the elders in brightly colored reddish clothing on a clear day against a backdrop of what appears to be a village. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

A New Way to Drive COVID-19 Vaccine Development

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How a "benefit-based advance market commitment" could build on existing Gavi COVAX and EU Joint Procurement initiatives

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken on April 10, 2020, in Bosnia. The photo shows a woman holding a small vial to her face. She is wearing a mask and gloves and the vial reads, COVID-19. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

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