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A Palestinian woman reacts at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 17, 2023

An Open-Air Prison: Gaza’s Worsening Health and Humanitarian Crises

by Christina Bouri

As casualty numbers increase, Gaza’s already fragile health-care system will soon cease to function

Food
Mehr del Khan Rahmati, who is in charge of a bakery, passes a large flat piece of bread to people awaiting food, in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 31, 2022.

Mitigating Malnutrition

by Allison Daniel

An arresting global surge in the number of people experiencing hunger and what's behind it

Ukrainian paramedics take cover in the woods as air raid sirens go off again following an attack on the Yavoriv military base, outside a hospital in Yavoriv, Ukraine, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on March 13, 2022.
Governance

Ukraine: A Turning Point for Attacks on Health

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin

Accountability is overdue for wartime atrocities in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Gaza, Myanmar, and now Ukraine

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