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Women sit as they prepare for screenings during the breast cancer prevention campaign in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on October 12, 2019. Image shows a row of several women wearing colorful clothes. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

The Growing Cancer Threat in Africa

by Thomas J. Bollyky

Cancer mortality is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, where the needed health care infrastructure is still lacking

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

Two ends of the age spectrum: Thenjiwe Madzinga, 66, and grandson Thina Gxotelwa in a small room they share in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township on Feb. 23, 2010. Madzinga cares for five grandchildren. Picture shows the pair sitting on a bed in a small room with bright green walls. She is looking lovingly at him, and he is looking at her and smiling, perhaps embarrassed at the camera. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
Poverty

Universal Health Coverage—A Citizens’ Guide to Benefits

by Ruth E. Levine

Realizing this high-level UN priority in low-income settings will demand evidence-based decisions and grass-roots action