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A view of a destroyed ward in Khartoum Hospital, in Khartoum, on Sudan April 26, 2025.

How a UN Resolution Failed to Protect Sudan's Health Care

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Ten years after UNSC Resolution 2286 passed, a physician details how its shortcomings imperil Sudanese citizens and health workers

Two women cook dinner after Cuba's national electric grid collapsed for the second time in a week, amid the U.S.-imposed oil blockade, in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2026.

Cuba's Health Care Buckles Under Fuel Blockade

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A professor of Latin American public health details how the 2026 fuel blockade has affected every domain of Cuba's health system

Sudan's Health Workers Adapt to Increasing Drone Attacks

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Health workers in El Fasher say escalating drone warfare spurs rapid medical innovation

Women pray in front of a house struck by a drone in El-Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, on January 12, 2026.

How the Iran War Is Straining Humanitarian Aid, in Three Charts

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Aid organizations face meandering shipping routes and soaring fuel costs beyond the price of gasoline

Map titled “Shipping Aid in Wartime” showing how food shipments to Port Sudan are rerouted because of the Iran War. A solid dark line marks the typical route from Nhava Sheva, India, across the Arabian Sea, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea, to Port Sudan, with labels for Salalah, Jeddah, Suez Canal, and Port Sudan. A dashed orange line shows the alternate route looping south across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa’s southern tip, and back up West Africa and the Mediterranean before reaching the Red Sea. A note on the map says ships avoiding the Bab-el-Mandeb take this longer route. Caption states that rerouting can add 6,000 miles and more than three weeks of transit time.

"We've Been in Famine for Months": Life in Post-Ceasefire Gaza

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Amid the Iran war and new closures of Gaza's border crossings, Palestinians have resumed a desperate search for food and medical aid

Project HOPE Gaza Human Resources Coordinator Nouralhuda Abu Gefra sits in the rubble of her partially damaged house in Gaza, on October 14, 2025.

A Humanitarian Off-Ramp for the Iran War

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Health diplomacy has long served as means for adversaries to work together when politics make broader engagement impossible

Members of the Red Crescent talk to each other as smoke rises into the air after a reported strike on Shahran fuel tanks, in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026.

Repairing Global Health Security at the Humanitarian Frontline

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Reorienting the global preparedness system to include humanitarian settings requires conceptual and operational shifts

A nurse from Save the Children prepares vaccinations for internally displaced Somali children, in Baidoa, Somalia, on June 25, 2025.

What Sudan's Cholera Outbreak Reveals About Its Fragile Health System

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Conflict and neglect have destroyed Sudan's health-care infrastructure, overwhelming the remaining medical facilities

What Sudan's Cholera Outbreak Reveals About Its Fragile Health System

DRC in Crisis: The Human Cost of U.S. Aid Cuts Amid the M23 Rebellion

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Aid workers and health experts recount the growing humanitarian crisis amid conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC in Crisis: The Human Cost of U.S. Aid Cuts Amid the M23 Rebellion

The Gaza Gray Zone: Between War and Recovery

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Hamas's refusal to disarm and Israel's desire to resume military operations is stalling humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza

The Gaza Gray Zone: Between War and Recovery

Sudan's Genocide Deepens Famine

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Ongoing conflict threatens Sudan's already weak food system, leaving millions at risk of famine

Sudan's Genocide Deepens Famine

Safety Concerns Plague Humanitarian Aid Work

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Threats that environmental and health conditions pose to humanitarian aid workers are frequently overlooked

Safety Concerns Plague Humanitarian Aid Work