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A security agent wearing a white protective mask, white polo shirt, and black slacks, walks along the shoreline of a white sand beach with crystal blue waters in Cuba

Wanted: Global Access to Paxlovid

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Elizabeth Serieux, Christopher Troeger

Equitable access to COVID-19 antiviral therapy remains elusive, with many middle-income nations left out

Environment
A man from the Yanomamy tribe waits for his surgery at the surgical center at the Cartucho community during a medical expedition in Santa Izabel do Rio Negro, in Amazonas state in northern Brazil, November 8, 2010.

Climate Change and Global Surgery

by Matthew T. Hey, Ifeoluwa Shoyombo, Elizabeth F. Yates, Geoffrey A. Anderson

Access to surgical care doesn't have to harm the environment and future generations

Dr. Tom Catena tends to a patient, at Mother of Mercy hospital, in Sudan.
Poverty

A Chance to Give Back

by Tom Catena

Reflecting on a medical calling and working in the war-torn Nuba mountains in Sudan

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

Cristian Molina, 26, takes his tuberculosis medication at his house in the shantytown of Lujan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 26, 2019. Molina is prescribed to take 11 tablets per day, seven in the morning and four in the afternoon, which often give him a stomachache.
Poverty

The Fight Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

by Caroline Kantis

A photo series depicting people living with TB

People write notes at the end point of a silent walk organized by Lebanese non-profit organization Embrace, marking World Suicide Prevention Day
Gender

Unnoticed, Misunderstood, and Unaddressed

by Siddhesh Zadey, Sweta Dubey, Pradeeksha Mukuntharaj, Ashmeet Sachdev, Anushka Jindal

Why gender equity in global mental health matters

Placard reads "We want vaccines, there is nothing more to talk about"
Governance

Wanted: One Billion Booster Shots

by Samantha Kiernan, Bayan Galal, Thomas J. Bollyky

What the COVID-19 booster shot debate means for global vaccine access

Empty Sinovac vaccine vials in a bright green tray are seen at a hospital during mass COVID-19, vaccination in Jakarta, Indonesia on January 21, 2021.
Governance

How Relevant Is COVAX to Middle-Income Countries?

by Julia Sawatzky

The scramble for COVID-19 vaccines in middle-income countries

A cemetery worker puts flowers on the graves of people who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during The Day of the Dead celebration, as the outbreak continues, at La Bermeja cemetery in San Salvador, El Salvador November 2, 2020.
Governance

Tracking Lives We've Lost to COVID-19

by Emmanuela Gakidou, Katherine Paulson, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Stefanie Watson, Spencer Pease, Ryan Barber

It's surprisingly hard to answer how many lives we've lost to COVID-19

A health-care worker sits inside a monitoring room after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at the Posta Central hospital in Santiago, Chile on January 14, 2021.
Governance

The Urgent Need to Better Monitor Vaccine Safety in the Real World

by Javier Guzman, Comfort Ogar

The colossal undertaking of global vaccine rollout is facing another gargantuan challenge: monitoring their safety

map of all vaccine donations
Trade

The Politics of Vaccine Donation and Diplomacy

by Samantha Kiernan, Serena Tohme, Kailey Shanks, Basia Rosenbaum

Is a friend in need a friend indeed?

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
Governance

We Must Let a Million Flowers Bloom

by Poonam Muttreja

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

Education in Africa is being disrupted along with everything else—chickens here in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, on August 28, 2020. Picture shows a large gaggle of chickens inside a classroom, clucking around. One stands atop an overturned bucket. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Poverty

The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

by Tom Frieden, John Nkengasong

Deaths from health-care disruptions due to COVID-19 are almost certain to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself

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
Poverty

Scaling up Surgery and Anesthesia, Post-Coronavirus

by Craig D. McClain, Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman

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