Low and Middle-Income Countries

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Expanding Medical Oxygen Access Without U.S. Foreign Aid

by Leith Greenslade

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

Gender
An woman walks along a street in Tehran, Iran, on May 26, 2021. Behind her stretches a wall with thick colorful horizontal stripes in shadess of blue and aqua.

Women and Stroke in Iran

by Athena Sharifi-Razavi

Stroke-prevention efforts fail to meet low-income women’s needs

nutrition workshop
Poverty

The Cleft Palate-Malnutrition Connection

by Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Theresa A. McHugh, Katherine Leach-Kemon

During food crises, children with cleft lip and cleft palate are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable

A notice about the shortage of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine supplies is posted at a vaccination center in Mumbai, India, on April 8, 2021.
Governance

Vaccine Equity: Changing the Status Quo

by Shashika Bandara

High-income countries need to take responsibility for COVID failures and commit to a realignment of global structures

As the sun sets, a boy prepares to jump off a rock into the waters of the Osman Sagar Lake near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad May 29, 2011.
Governance

Antibiotic Resistance is a Smoldering Crisis

by Kevin Ikuta, Lucien Swetschinski, Mohsen Naghavi, Chieh Han, Katherine Leach-Kemon

More than 1.2 million people across the globe died of antibiotic resistant superbugs in 2019

White clouds in a bright blue sky above the Himalaya Mountains and Zanskar Valley
Environment

Adapting to Climate Change in the Zanskar Valley

by Lobzang Wangtak, Charlie Ashbaugh

Deep in the Himalayas, lessons from local to global

Women hold umbrellas to cover from rain as they wait to receive a dose of COVISHIELD vaccine, a COVID-19 vaccine made by Serum Institute of India, at a vaccination centre in Kolkata, India, August 31, 2021.
Governance

What It Means To Be Fully Vaccinated

by John P. Moore

It depends on how you look at it

Doctor Georges Bwelle (L), head of the visceral surgery department at the Yaounde Central Hospital, and one of his colleagues operate on a patient at the Nkongsamba prison in Nkongsamba, Cameroon, on July 17, 2021.
Governance

Investing in Surgery, Closing A Global Health Gap

by Geoff Ibbotson, Dominique Vervoort, Rifat Atun

Access to surgery can keep treatable conditions, such as a common fracture, from becoming lifelong disabilities

A woman gets her eyes tested at a free eye-care camp in Mumbai, India on December 6, 2019.
Gender

Staring Down Gender Disparities in Vision Loss

by Jaimie Steinmetz, Paul Briant, Theo Vos

We need to face gender gaps in vision loss

A student washes her hands after clean up at a school in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic in Abuja, Nigeria on March 20, 2020. The photo shows a pair of hands actively lathering under a water tap against a blue background. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Poverty

Where WASH Figures in the COVID-19 Fight

by Katherine E. Bliss, Tanvi Nagpal

Hard-sought health security in sub-Saharan Africa should build on WASH programs, which are already proven to save lives