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A patient rests in her bedroom in National League for Democracy's AIDS center, in Yangon, Myanmar, on November 27, 2019.
Governance

Myanmar's Health System Is Under Siege, Endangering the Region

by Joshua Kurlantzick

Myanmar's war has displaced health-care workers and destroyed its infrastructure, enabling disease transmission to neighboring Bangladesh, India, and Thailand

A father and son, working to reclaim what remains of a home reduced to ash, douse smoldering earth with water after a fire tore through their section of the encampment, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on December 24, 2024.
Migration

Rohingya Exile and the Limits of Emergency Aid 

by Darren Cuthbert

As aid funding declines, refugees are perceived increasingly not as temporary guests but as a prolonged burden

Poverty

Earthquake Pushes Myanmar's Health System to Verge of Collapse

by Jonathon Foster, Thinn Thinn Hlaing
Earthquake Pushes Myanmar's Health System to Verge of Collapse
Governance

Fatal Attacks on Health-Care Workers Doubled in 2023

by Allison Krugman
Fatal Attacks on Health-Care Workers Doubled in 2023
Governance

In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground

by Allison Krugman
In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground
Governance

Drug-Resistant Malaria Is Up 1,000 Percent in Myanmar

by Yuexuan Chen
Drug-Resistant Malaria Is Up 1,000 Percent in Myanmar
Governance

Ukraine: A Turning Point for Attacks on Health

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin
Ukraine: A Turning Point for Attacks on Health
Governance

Pandemic Protests: When Unrest and Instability Go Viral

by Samantha Kiernan, Bayan Galal, Serena Tohme, Thomas J. Bollyky
A man stands in front of a burning barricade during a protest against the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Cap-Haitien, Haiti on July 22, 2021.
Migration

In Thailand, Noncitizen Health Matters

by Titiporn Tuangratananon, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Swee Kheng Khor
A girl from a migrant worker family that came to Thailand from Myanmar and lost their jobs due to COVID-19, lines up for free food in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a small girl wearing a facemask looking at the camera. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Governance

Why is Southeast Asia Responding Differently to COVID-19?

by Swee Kheng Khor
A Buddhist monk adjusts his protective face mask before a blessing ceremony for the people affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 22, 2020. This is a striking image with the monk in the foreground and some very colourful Buddhist temple features in the background. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng