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Aging
People get their eyes tested at a free eye-care camp, in Mumbai, India, on December 6, 2014.

Putting Vision Loss and Aging into Focus

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Jaimie Steinmetz

Addressing high blood sugar can reduce vision loss in older adults

Poverty
Lea KIlenga Masamo

Kenya's Greatest Sickle Cell Disease Advocate

Lea Kilenga Masamo is destigmatizing a rare genetic condition to improve care for forgotten patients

Students wear face masks during a health-care action rally dedicated to COVID-19 in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia on February 3, 2020
Governance

Tackling the World’s Most Vexing Diseases Through Data

by Lauren A. Do, Patricia G. Synnott, Siyu Ma, Daniel A. Ollendorf

A call to re-shape the way policymakers make health decisions by getting the most cost-effective priorities straight

Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Governance

Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

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
Aging

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