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

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

Marburg in Rwanda: What to Expect

Marburg in Rwanda: What to Expect

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Physician and Ebola survivor Craig Spencer on Rwanda's response and how the international community can help

Africa CDC Declares Mpox Emergency, Moving to Lead Response

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The declaration will enable Africa to take on a more prominent role in the fight against the outbreak

Africa CDC Declares Mpox Emergency, Moving to Lead Response

Mental Health Care in Rwanda: Three Decades of Resilience

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Insights into Rwanda's strategies and successes in building mental health services after genocide

Mental Health Care in Rwanda: Three Decades of Resilience

Rwanda's Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others

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Three takeaways for other low-income countries

Rwanda's Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others

Rethinking Farming in Rwanda

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The Rwandan Institute for Conservation Agriculture wants to empower small farmers

Rethinking Farming in Rwanda

He Shaped the Field of Global Health

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Paul Farmer championed ideas about social justice and equity—about what health care should be

He Shaped the Field of Global Health

What We Ask About Coronavirus in Africa

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Search query data from 21 African countries reveal public perceptions, gaps in knowledge, and opportunities to educate

A boy reads the Koran after morning prayers with his family during the holy month of Ramadan, as Egypt ramps up efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Cairo, Egypt, on April 26, 2020. Picture shows the boy reading with his shadow cast on the wall behind him. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Universal Health Coverage

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Universal health coverage is achievable for all countries—and in the aftermath of the pandemic, it should be implemented

A woman gets her eyes tested at a free eye-care camp on the occasion of Indian politician Babasaheb Ambedkar's death anniversary in Mumbai, India, December 6, 2019. The photo shows an older woman with testing glasses on her face. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Dual Pandemics: Coronavirus and Gender-Based Violence

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With violence doubling in some places, women bear the brunt of COVID-19—lessons from Rwanda for a post-pandemic world

Congolese girls displaced by war stand on the outskirts of a makeshift camp near Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on February 11, 2009. The photo shows two girls standing on a hill overlooking a camp filled with white tents at sunset. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Coronavirus in East Africa

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Disease-induced divisions and challenges to regional blocs are set to deepen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic

A man coughs as children walk past roadside, during the coronavirus pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. This is a powerful image of two children looking at a man who is coughing into his had with his head turned. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Expertise, Coronavirus, and the New Normal

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North–south divide in the time of coronavirus may be a preview of what will emerge on other side of the pandemic

“Nobody knows anything,” said Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman, who wrote the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross. The photo is an original movie poster of the movie with the words across the bottom, "Not that it matters, but most of it is true." GETTY Images/Movie Poster Image Art