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Women receive free treatment for breast cancer at the Bertha Calderon Women's Hospital, in Managua, Nicaragua, on October 17, 2012.

Declarations Without Delivery: Weighing UN Plans for NCD Medicine Access

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International commitments to expand access to noncommunicable disease medicines have been slow to create impact

Digitizing Supply Chains—Down to the Last Mile—to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

Digitizing Supply Chains—Down to the Last Mile—to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Limited visibility in procurement makes eliminating NTDs impossible

Behind Baby Formula and Drug Shortages

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How supply chains break down for life-saving products

Behind Baby Formula and Drug Shortages

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

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Patents aren't really the problem—usually

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

Commercial Determinants of Health in COVID-19

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Often part of the problem in pandemics, private sector businesses can be part of the solution as well and protect people

Customers wearing facemasks are reflected in a mirror as they stand on an escalator inside the department store Le Printemps Haussmann in Paris, France, amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 28, 2020. The photo shows people on an escalator with the photo showing mirror images on the left and right of the frame. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats

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COVID-19 is scary, and so are disease outbreaks in animals—they cause great economic devastation and disrupt human lives

A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by William Young Ottley (1771-1836). The picture is of a pencil drawing of a pig and her pups. CC BY 4.0 via Wellcome Collection

Coronavirus and America's Food Supply

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Swift action to ensure worker safety, robust food inspections, and sustained supply chains should be top U.S. priorities

Youtubers wearing masks of pigs film a video at a shopping district, which has fewer people than usual amid the coronavirus outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, on May 19, 2020. The photo shows two people wearing pig masks and dark suits standing with clear plastic umbrellas open. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

COVID-19 and America's Migrant Workforce

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Need health care and groceries? Congress should protect the immigrant workforce—even if the Trump Administration won't

Migrant worker Cesar Lopez works the fields amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Salinas Valley, California, on March 30, 2020. Picture shows Cesar working with a hoe in his hand. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Long-Term Impacts of Coronavirus in South Korea

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Despite South Korea's high capacity for response, COVID-19's spread may incite human, economic, and political disasters

South Korean soldiers in protective gear sanitize a shopping street in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2020. The image is striking showing the soldiers dressed in silver space-suit looking protective gear walking down a more or less abandoned street in what appears to be a normally busy shopping district. REUTERS/Heo Ran