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Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: Building Supply Chain Resilience in Africa

by Jendayi Frazer, Molly Carlough

Absorbing the lessons of COVID-19 requires adopting a broader and longer-term perspective

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Balancing Global Interdependence and Self-Reliance

by Bryan Mercurio, Ronald Tundang

The future of critical medicines production

Benjamin Makele, logistician responsible for the cold chain with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), prepares to plug a vaccine temperature log into his computer in Boso-Manzi in Mongala province in the Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2020.
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Why Investing in Cold Chain Technologies Will Improve Health Outcomes

by Vaibhav Gupta

Failure to maintain an unbroken cold chain is among the top reasons vaccines are discarded.

A worker disinfects a dining room at a sanitary supplies factory, amid growing fears over the spread of COVID-19, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on May 16, 2022.
Governance

Avoiding Health Spending Panic and Neglect

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

The importance of maintaining momentum in health spending

A boy shows a wound he sustained after a stray dog attacked him, at a rabies clinic in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 2, 2019.
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Digitizing Supply Chains—Down to the Last Mile—to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

by Carla Johnson, Gesa Pellier

Limited visibility in procurement makes eliminating NTDs impossible

An activist of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS, a non-governmental group, holds an empty package of the drug Aluvia, as she takes part in a rally in front of the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers building in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 1, 2015.
Governance

War Threatens Ukraine's Progress Curbing HIV/AIDS

by Spencer Feingold

Russia's invasion is keeping lifesaving medication out of the hands of Ukrainians living with HIV

Four of the world's two billion children under the age of fourteen sit on a bench in the playground at St John's Primary School in in London on July 16, 2020 amid the spread of coronavirus. The photo shows four kids on a bench. One of them is looking at the camera. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs
Food

Children, Hunger, Stress, and Coronavirus

by Hannah Todd, Nicky Joseph

We need to identify at-risk U.S. children and expand safety nets worldwide to keep kids fed, immunized, and looked after

Jiejin Qiu, six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai on September 5, 2014—as China began easing its one-child policy. The photo shows the expecting mother floating underwater in a dream-like shot. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Gender

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

by Thidiane Ndoye, Michael A. Cohen

Newly launched interactive visualization tool will help measure and track access to contraceptives and guide programs

A drug addict uses a glass water pipe to smoke methamphetamine at an undisclosed drug den in Manila, Philippines, on June 20, 2016. The photo is a closeup of a man smoking from a glass pipe. REUTERS/Staff/File Photo
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Coronavirus is a Public Health Nightmare—Now Comes One More

by A. Taylor Thomas, Emily Briskin

As the pandemic chokes off opioid supplies from China and unemployment skyrockets, U.S. meth addiction is set to explode

A double rainbow is seen above a woman holding an umbrella and selling snacks along the road in Siaya County, Kenya, on May 3, 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. This is a spectacular photo that shows a woman under a bright red umbrella from behind as she is sitting on the side of the road greeting passer-bys with a full-double rainbow highlighting a storm-darkened sky in the distance. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
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Africa and Europe After COVID-19

by Geert Laporte , Sara Pantuliano, Vera Mazzara 

When the dust of this crisis settles, it will be time to pour a new foundation for EU-Africa relations moving forward

Volunteers take a break as they set up beds inside the Novi Sad Fair to accommodate people who suffer mild symptoms of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Novi Sad, Serbia, March 27, 2020. This is a striking image of two people resting on the edge of plain metal bed frames in a large space in which many, many more bed frames are placed. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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EU: Strongly United for Health—Deeply Divided on the Economy

by Ilona Kickbusch, Susan Bergner

Lock-step solidarity during COVID-19 pandemic is challenged by policy questions within and "mask diplomacy" from abroad