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Doctor Georges Bwelle (L), head of the visceral surgery department at the Yaounde Central Hospital, and one of his colleagues operate on a patient at the Nkongsamba prison in Nkongsamba, Cameroon, on July 17, 2021.

Investing in Surgery, Closing A Global Health Gap

by Geoff Ibbotson, Dominique Vervoort, Rifat Atun

Access to surgery can keep treatable conditions, such as a common fracture, from becoming lifelong disabilities

Poverty
Palestinian children cover their eyes as they participate in a mental health support session in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 6, 2021.

Gaza and the West Bank: Reflections From a Psychiatrist

Q&A with a Doctors Without Borders physician working in a traumatized region

Anisa Mangal on May 14, 2019 holds a photo of her daughter Mena Mangal, an Afghan journalist, parliamentary adviser, and advocate of women's rights who was killed last year in Kabul, Afghanistan. Picture shows the mother stermly looking at the camera holding a photo of her daughter. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
Gender

Caring for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Afghanistan

by Manizha Ashna

Health workers can treat, speak up for, seek justice for, and empower survivors of gender-based violence

Copy of an old papyrus seen in a souvenir shop in Cairo Egypt. Female genital mutilation is an archaic practice that most likely originated in Pharaonic Egypt. The image is of a papyrus GETTY/Izzet Keribar
Gender

Ending Female Genital Mutilation

by Mahnaz M. Harrison, Mark P. Lagon

Best practices are known and political will may finally be here to end this extreme form of discrimination against women