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The Civilian Health Costs of Aid Sanctions

The Civilian Health Costs of Aid Sanctions

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A new study examines how aid sanctions deepen global health inequality

Recognizing Trauma in Boys and Men

Recognizing Trauma in Boys and Men

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Many social and institutional barriers deter men's access to proper care for mental illness

Globe Trotters

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A sports medicine expert shares tales from team doctors who treat athletes around the world

Globe Trotters

Injuries: A Leading Killer of Youth in Lebanon

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Traffic accidents are wreaking havoc on young lives, especially children who are refugees

Injuries: A Leading Killer of Youth in Lebanon

Investing in Surgery, Closing A Global Health Gap

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

Investing in Surgery, Closing A Global Health Gap

Gaza and the West Bank: Reflections From a Psychiatrist

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

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.

Caring for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Afghanistan

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

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

Ending Female Genital Mutilation

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

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