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A security agent wearing a white protective mask, white polo shirt, and black slacks, walks along the shoreline of a white sand beach with crystal blue waters in Cuba

Wanted: Global Access to Paxlovid

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Elizabeth Serieux, Christopher Troeger

Equitable access to COVID-19 antiviral therapy remains elusive, with many middle-income nations left out

Poverty
An intubated patient tries to gesture at a medical worker holding his hand at the Sotiria hospital ICU during the coronavirus outbreak, in Athens, Greece, on April 25, 2020. Picture shows the hand of a patient in a hospital bed being held by the blue-gloved hand of a medical worker. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

Scaling up Surgery and Anesthesia, Post-Coronavirus

by Craig D. McClain, Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman

Expanding access to surgery and anesthesia globally would be a win–win for health security and universal health coverage

Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

People waiting for treatment at a hospital after undergoing cataract removals from a free but shoddy eye surgery camp that caused them to lose their vision—in Amritsar, India, on December 5, 2014. The photo shows several people sitting on hospital beds. One man in the foreground is wearing dark glasses. REUTERS/Munish Sharma
Poverty

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

by Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman, Matthew T. Hey, Megan E. Bouchard

Why does the WHO matter? Its global health coordination makes surgical care more affordable and effective for everyone

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
Trade

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

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks in Cape Town, South Africa on Feb 11, 2020 from the balcony where, 30 years before, Nelson Mandela gave his first speech after his release from prison. The images shows the president standing next to a life-sized statue of Nelson Mandela. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
Poverty

Remembering America’s Global Connections in the Time of Coronavirus

by Sten H. Vermund, Chris Collins

Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville give outstanding performances in the new film ORDINARY LOVE, from Bleecker Street, and they are helped by a powerful, semi-autobiographical script by Owen McCafferty. Image is of the two actors sitting together and smiling in a hospital waiting room. Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Bleecker Street
Aging

“Ordinary Love” and Extraordinary Compassion

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

New film starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville depicts the gloomy, gray uncertainty of modern breast cancer treatment

Picture shows a young boy carrying a backpack and wearing a school uniform standing in front of a brightly-colored building. A well-dressed woman directs him while a well-dressed man kneels and points a high-tech thermometer at his head to take his temperature.
Governance

Anticipating Coronavirus in West Africa

Interview with Nigeria CDC leader Chikwe Ihekweazu on outbreak detection, preparedness, response, and COVID-19 in Africa

A health technician analyses blood samples for tuberculosis testing in a high-tech TB laboratory in Carabayllo, an area in Lima, Peru on May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Poverty

Diabetes and TB—A Complicating Combo

by Kirsten Wiens

Though they are entirely different types of diseases TB and diabetes exacerbate each other in surprising—and costly—ways

Famous singer and social activist Bono attends a Senate Appropriations State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee hearing on foreign assistance in Washington D.C. on April 12, 2016. The photo shows Bono at a long table with several rows of chairs behind him. The chairs are filled with people who appear to be laughing. The REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
Governance

How to Tackle Global Problems in an Age of Populism

by Chris Collins, Mark P. Lagon

Appetites for investment do exist today to define achievable goals, apply effective tools, and solve global challenges