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A nurse checks a premature baby at a maternity hospital, in Idlib, Syria, on February 27, 2020.

Syrian Doctors Fight Infant Blindness After War

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Syrian American ophthalmologists are banding together to improve pediatric tests for retinopathy of prematurity

A woman from the indigenous Turkana Nilotic community pours sorghum grains into a sack, at a World Food Program food distribution center, at the Kenya Oil village near Lodwar, in Turkana County, Kenya, on February 17, 2026.

How the Iran War Could Drive a Historic Hunger Crisis

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Acute hunger threatens 45 million if the conflict extends into June. A roadmap from the Ukraine War could contain the humanitarian fallout

How the Iran War Is Straining Humanitarian Aid, in Three Charts

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Aid organizations face meandering shipping routes and soaring fuel costs beyond the price of gasoline

Map titled “Shipping Aid in Wartime” showing how food shipments to Port Sudan are rerouted because of the Iran War. A solid dark line marks the typical route from Nhava Sheva, India, across the Arabian Sea, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea, to Port Sudan, with labels for Salalah, Jeddah, Suez Canal, and Port Sudan. A dashed orange line shows the alternate route looping south across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa’s southern tip, and back up West Africa and the Mediterranean before reaching the Red Sea. A note on the map says ships avoiding the Bab-el-Mandeb take this longer route. Caption states that rerouting can add 6,000 miles and more than three weeks of transit time.

"We've Been in Famine for Months": Life in Post-Ceasefire Gaza

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Amid the Iran war and new closures of Gaza's border crossings, Palestinians have resumed a desperate search for food and medical aid

Project HOPE Gaza Human Resources Coordinator Nouralhuda Abu Gefra sits in the rubble of her partially damaged house in Gaza, on October 14, 2025.

Where the Iran War Could Disrupt Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

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Pharmaceutical company executives are responding to the immediate supply-chain threats by targeting unconventional routes

Worldwide Flight Services personnel prepare humanitarian aid packages for the first French humanitarian flight to Beirut, carrying 60 tons of relief supplies and pharmaceutical products, at Paris‑Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy‑en‑France near Paris, France, on March 12, 2026.

A Humanitarian Off-Ramp for the Iran War

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Health diplomacy has long served as means for adversaries to work together when politics make broader engagement impossible

Members of the Red Crescent talk to each other as smoke rises into the air after a reported strike on Shahran fuel tanks, in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026.

Reversing Ukraine's Population Loss After Four Years of War

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Ukraine is facing demographic erosion and devising plans to encourage refugee returns and the birth rate

Bohdana Zhupanyna, a 30-year-old mother-to-be, stands inside her apartment that was damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2025.

A Reckoning for Attacks on Health in Gaza

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Governments and international agencies should condemn both violations of humanitarian law and attempts to weaken its protections

Medical personnel work in an operating room at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 9, 2025.

Two Years of the Gaza War in Three Health Charts

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Two years after Hamas attacked Israel, the health consequences of the brutal war are sharp

Bar chart titled “Child Mortality Explodes in Palestinian Territories” shows child mortality rates (deaths per 1,000 children ages 5–14) from 2013 to 2023 for Israel, the regional average, and the Palestinian Territories. Rates for Israel (dark blue) and the regional average (gray) remain low and stable across the decade. The Palestinian Territories (orange) show spikes in 2014 and 2023. A note marks 2014 as the Gaza War leading to the greatest number of civilian deaths since 1967. A second note marks 2023 as the October 7 attack that triggered a large-scale invasion of Gaza. The Palestinian Territories’ mortality rate rises sharply to nearly 30 per 1,000 in 2023—almost nine times higher than in 2022. Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; chart by CFR/Allison Krugman for Think Global Health.

The War Wounded: A Doctor Reports 62 Miles From Ukraine's Front Lines

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A doctor travels with Project HOPE to Dnipro, where a hospital performs 50 or more emergency surgeries each night

A nurse at the Mechnikov Hospital treats service members Viktor Cherniy, 52, and Vitalii Yunatskyi, 40, who were wounded during fighting against Russian forces, in an intensive care unit, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on May 14, 2025.

The Civilian Health Costs of Aid Sanctions

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A new study examines how aid sanctions deepen global health inequality

The Civilian Health Costs of Aid Sanctions

DRC in Crisis: The Human Cost of U.S. Aid Cuts Amid the M23 Rebellion

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Aid workers and health experts recount the growing humanitarian crisis amid conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC in Crisis: The Human Cost of U.S. Aid Cuts Amid the M23 Rebellion