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A man walks away from a bus that was involved in a disastrous head-on collision with tractor-trailer, in Macheke, Zimbabwe, in January 2024.

Zimbabwe's Bus Disaster and the Deadly Cost of Defunding Global Health

by Darren Cuthbert

Global cooperation could reduce disparities in emergency care, but the United States cut programs for disaster relief

Environment
Women wait for food at a camp for people displaced in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai.

In Climate Fight, Focus on Women and Girls

by Tjedu Moyo

Zimbabwe's Lunia Centre is tackling climate change's spillover effects on women and girls

A health worker disinfects a cholera tent at Kuwadzana Polyclinic in Harare.
Poverty

Zimbabwe's Village Health Workers Persist in Cholera Battle

by Farai Shawn Matiashe

The southern African nation is still battling an outbreak that began a year ago

REUTERS/Eldson Chagara
Migration

Malawi’s Cholera Outbreak Could Spill Over into Neighboring Countries

by Ray Mwareya

Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are all at risk of cross-border cholera outbreaks.

Residents queue to receive cholera vaccinations at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, on October 4, 2018.
Governance

Zimbabwe Struggles With Drug-Resistant Disease Strains

by Andrew Mambondiyani

Drug-resistant cholera and typhoid are sparking fears in Zimbabwe as cases rise

Dr. Mary Bassett with medical students, in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, in 1989.
Gender

Harlem to Harare

by Ted Alcorn

Dr. Mary Bassett on how her upbringing and decades in Africa influenced her thinking about health in the United States

A black and white cow stands on caked and cracked mud before a small patch of muddy, gray water at a dam near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on January 18, 2020.
Environment

In Parched Zimbabwe, Climate Change Pushes Tsetse to New Areas

by Andrew Mambondiyani

Health experts will monitor tsetse-caused sleeping sickness to stem its spread

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa gives a speech at the Heroes' Day Commemoration in Harare, Zimbabwe, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on August 10, 2020. GETTY IMAGES/Wanda/Xinhua
Poverty

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe

by Chido Dziva Chikwari

The country is facing an unprecedented public health catastrophe—and action is required to prevent more needless deaths

Image shows a map of the world color coded according to percent of government spending on health in 2017.
Governance

Which Governments Prioritize Health Spending?

by Joseph L. Dieleman, Hayley Stutzman, Angela E. Micah

As COVID-19 causes simultaneous health and economic crises worldwide, it's an opportunity to evaluate health spending

Going out in a storm is a tough choice. Here a woman braves a sandstorm in Timbuktu, Mali, on July 29, 2013. Far worse is the decision many face today whether to brave COVID-19 for other health care. The photo shows a woman with a baby on her back walking through a desert. The wind is blowing strongly, as evidenced by the billowing cloth on their heads. REUTERS/Joe Penney
Aging

Mothers, Children, and the Terrible Choice Between COVID-19 and Other Infections

by Chip Lyons, Chris Collins

Decisive action is required now to protect the most vulnerable from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during the pandemic

A boy reads the Koran after morning prayers with his family during the holy month of Ramadan, as Egypt ramps up efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Cairo, Egypt, on April 26, 2020. Picture shows the boy reading with his shadow cast on the wall behind him. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Governance

What We Ask About Coronavirus in Africa

by Morine Amutorine, Elaine O. Nsoesie

Search query data from 21 African countries reveal public perceptions, gaps in knowledge, and opportunities to educate

A man offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2020. The photo shows a man dressed entirely in protective gear with his head bowed in font of an ambulance and before what appears to be a corpse wrapped in white sheets. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Poverty

Rethinking the Future of Global Health

by Vaibhav Gupta

There can be no better time to reimagine our health security based on global cooperation, equity, trust, and solidarity

Women wait in line during a UNICEF supported mobile health clinic in the village of Rubkuai in Unity State, South Sudan on February 16, 2017. Picture shows five women in a line with more lined up on the other side of them. The three women in the middle are standing very close, and the third has her arms around the shoulders of the second, suggesting they all know each other. This photo is moving in its simple, straightforward humanity. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola
Gender

How to Save the Lives of Women and Girls in Africa

by Edinah Masiyiwa

African governments must follow through on their lofty declarations and allocate national budgets to save women’s lives