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As the sun sets, a boy prepares to jump off a rock into the waters of the Osman Sagar Lake near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad May 29, 2011.

Antibiotic Resistance is a Smoldering Crisis

by Kevin Ikuta, Lucien Swetschinski, Mohsen Naghavi, Chieh Han, Katherine Leach-Kemon

More than 1.2 million people across the globe died of antibiotic resistant superbugs in 2019

Gender
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Suicide and Indian Housewives

by Siddhesh Zadey

In India, the chances of dying by suicide jump drastically if a woman is a housewife

People wait in line to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, donated to Kenya by the UK government, in Nairobi, Kenya, August 8, 2021.
Governance

Billions Committed, Millions Delivered

by Samantha Kiernan, Serena Tohme, Gayeong Song

The mixed record of vaccine donations and diplomacy

Indonesian President Joko Widodo talks with locals during a door to door mass vaccination program against coronavirus disease
Governance

Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Trust

by Christopher Troeger, Thomas J. Bollyky

Science alone won't pull us out of the pandemic

Relatives of a man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mourn during his cremation at a crematorium ground in Srinagar May 25, 2021.
Governance

Countries Hit Hardest by COVID-19

by Maja Pašović, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Christopher Troeger, Theo Vos, Rafael Lozano

The numbers could surprise you

A student washes her hands at a school in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 20, 2020.
Poverty

The Pandemic That Never Went Away

by Emmanuel Agogo

Reflections on the cholera outbreak in Nigeria

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest against the verdict restricting abortion rights in Warsaw, Poland, January 28, 2021.
Gender

Legal, Safe, and Affordable

by Samantha Kiernan

The state of global abortion access

People write notes at the end point of a silent walk organized by Lebanese non-profit organization Embrace, marking World Suicide Prevention Day
Gender

Unnoticed, Misunderstood, and Unaddressed

by Siddhesh Zadey, Sweta Dubey, Pradeeksha Mukuntharaj, Ashmeet Sachdev, Anushka Jindal

Why gender equity in global mental health matters

A protester casts a projection during a demonstration against police violence and racial inequality in Portland, Oregon, U.S., August 1, 2020.
Poverty

Ending Police Violence in America

by Mohsen Naghavi, Fablina Sharara, Eve Wool, Greg Bertolacci, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Laurent Grosvenor

It is time Americans hold themselves accountable for preventing police violence and invest in Black communities

Health care workers holding signs, protest over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus disease (COVID19) outbreak, outside a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, June 19, 2020
Governance

For COVID-19, Development Spending Hasn't Necessarily Matched Need

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

So how should those investments be targeted?

A woman mourns at the grave of her husband who passed away due to COVID-19, at a burial area provided by the government for COVID-19 victims as the country reports a record daily number of COVID-19 deaths, in Bekasi, Indonesia, on July 27, 2021
Governance

Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up?

by Christopher Troeger

Despite a likely undercount in many places, COVID-19 is the leading killer in most of Latin America and Western Europe

People get their eyes tested at a free eye-care camp, in Mumbai, India, on December 6, 2014.
Aging

Putting Vision Loss and Aging into Focus

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Jaimie Steinmetz

Addressing high blood sugar can reduce vision loss in older adults

A patient suffering from COVID-19 and diabetes, is pictured inside a capsule as Red Cross paramedics transfer him from a hospital to another in Mexico City, Mexico, on June 8, 2020
Governance

Noncommunicable Diseases Kill Slowly in Normal Times and Quickly in COVID-19 Times

by Thomas J. Bollyky, Serena Tohme, Samantha Kiernan

Why addressing chronic diseases is crucial for future pandemic preparedness

An Afghan health worker in protective gear checks the temperature of a woman before Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani inauguration as president, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan March 9, 2020.
Governance

What Afghanistan Stands to Lose

by Samantha Kiernan, Serena Tohme

Two decades of health progress at risk with the return of the Taliban