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A newborn Congolese baby yawns inside the maternity ward at the Kapangu maternity health centre in Kaniki-Kapangu, in Kasai Oriental Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

In Kansas, Health Care Is Failing Pregnant Women Who Are Refugees

by Taylor Cusick

"Appointments were fraught with the silence of uncomfortable providers"

Governance
A deserted Bandra-Worli sea link is seen during a weekend lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country, in Mumbai, India, April 10, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

The Winding Road to Free COVID Vaccines in India

by Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya, Shahul Hameed Ebrahim

Why one of the world's top vaccine producers has wrestled with vaccination at home

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, France's President Emmanuel Macron, and Britain's Queen Elizabeth at the G7 summit in Cornwall, Britain on June 11, 2021. Jack Hill/Pool via REUTERS
Governance

On Global Health, President Biden’s Finest Hour

by David P. Fidler

American leadership arrives at the G7 summit

A man rides a motorcycle in front of a worker transporting sacks of spices loaded on a bullock cart at a wholesale market in the old quarters of Delhi, India.
Governance

Planning Amid Uncertainty

by Chris Odell, Robert C. Reiner

A tricky time in the COVID-19 pandemic

Romania's health ministry and NGOs launched HIV Street Art, a national information and education campaign to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS, in downtown Bucharest on January 10, 2014. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
Governance

Criminalizing HIV Slows Progress

by Deepa Jahagirdar

Discriminatory laws keep people from seeking care and prevention information

Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal on January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Monika Deupala
Governance

Traversing Nepal’s COVID Peaks and Valleys

by Meghnath Dhimal, Krishna Aryal, Achyut Raj Pandey

Traversing Nepal’s COVID Peaks and Valleys

A participant takes part in an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign ahead of World Aids Day, in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Governance

HIV/AIDS and COVID: A Dual Battle

by Charles Holmes

HIV/AIDS and COVID: A Dual Battle

Guardia Civil officer watches as passengers, wearing protective face masks, walk upon arrival from Paris at Adolfo Suarez Barajas airport as Spain reopens June 2020
Governance

The Inequity of Vaccine Passports

by Samantha Kiernan, Serena Tohme, Kailey Shanks

Tracking the global use of COVID-19 vaccine certificates

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his administration's coronavirus disease response, as Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington, DC on June 2, 2021.
Governance

A New Era in U.S. Global Health Leadership?

by David P. Fidler

What the World Health Assembly meeting revealed

A boy stands in a garbage dump—where his family collects food to eat—near the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen on January 13, 2018. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad
Poverty

The War on Childhood in Yemen

by Arwa Mokdad

Halcyon summers have given way to famine, conflict, and loss

U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the vaccination program from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2021.
Governance

U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Health Explored

by David P. Fidler

A series on the future of U.S. engagement on global health

A spectator smokes a cigarette as she waits for the start of the Dubai World Cup racehorse at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 29, 2014. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
Gender

How Tobacco Advertising Woos Women

by Gabriela Gil, Luisa S. Flor, Emmanuela Gakidou

The myth of "You've come a long way, baby" and other ploys to lure female smokers

A man looks from the window of his home as he smokes a cigarette amid the coronavirus pandemic in Alexandria, Egypt on December 3, 2020.
Governance

Unknowing Victims

by Chukwuma Okereke, Louisa Johnson, Luisa S. Flor

The risk of secondhand smoke exposure during COVID lockdowns

A woman wears a face mask during a protest on the Day of the Dead against gender violence and femicide, in Mexico City, Mexico, November 2, 2020.
Gender

Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

by Morissanda Kouyaté

Why we need a global treaty