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Palestinians inspect the damage after two Israeli missiles hit a building inside the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, in the Gaza Strip, on April 13, 2025.

Health Care Under Fire: How the Middle East Reflects a Global Crisis

by Tim Bishop

Humanitarian law obliges all conflict parties to protect health facilities and workers, yet deadly attacks persist

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A man walks past the liquid oxygen storage tank installed at Bir Hospital by the United States Agency for International Development, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on February 9, 2025.

USAID Lost: Stories From Colombia, Kenya, and Nepal

by Thoai D. Ngo 

Public health and development professionals share insights from three nations hit hard by U.S. cuts to foreign aid

Staff label plastic bags filled with donated blood, in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 9, 2012.
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The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

by Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy, Thomas Muyombo, Bridon M'baya, Onyekachi C. Subah, Adeel Ishtiaq

Amid declining global aid, access to safe blood risks falling through the cracks. Promising new initiatives offer hope

Veronica Jones, a survivor of aggressive breast cancer walks her neighborhood, in Convent, Louisiana, on Thursday June 26, 2025.
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Cancer Patients and the Medicaid Cuts in "One Big, Beautiful Bill"

by Rachel Nuwer

Under the GOP megabill, millions could lose access to potentially life-saving cancer screenings, treatments, and care

Medical staff inspect the damage at an impact site, following a missile strike from Iran on Israel, at Soroka Medical Center, in Beersheba, Israel, on June 19, 2025.
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Hospital Attacks in Gaza and Israel: What Counts as a War Crime?

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Feroze Sidhwa

Global attacks on hospitals and health care have become more frequent, but perpetrators have enjoyed near total impunity

A health worker in protective gear walks inside a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, in Sierra Leone, on December 19, 2014.
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Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

by Mohamed Bella Jalloh, Mamadu Baldeh

Epidemics have a habit of revealing whether the last crisis was truly instructive or merely traumatic

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leaves the stage at the Department of Health and Human Services, in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2025.
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Transparency Misinterpreted: CDC Vaccine Policy and Conflicts of Interest

by Tom Frieden, Yuexuan Chen

A former CDC director says the idea that the agency's vaccine advisors profited from their recommendations is a fallacy

Researchers work on a microbe they say can protect mosquitoes from malaria, at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya on, May 11, 2020.
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Financing Health Innovation in Africa

by Mthuli Ncube

Zimbabwe's finance minister explains how Africa can grow health investments amid high public debt and less foreign aid

Patients wait for treatment as a USAID-funded health awareness poster hangs behind them, at the Hossainpur Upazila Health Complex, in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh.
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The Discomfort of Working Ourselves Out of Global Health

by Girija Sankar

After 24 years, a public health worker grapples with questions of power, inequity, and purpose in global health

A professor at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing, works with a research specialist, as a part of a study under a RO1 federal grant, in Chicago, Illinois, on February 28, 2025.
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Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone

by Joshua Glasser

A former State Department employee outlines the value of international collaboration on health and science

A vendor writes as she stands in a legal pharmacy, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on October 16, 2018.
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Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

by Muhammad Ali Pate, Philippe Duneton

The future of African health systems will be driven by domestic investment and demand for regionally made drugs

A staff member walks past the machines used for pathogen detection, at a laboratory inside the Emerging Viral Diagnostics office, in Hong Kong, China, on March 13, 2023.
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Global Health Governance in the Age of AI

by Elana Banin

National security agencies and tech regulators are rapidly developing governance for AI and biotechnology

U.S. Air Force servicemen unload humanitarian aid from a U.S. military cargo plane at Tbilisi airport, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on August 14, 2008.
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U.S. Soft Power: Next Steps After the Foreign Aid Withdrawal

by Stephanie Psaki

A former White House official on the future of advancing strategic interests while saving lives and growing economies

A laboratory worker looks for strains of E.coli bacteria in vegetable cells placed in a petri dish, in La Mojonera, Spain, on June 2, 2011.
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Mirror Life: Addressing a Potential Biothreat

by Wilmot James, Patrick Yizhi Cai

The first international conference on mirror life will take place at the Institut Pasteur in Paris in June