Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of millions of people were living globally with chronic pain and fatigue, struggling to find help. Now, efforts to address long COVID—which can include similar, sometimes debilitating symptoms—could benefit both groups of patients. Our first piece reports new findings on the prevalence of long COVID symptoms.
On World AIDS Day (December 1), the chief medical officer of the Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital discusses the progress made over the past few decades in treating of children infected with HIV—but also pandemic-linked setbacks and inequalities in HIV diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
In a wrap-up of the recent twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, David P. Fidler expresses doubts about a rosy future for the new loss-and-damage fund for particularly vulnerable nations, noting previous failed promises by high-income countries to address mitigation and adaptation at home and abroad.
Our final article highlights a new college of agriculture in Rwanda where students are training to become farm consultants, scientists, educators, data experts, and entrepreneurs—a curriculum tailored to empower small farmers with new agricultural technologies that will help overcome food insecurity in Africa.
As always, thank you for reading. —Thomas J. Bollyky and Mary Brophy Marcus, Editors
