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A mother in a blue shirt and orange head wrap breastfeeds her newborn as she sits next to her partner, who wears a white collared shirt as he fawns over the child. The two sit in front of a window with green metalwork in a well-lit white hospital room.

How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam

by Linh Nguyen

Southeast Asia is harnessing technology to equip parents with better information about childhood nutrition

Environment
A baby receives a vaccine injection at a children's clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, on August 14, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

A U.S.-European Measles Moment

by Rebecca Sirull, Emma Rogowski

The unfortunate return of a potentially fatal virus can be blamed on one thing 

People waiting for treatment at a hospital after undergoing cataract removals from a free but shoddy eye surgery camp that caused them to lose their vision—in Amritsar, India, on December 5, 2014. The photo shows several people sitting on hospital beds. One man in the foreground is wearing dark glasses. REUTERS/Munish Sharma
Poverty

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

by Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman, Matthew T. Hey, Megan E. Bouchard

Why does the WHO matter? Its global health coordination makes surgical care more affordable and effective for everyone

Four of the world's two billion children under the age of fourteen sit on a bench in the playground at St John's Primary School in in London on July 16, 2020 amid the spread of coronavirus. The photo shows four kids on a bench. One of them is looking at the camera. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs
Food

Children, Hunger, Stress, and Coronavirus

by Hannah Todd, Nicky Joseph

We need to identify at-risk U.S. children and expand safety nets worldwide to keep kids fed, immunized, and looked after

Jiejin Qiu, six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai on September 5, 2014—as China began easing its one-child policy. The photo shows the expecting mother floating underwater in a dream-like shot. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Gender

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

by Thidiane Ndoye, Michael A. Cohen

Newly launched interactive visualization tool will help measure and track access to contraceptives and guide programs

Public transport bus staff offers hand-sanitizer to a passenger who is about to board the bus on the first day of the easing of the lockdown measures during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lagos, Nigeria May 4, 2020. The photo shows a bus driver dispensing sanitizer to passengers as they board. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
Urbanization

Shifting Front Lines in West Africa

by Evaborhene Aghogho Nelson 

Leveraging community health promoters to protect vulnerable populations against COVID- 19 and other threats in Nigeria

The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, May 18, 2020. The photo shows the WHO HQ. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Governance

Why the WHO?

by Chelsea Clinton, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Devi Sridhar

The World Health Organization is essential to convening scientific experts and the world’s best thinking on COVID-19

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Governance

Diagnostic Gaps in Global Health

by Catharina Boehme, Madhukar Pai

Lack of diagnostic capacity in primary care impacts patient outcomes, damages health systems, and lowers health security

A woman waits at a polio immunization health center in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, on August 29, 2016. There is striking color in this photo. She has a bright orange scarf around her head and shoulders and leans against a brick wall that is painted dark red. She holds pink and blue copies of papers in her hands, and the light blue wall of a building can be seen in the background. She holds a bright red bag. The look on her face is serious. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Governance

Vaccine Hesitancy, an Escalating Danger in Africa

by Charles Shey Wiysonge

Called one of the ten main threats to global health by WHO, vaccine hesitancy is pervasive, misinformed, and contagious

Nine-year-old Tumelo holds his grandmother's hand after taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg, on November 28, 2014. Picture shows a large adult hand and the lower part of a child’s face in the background as his own hand grasps his grandmother’s.
Governance

In Global Health, What’s Past Is Prologue

by Ruth E. Levine

The global health community cannot jury-rig its way to the future and requires fresh thinking to address new challenges