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A patient rests in her bedroom in National League for Democracy's AIDS center, in Yangon, Myanmar, on November 27, 2019.

Myanmar's Health System Is Under Siege, Endangering the Region

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Myanmar's war has displaced health-care workers and destroyed its infrastructure, enabling disease transmission to neighboring Bangladesh, India, and Thailand

NGO Blue/Yellow co-founder Jonas Ohman puts an inert, drone-carried explosive on a drone at the NGO headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania, in March 2026.

As the Ukraine War Intensifies, Lithuania Prepares Its Health System

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After a record-breaking month for missile strikes in Ukraine, Lithuanian medical professionals are learning the basics of war medicine to prepare for a possible attack

How a UN Resolution Failed to Protect Sudan's Health Care

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Ten years after UNSC Resolution 2286 passed, a physician details how its shortcomings imperil Sudanese citizens and health workers

A view of a destroyed ward in Khartoum Hospital, in Khartoum, on Sudan April 26, 2025.

Sudan's Health Workers Adapt to Increasing Drone Attacks

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Health workers in El Fasher say escalating drone warfare spurs rapid medical innovation

Women pray in front of a house struck by a drone in El-Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, on January 12, 2026.

Rohingya Exile and the Limits of Emergency Aid

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As aid funding declines, refugees are perceived increasingly not as temporary guests but as a prolonged burden

A father and son, working to reclaim what remains of a home reduced to ash, douse smoldering earth with water after a fire tore through their section of the encampment, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on December 24, 2024.

Iran's Black Rain and the Health Shadow of Oil Wars

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The environment is a casualty of the Iran war, as "black rain" creates toxic damage that typically endures

Black soot after reported black rain following a strike on fuel tanks, in Tehran, Iran, on March 10, 2026.

Syrian Doctors Fight Infant Blindness After War

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Syrian American ophthalmologists are banding together to improve pediatric tests for retinopathy of prematurity

A nurse checks a premature baby at a maternity hospital, in Idlib, Syria, on February 27, 2020.

How the Iran War Could Drive a Historic Hunger Crisis

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Acute hunger threatens 45 million if the conflict extends into June. A roadmap from the Ukraine War could contain the humanitarian fallout

A woman from the indigenous Turkana Nilotic community pours sorghum grains into a sack, at a World Food Program food distribution center, at the Kenya Oil village near Lodwar, in Turkana County, Kenya, on February 17, 2026.

How the Iran War Is Straining Humanitarian Aid, in Three Charts

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Aid organizations face meandering shipping routes and soaring fuel costs beyond the price of gasoline

Map titled “Shipping Aid in Wartime” showing how food shipments to Port Sudan are rerouted because of the Iran War. A solid dark line marks the typical route from Nhava Sheva, India, across the Arabian Sea, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea, to Port Sudan, with labels for Salalah, Jeddah, Suez Canal, and Port Sudan. A dashed orange line shows the alternate route looping south across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa’s southern tip, and back up West Africa and the Mediterranean before reaching the Red Sea. A note on the map says ships avoiding the Bab-el-Mandeb take this longer route. Caption states that rerouting can add 6,000 miles and more than three weeks of transit time.

Iran War Threatens Water Desalination in the Middle East

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A rep from the International Water Management Institute details the possible ripple effects of attacks against desalination plants

Pie chart titled “Middle East Dominates Water Desalination.” It shows the share of global operational cumulative desalination capacity by region. The Middle East has the largest share at 41.8%, followed by East Asia and the Pacific at 22.2%, North America at 10.3%, Europe and Central Asia at 9.56%, Latin America and the Caribbean at 6.1%, Africa at 5.89%, and South Asia at 4.15%. Subtitle notes that the region processes 29 million cubic meters of water per day, equal to 42% of the world’s capacity. A footnote says Africa excludes Egypt, and Europe and Central Asia excludes Turkey and Cyprus.

Darkness and Courage: A Humanitarian in Lebanon Details the War Escalation

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MedGlobal's Lebanon country director describes how communities are stepping in amid the fresh conflict

MedGlobal teams provide urgent support to internally displaced persons, in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 16, 2026.

"We've Been in Famine for Months": Life in Post-Ceasefire Gaza

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Amid the Iran war and new closures of Gaza's border crossings, Palestinians have resumed a desperate search for food and medical aid

Project HOPE Gaza Human Resources Coordinator Nouralhuda Abu Gefra sits in the rubble of her partially damaged house in Gaza, on October 14, 2025.