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helene gayle with children in kenya

Choosing to Make a Change

Dr. Helene Gayle on her trailblazing career and the questions she still ponders

Gender
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

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

Cuban doctors receive Cuban and Italian flags during a farewell ceremony before departing to Italy to assist, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2020. the photo shows doctors lined up taking flags of Italy and cuba. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Migration

Medical Diplomacy—Lessons From Cuba

by Hannah Todd

COVID-19 is a chance to design more efficient, equitable, and ethical health care responses during a crisis

A person with HIV/AIDS is helped to his bedroom by caregivers from a community home-based care team visiting him at his home in Matero township on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia on April 17, 2012. The picture shows the torso of a man wearing a loose-fitting light blue shirt being helped by two other people. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Governance

A Global Imperative for Local Support

by Charles Holmes

The novel coronavirus pandemic raises the stakes for strengthening local partners and capacity to deliver health care

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks in Cape Town, South Africa on Feb 11, 2020 from the balcony where, 30 years before, Nelson Mandela gave his first speech after his release from prison. The images shows the president standing next to a life-sized statue of Nelson Mandela. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
Poverty

Remembering America’s Global Connections in the Time of Coronavirus

by Sten H. Vermund, Chris Collins

Young girls holding U.S. and Kenyan flags wait to greet U.S. Ambassador Robert Godec at a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) project for girls' empowerment in Nairobi on Mar 10, 2018. The photo shows four girls from the stomach down holding flags. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Gender

The U.S. Government’s Role in Addressing Global Women’s Health

by Jen Kates, Kellie Moss

What will happen to women and girls in low- and middle-income countries in the future as aid stalls and progress slows?

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

Demonstrators march through the streets of Cape Town to highlight the need for new strategies and medicines to curb the spread of tuberculosis on November 8, 2007. Picture shows a crowd of people wearing red shirts with a woman at center shouting into the camera
Governance

TB: The Challenge of Changing Drug Policies

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Complex lessons in governance seen in rollout of new tuberculosis drug bedaquiline in South Africa, Belarus and Vietnam