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Small Global Health Investments, Big Benefits for the United States

The Carter Center's experience highlights how global health assistance advances U.S. national interests

Life After USAID: Africa's Development, Education, and Health Care

Alternative strategies to sustain progress on economic development, education investment, and disease responses

Poverty

Zimbabwe's Bus Disaster and the Deadly Cost of Defunding Global Health

Global cooperation could reduce disparities in emergency care, but the United States cut programs for disaster relief

Governance

Climate Change, Global Surgery, and G20 Nations

Integrating surgical care into national health plans can help G20 nations achieve their sustainable development goals

Poverty

The Gaza Gray Zone: Between War and Recovery

Hamas's refusal to disarm and Israel's desire to resume military operations is stalling humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza

Governance

RFK Could Prevent a Bird Flu Pandemic—By Embracing His Environmentalist Roots

Three steps Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. could take to strengthen the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent bird flu plan

Governance

Autism and Identity: Navigating Disability Versus Difference

A personal account describes the challenges many people on the autism spectrum face and the need for better support

Migration

U.S. Deportees on Their Return to Guatemala

Two Guatemalan migrants share their experiences from a returnee center as U.S. deportations rise

Gender

When Endometriosis Causes Mental Illness

Despite endometriosis's links to psychiatric conditions, health systems fail to train doctors to spot these connections

Governance

H5N1 Demands Coordination, Not Confusion

Public health and politics should work together to restore trust and ensure a cohesive response to bird flu

Gender

Intimate Partner Violence in Peru

The country's rates of intimate partner violence are twice the global average

Governance

The WHO's Funding Gap: Filling the Medical Diplomacy Void

Medical accrediting organizations can fill the vacuum created by the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization

Environment

Health Workers Navigate Climate Change in the Bolivian Amazon

Bolivia is the country most vulnerable to climate change in South America and the tenth most vulnerable in the world

Governance

The Pandemic Treaty's True Cost

Is the multimillion dollar cost of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body worth the Pandemic Agreement?