Every day, 2,000 African children die from diarrhea. Every minute, an African child dies of malaria.
Issues / Health
The twin plagues of ISIS and Ebola thrive on the breakdown of the existing order.
A little-known, 41-year-old U.S. law has erected an enduring barrier to comprehensive post-rape care for women.
Uruguay's president has put the country on the map as one of the world’s most exciting experiments in creative, progressive governance.
Africa is the U.S. military's next frontier, and it's using humanitarian missions to get there.
Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, and a patchwork of unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the U.S. is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds.
Many more Haitians will die from cholera, a disease brought to their country by the very people who were supposed to be saving them from disaster.
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