Nurith Aizenman
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Both countries are huge suppliers of grains and other essential foods. And with widespread hunger and high food prices already, the war couldn't have come at a worse time. -
Known for his efforts to improve global health and as the founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, Farmer died in Rwanda at age 62. -
It's the first step in an audacious plan to solve vaccine inequity by setting up the manufacturing of mRNA vaccines across low-resource countries. -
She's one of 110 girls in a boarding program run by the Veerni Institute in India. When lockdowns hit, they were sent home to their villages, where child marriage is rampant. -
The grim news of mass shootings in California has again cast a spotlight on the gun violence death rate in the U.S., which is higher than much of the world.
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For this health expert based in Boston, the effort to get vaccines to his native South Africa was intensely personal. -
South Africa is a case study of the inequities around the coronavirus vaccine. It has one of the world's worst outbreaks, fueled by a new variant. Yet officials are struggling to buy enough vaccines.
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New results from a COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa suggest the vaccine that was developed by AstraZeneca may not be as effective against the variant found there.
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Not everyone gets tested. A new model estimates how many infections are missed because of this and how many people are actively shedding the virus. The results lend urgency to the vaccine race.
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New research shows how official figures understate the U.S. pandemic: On any given day the number of infected people who are actively contagious is ten times that day's tally of new reported cases.
