Global Health

A man takes a selfie while getting the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination day in Mexico City.

The U.S. Is Sending 1 Million Vaccines To Mexico Border Cities And Resort Spots

11:12am June 04, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Mexico has reported more than 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 228,000 deaths as of Thursday. Targeting the shots toward tourist areas is a bid to boost the country's economy.

Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending allowing people to mix COVID-19 vaccine doses. Here, people walk past a vaccination clinic this week in Toronto.

Want To Mix 2 Different COVID-19 Vaccines? Canada Is Fine With That

7:29am June 04, 2021

by Bill Chappell

As of late May, 50.6% of Canada's population had received at least one vaccination shot — but only 4.6% of the population was fully vaccinated.

International Committee Of The Red Cross Director On Hurdles To Aid Gaza And Israel

4:25pm June 03, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, about the situation in Gaza and Israel after the 11-day war in May.

From left: Home cooked food at Srabasti Ghosh's home, ready for delivery. A volunteer delivers food to COVID-19 patients outside their home. Ghosh (right) with a friend who has joined to help.

How Two Dancers, A Mom And A Life Coach Help Out In India's COVID Crisis

11:34am June 03, 2021

by Sreyashi Dey

Amid India's COVID surge, regular folks are channeling their time, talents and resources to support their neighbors — and strangers, too. Public health experts say it's making a real impact.

India's COVID-19 Outbreak Has Spread To Nepal

5:36pm June 02, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

India's COVID-19 outbreak has spread to neighboring Nepal, where it's straining an even smaller, less-resourced health system. The virus has even reached Mount Everest, where climbers have fallen ill.

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease, by Daisy Hernández

'The Kissing Bug' Challenges Which Diseases Matter — And Why

8:15am June 02, 2021

by Kristen Martin

Through the story of her aunt, who died of Chagas, Daisy Hernández raises damning questions about which diseases get attention — and whom we believe to be deserving of care.

From left: A New Delhi woman waits in an observation room after getting the Covishield vaccine (the name used for the AstraZeneca vaccine in India) on May 26. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a vaccination center after his first AstraZeneca dose o

AstraZeneca's Rocky Rollout: The Woes Of The 'Vaccine For The World'

6:17pm June 01, 2021

by Jason Beaubien

Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.

Why Americans Should Care That Other Countries Are Still Struggling With COVID-19

5:05pm June 01, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security about the COVID-19 pandemic from a global perspective.

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Demonstrators wearing protective face masks hold signs depicting President Jair Bolsonaro as a virus protest against the government's response in combating COVID-19, demanding the impeachment of Bolsonaro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 29, 2021

Peruvian Officials More Than Double COVID Death Toll, Saying They Undercounted

8:39am June 01, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

"Glaring gaps" in access to COVID-19 vaccines are partially to blame for increasing infection rates in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other Latin American and Caribbean countries .

"At present, pathogens have greater power than WHO," World Health Organization leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. "They exploit our interconnectedness and expose our inequities and divisions." Tedros is seen speaking earlier this month in G

The 'Time Has Come' For A Global Pandemic Treaty, WHO's Tedros Says

5:33pm May 31, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Pathogens can blossom from an outbreak into a pandemic because they "exploit our interconnectedness and expose our inequities and divisions," the World Health Organization's leader says.