Global Health

Burundian refugee Richard Samuel, 14, holds his homemade guitar as he waits to be transferred to Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania in 2015.

Opinion: From Kigoma to Kyiv, refugees everywhere deserve quality health care

9:10am June 15, 2022

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

Health-care staff in remote clinics in Ecuador have struggled to provide pandemic resources for their patients.

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Young doctors spend a year caring for rural folks in Ecuador. Here's what they find

12:19pm June 13, 2022

by Kata Karáth

For millions in remote areas, health-care is barebones. The health-care team may be a long canoe ride away. Supplies are meager. Electricity comes and goes. And the pandemic made things worse.

Former professional handball player Catarina Esperanca Sanhala clears undergrowth before searching for landmines in a minefield in Benguela province, Angola. "It's a very different life," says Sanhala. "But I wanted a challenge."

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PHOTOS: Angola's all-female demining teams blow up landmines — and gender stereotypes

1:25pm June 12, 2022

by Tommy Trenchard

Angola's civil war left 1,100 active minefields. The attitude had been that clearing mines is man's work until a nonprofit stepped in. Now nearly 400 women deminers tread carefully — and courageously.

Fishermen haul in a fishing net in the eastern central Atlantic off Senegal. Belgian photographer Pierre Vanneste documents commercial fishing in his black-and-white photos.

Must-see art from Senegal's Biennale: Sculptures of sugar, paintings of old postcards

2:46pm June 10, 2022

by Nick Roll

Sidelined by the pandemic, the Dakar Biennale is back. The theme of this year's festival is "Ĩ Ndaffa" — meaning "out of the fire," as artists forge bold visions of the world.

A shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa district Friday, June 10, 2022. Japan on Friday eased its borders for foreign tourists.

Japan eases foreign tourism ban and allows guided package tours

2:39am June 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

Japan on Friday began accepting applications for tourists on guided package tours who're willing to follow mask-wearing and other preventative measures as the country cautiously reopens.

Cinnamon and cardamon bun served in a Swedish cafe, often eaten at fika – a Swedish word that's often translated as "coffee and cake break."

#SwedenGate sparks food fight: Why some countries share meals more than others

4:04pm June 07, 2022

A Reddit user claimed that while visiting a friend's house in Sweden, he had to sit in another room while the family ate dinner. The story ignited a conversation about how the rest of the world eats.

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Monkeypox cases are going undetected or misdiagnosed

5:12pm June 06, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

The monkeypox outbreak has grown to more than 800 cases in dozens of countries. Officials say cases are going undetected because the disease looks different than what's described in medical textbooks.

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A positive result on a home COVID test. If you catch it once, can you catch it again? Turns out the answer is: Yes.

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Coronavirus FAQ: I got COVID. Then I got it again. What's the deal with reinfection?

5:02pm June 06, 2022

by Melody Schreiber

People who catch COVID may feel as if they won't get it again, at least not for a long time. Their immune system should be primed to fight it off in the future. Right? Well, let's see.

A baby receives care in the neonatal intensive care unit of the government hospital in Tripoli, Lebanon. Because of the lack of prenatal care amid the country's massive economic crisis, medical staff members say more newborns are born sick and weak. From

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Lebanon's hospitals are running out of medicine and staff in ongoing economic crisis

5:00am June 05, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

Hospitals are running out of medicines. Staff members are leaving. And some parents will even leave a newborn stranded in the intensive care unit if they can't afford the fees for additional care.

Above: a monkeypox lesion. The lesions in cases that are part of the 2022 outbreak are often first seen on genitalia or the anus. Spread to other parts of the body is possible but doesn't always occur.

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Monkeypox can look different than what doctors thought. Here's what they're learning

4:00pm June 03, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Symptoms that doctors were taught about in medical school are not necessarily indicative of the cases of 2022. It can be much more subtle — and look a lot like other diseases.