health-care

Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?

4:19pm December 12, 2024

by Maria Aspan

The public outrage unleashed by the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO echoes the anti-banking fury after the financial crisis and comes as populist economic fatigue helped re-elect Donald Trump.

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Dr. Elaha Ibrahimi uses her phone as a flashlight during a power cut inside the hospital in Mirbacha Kot, Afghanistan, in October. Health care workers have continued to work without salaries, without medicine for patients and with frequent power cuts.

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No pay for staff. No patient supplies. No heat. This is health care in Afghanistan

11:29am December 21, 2021

by Susan Brink

When the Taliban took over, predictions were made that the country's health care system would collapse. That's no longer just a forecast, says Dr. Paul Spiegel after his five-week mission there.

People line up to receive a rapid COVID-19 test in an agricultural community in Immokalee, Fla., where the poverty rate is over 40%. Partners in Health is working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to test, educate and vaccinate the community during

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Rich nation, unequal health care: Why a charity that's helped Haiti is aiding the U.S.

7:01am December 18, 2021

by Maria Godoy

The charity Partners in Health aims to improve health services in lower income places like Haiti and Rwanda. Now it's setting up a permanent presence in the U.S. with an $11 million federal grant.

A newly-opened COVID-19 hospital in Kabul. Dr. Wahid Majrooh, the acting minister of public health in Afghanistan, must address the pandemic's toll at a time when the Taliban takeover has triggered a freeze in hundreds of millions of dollars in health-car

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Afghan Health Minister: Health Care Is 'On The Verge Of Collapse' But 'I'm Optimistic'

6:48am September 18, 2021

by Kamala Thiagarajan

Dr. Wahid Majrooh tells NPR that "If I am hesitant and doubtful now it won't help anyone, and people in need of care will be the first to be affected."

Afghan women gather to protest claims of human rights violations of women by the Taliban regime.

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The Phone Call That Made An Afghan Woman Doctor Flee

6:23pm August 19, 2021

by Nurith Aizenman

She practiced medicine in Mazar-e-Sharif. She wanted to serve her country. Her story offers a window into what the Taliban takeover may hold for Afghanistan's women.