International Health

Increasingly extreme heatwaves are forcing India’s most impoverished people into heat poverty as they borrow large sums to buy air conditioners for their homes.

Ambroise Wonkam, president of the African Society of Human Genetics, discusses how sickle cell disease and malaria marked human evolution in Africa and beyond, and how it highlights the importance of studying the African genome much more thoroughly.

In the communities surrounding Nyarugusu in Western Tanzania, poor access and unaffordability push many to bring their loved ones to the refugee camp—but they often don’t realize the camp’s medical facilities are dramatically under-resourced. 

The destruction of Haiti’s health system has left women and girls especially vulnerable to maternal mortality, unintended pregnancies, and severe health complications.