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Blessing Abosede with her son Iyanu. Abiodun Jamiu

Maternal Health

In Nigeria, Hospitals Are Unlawfully Detaining Newborns to Force Payment of Medical Bills

A woman at Akinlapa oil farm filters the fresh palm fruits. Abiodun Jamiu

Local Reporting Initiative

Delicious and Nutritious: The Unrealized Potential of Red Palm Oil

A teen girl presents her case at a debate on contraception at the Billian Music Family Resource & Leadership Centre in Mathare Informal Settlement on July 10, 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya. Image: Alissa Everett/Getty

Surprising Data on Contraception Needs & Use During COVID-19

A Red Cross worker in Narok, Kenya, where an anthrax outbreak in 2019 was swiftly contained.

Learning from the “Near Misses”

Doctors and nurses walk to a house to administer the Chinese Sinovac Coronavac vaccine to a resident during a house call in the village of Daldere, Turkey, Feb. 12, 2021. Image: Chris McGrath/Getty

Making Vaccines the New Social Norm

Indonesian authorities check body temperatures of airline passengers on May 15, 2019 after a Nigerian man infected with monkeypox was diagnosed in Singapore. (Image: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Global Health Security Starts with Countries

A worker with the PHE-Ethiopia Consortium, right, shares information with a schoolteacher in the rural Bale-Eco region.

The Spread of Quality Information in the Era of ‘Fake News’