untold global health stories contest

Sunrise in the Transkei region in Eastern Cape Province, one of the poorest and most rural of South Africa’s 9 provinces.

Noncommunicable Diseases

Strapped for Time and Resources: Fighting Stroke in Rural South Africa

Journalist Hannah McNeish documented hemophilia's devastation and hope in Kenya. Image: Courtesy

More Than a Medical Story: A Q&A with Hannah McNeish

Jane Mugasha coordinates hemophilia services for the Mount Kenya region.

The Muranga Solution: Extending Hemophilia Care to Rural Kenya

Ethan Miruka, 10, receives blood clotting medicine every 48 hours, a procedure that his mother carries out in their family home. It allows him to carry on a normal life.

Hemophilia’s Crippling Cost

Women in DRC soaking cassava

Neglected Diseases

Konzo: Don't Look Away

Amy Maxmen interviewing

“Like a Nightmare”: Amy Maxmen on Konzo

Etienne Tshiluanjim, 28, center in the wheelchair, leaving the Tomisa clinic in Kahemba with a group of children also suffering from konzo

Neglected Diseases

Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease, Part III

Gaby Ngabu Kasongo and Grace Neema Bandole looking through their engagement photos

Neglected Diseases

Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease: Part II

Cassava is dried and sold alongside the roads outside of Kahemba.

Neglected Diseases

Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease: Part I

Men suffering from mycetoma

The Untold Global Health Story of 2015: Mycetoma

Neglected Diseases

Good News from Geneva

photo of Dr. Ahmed Fahal, of the Mycetoma Research Center, and Nathalie Strub Wourgaft, of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases

Neglected Diseases

The Opposite of Martin Shkreli: Drug Development Without Profit