Infectious Diseases

Itayi, 16, and Alice, 13, serve as youth ambassadors raising awareness of HIV in in Mozambique. Image: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

We Can Beat AIDS with Youth in the Lead

Philippine medical workers donned protective suits during a press conference by health officials on the country's preparedness against Ebola on October 21, 2014. Image: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty

No Country is Fully Prepared for High-Consequence Infectious Disease Outbreaks

A CDC scientist demonstrates a lab technique called “candling,” to gauge the egg's suitability for use in growing flu viruses. Image: CDC/ Robert Denty

Flu Season in N. America: 5 Facts

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

Sixta Bucardo holds her 18-month-old son Llilmer Parrilla Bucardo in Leon Province, Nicaragua on July 29, 2009. Oral rehydration solution saved his life. (Image: Brent Stirton/Getty Images For Save the Children)

We Have the Power to Save Children’s Lives. We Must Act.

A nurse carries a container with Malaria vaccine Mosquirix at Ewim Polyclinic in Cape Coast, Ghana, on April 30, 2019. Image: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty

The “4 Ds” that Threaten Middle-Income Countries

#WHA72 committee members discuss polio eradication and plans for a polio-free world on May 23, 2019. (Image: BWS)

Polio: Waiting for the Final Blow

Local police on a May 18 patrol in Butembo, epicenter of the Ebola crisis in DRC and site of attacks on health facilities. (Image: JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images)

Bullets and Ebola: The Latest Update from DRC

A packed agenda of policy and budget discussions await delegates to this year’s World Health Assembly. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty, 2012

7 Things to Watch at the 2019 World Health Assembly—#WHA72

On March 19th, 2019 the first operating room for surgical management of Tuberculosis was inaugurated at Hipolito Unanue Hospital (Lima, Peru).

How Surgery Could Help End Tuberculosis

Indian TB patient Sonu Verma, 25, poses with his chest x-ray in Sonipat, March 3, 2016. Image: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty

A Roadmap for Ending the Moral Catastrophe of TB

A woman's left foot is checked for mycetoma by DNDi staff in Sudan; her right leg was infected with mycetoma and had to be amputated. Image by Neil Brandvold/DNDi

Fighting off the Flesh Eater: Controlling Mycetoma in Sub-Saharan Africa