Infectious Diseases

Illustration by Gail Ward, courtesy of Innovations for Poverty Action

Q&A: The Massive Bangladesh Mask Trial, Unmasked

A pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal, at a conservation site in Ninh Binh, Vietnam, September 14, 2020. Vietnam has vowed to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade often blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty

‘Different faces of a single threat’: Global Health Must Play a Bigger Role in Planetary Health

Tonga's King Tupou VI is vaccinated at his palace in Nuku'alofa. July 24, 2021. Image: Kalafi Moala

Tonga is Still COVID-Free—How Long Can a Travel Ban Keep It That Way?

A nurse holds the hand of a patient in a COVID-19 ward of the Redemption hospital in Monrovia on July 1, 2021. Image: Emmanuel Tobey/AFP/Getty

Africa’s Third Wave Hits Liberia

A young girl is at MSF’s cutaneous leishmaniasis treatment center with her uncle at Naseerullah Khan Babar memorial hospital, Peshawar. Nov. 1, 2020 Image by Nasir Ghafoor/Courtesy of MSF

Covid-19 Hinders Pakistan's Progress on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

A Syrian man wearing a face mask walks in front of COVID-19 posters, Damascus. April 1, 2020.

Keeping the Lights on in Syria

A Nepalese health worker takes a nasal swab of a parliamentary lawmaker for a coronavirus PCR test in Kathmandu on May 5. Image: Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via Getty

Help Wanted: Digital Innovations to Bridge Diagnostic Gaps

Argentines protest in Buenos Aires against new COVID-19 restrictions. April 17, 2021. Image: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

Argentina and Covid-19: ‘The Worst Time Is Right Now’

Demonstrators, wearing face masks due to COVID-19, clash with riot police during a protest against President Sebastian Pinera's government in Santiago, Chile on April 27, 2020.

Chile: Covid May Be Surging, but So Is Civil Society

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

Learning from the “Near Misses”

Blue map of the world with red spots indicating countries covered in GHN's Covid country series so far

COVID Country Dispatches

Passengers wear masks while commuting on the Shanghai metro, April 7 2021. Image: Wei Wei

'Vaccines Are Not Our Cure'