Infectious Diseases

An Indonesian health official holds a thermal gun used to check the body temperature of passengers at the Juanda International airport in Sidoarjo, East Java on January 30, 2020. Image: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty

Coronaviruses: What You Need to Know

Thanks to development assistance to Uganda’s national response, HIV prevalence in Uganda dropped from 7.3% to 6% between 2011 and 2016. Image: Cynthia Changyit Levin

Cutting Foreign Aid Now Would Be a Bad Move

photo illustration of contact tracing

“We Need an Army”: A National Plan for Contact Tracing in the US

Treatment of Strokes in LMICs and Aging with HIV in Kenya: The Winners of the Untold Global Health Stories of 2020

This labor and delivery room has no water. CREDIT: Haik Kocharian

Health Care Facilities Are Everyone’s Frontline

A ventilator and other hospital equipment in an emergency field hospital to aid in the COVID-19 pandemic in Central Park on March 31, 2020 in New York. Image: Misha Friedman/Getty

Why It’s So Hard to Solve the Ventilator Shortage

A health care worker tests for COVID-19 yesterday in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Photo by RIJASOLO/AFP via Getty Images

In COVID-19, the Africa CDC Faces Its Greatest Challenge

A patient holds a packet of tablets received as part of his treatment at Rutsanana Polyclinic in Glen Norah township, Harare, Zimbabwe, June 24, 2019. Image: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty

We Need to Move Faster to Introduce New TB Drugs

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan at a press conference yesterday. Photo: Patrick Siebert / Office of the Governor

“Twin Battles” Against COVID-19 and Economic Disaster

President Donald Trump briefs the press on March 21. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

COVID-19’s Painful Lesson in Leadership

A health worker conducts drive-through novel coronavirus testing in Johannesburg yesterday. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Africa Prepares for “the Worst”

Overuse of alcohol can negatively affect your body’s immune response to infectious diseases. Kotivalo / Wikimedia Commons

Hold the “Quarantinis”: Alcohol and Novel Coronavirus Might Not Mix