Untold Stories

A newly established clinic at the Muranga District Hospital extends hemophilia care into Muranga County, Kenya.

“We are Many”: The Race to Treat Hemophilia in Kenya

Prayer flags fluttering above Nepal. Image Courtesy of Emaline Laney.

How Emaline Laney Found the Untold Global Health Story of 2017

Urmila Devi Poddar stands beside her husband Ladayan Poddar, who accidentally touched a live wire and suffered burns so severe that his right arm had to be amputated.

Images of Blazing Injustice: Nepal's Burn Survivors

Anita Neupane following surgery on a contracture that goes from her right shoulder to her waist, which prevents her from lifting her arm.

Fighting Fire with Prevention

Joanne Silberner in classroom in Nepal

Witness to Injustice

Saraswoti, who suffered terrible burns when she stumbled into a pot of oil heating on the open-fire stove in the middle of her family’s one-room home, sits with her father.

Unmeasured and Unfunded: Lack of Data Hinders Burn Prevention and Care

Saraswoti Shrestha was burned as a child when she fell into a cooking fire in her family's previous one-room home.

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Dr. Shankar Man Rai taking a skin graft in a Nepal operating room.

Reconstructing Hope: A Surgeon's Mission to Help Nepal's Burn Patients

Amy Maxmen interviewing

Neglected Diseases

“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