With 38,000+ deaths in the last 2 weeks—double the fatalities in North America—Southeast Asia has emerged as COVID-19’s new regional hotspot,
August 9, 2021
Most childhood health programs focus on mitigating infectious or chronic diseases; very few focus on development of the babies that live.
July 1, 2021
Raise your hand if you’ve experienced a far-reaching nasal swab at least once in the last 12 months.
April 22, 2021
In the flood of COVID-19 news—and focus on the hardest-hit countries—it can be hard to parse out how individual countries are faring, and why. While the coronavirus heeds no borders, each country is fighting its own battle—and the details make or break the response. What…
April 5, 2021
A speedy vaccine rollout is Bangladesh’s shining victory during the pandemic, but there aren’t enough takers for the shots, says Taufique Joarder, MBBS, DrPH, MPH, executive director of the Public Health Foundation, Bangladesh. Even as the country negotiated quick access to…
March 8, 2021
Bangladesh’s Second Public Health Photo Contest winners reveal stark public health challenges—from food insecurity, to the lack of housing options in megacities like Dhaka, to the scarcity of safe drinking water. They also illuminate—in vivid, vibrant detail—photography’s…
February 16, 2021
Neglected tropical diseases—a group of parasitic, bacterial, and viral infections affecting more than 1.7 billion people globally—have held back human progress for millennia, disabling, debilitating, and causing early death if left untreated. Yet NTDs struggle to attract…
January 25, 2021
A year after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China, few countries have fully contained the disease. Those that have share few, if any, political similarities.
January 8, 2021
South Asia—one of the most polluted regions on Earth—also has the highest global burden of pregnancy loss.
November 24, 2020
By retesting frozen lab animals, research teams in Asia have found 2 coronaviruses closely linked to SARS-CoV-2—the virus’s first known relatives outside of China. One was discovered in horseshoe bats stored in a lab freezer in Cambodia after being captured in 2010. The…