Global Health

Fatima Suleman, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences, hopes that WHO's Fair Pricing Forum can help lower drug costs — and benefit drug manufacturers.

At the largest refugee camp in the world, Rohingya refugees and aid agencies face numerous challenges. Now they're also dealing with an outbreak of chickenpox.

In Lagos, street vendors say that they touch and grab their female customers to drum up sales. A group called Market March Movement has formed to protest against the street harassment.

Islands in Southeast Asia were clearly important in the evolution of early humans, say scientists who have turned up 50,000-year-old remains of what they suspect is a previously unknown human species.

Beira, a coastal city in Mozambique, had a system in place to protect against flooding. Still, it was destroyed by the cyclone. Mayor Daviz Simango reflects on what went wrong.

In the wake of the storm, even the most basic medical and personal needs aren't easy to meet.

In "Perilous Bodies," a new exhibit at the Ford Foundation Gallery, artists share their vision of the injustice, from the rickety boats of migrants to missiles that look like a flock of blackbirds.

The World Health Organization says there's been a marked increase in new cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 1,100 people have become infected during the eight-month epidemic.

A report from Johns Hopkins University and Human Rights Watch finds an alarming decline in the quality of health care across the country.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. Ilesh Jani, director general of Mozambique's National Institute of Health, about the massive cholera vaccination campaign underway in the wake of Cyclone Idai.

Some 11 million deaths annually are linked to diet-related diseases like diabetes and heart disease, a study finds. Researchers say that makes diet the leading risk factor for deaths around the world.

Lessons in noodle-making is one of the ways that China hopes to eliminate rural poverty by 2020.