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What’s working in the 19 countries on track to help end AIDS
Lessons from Botswana, Cambodia, Zambia, and Malawi
Battling period poverty in Kenya
“This is what you can do with this position, as a woman in power.”
To meet demand, blood donation should not rely solely on volunteers
A misalignment between supply and demand especially hurts people in low-income nations.
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Environmental Health
Can a $10 billion climate bond address California’s water contamination problem?
Tucked in the bond on the November ballot is an earmark to improve drinking water quality.
It’s not too late for Elon Musk to take Memphis’s environmental health seriously
So far, he’s not doing much more than moving fast and breaking things.
Food banks are an unlikely line of defense during heat waves
Food pantries and meals-on-wheels organizations are taking on a new role during climate emergencies.
Equity
Digital redlining perpetuates health inequity. Here’s how we fix it.
Not all internet service is created equal, especially for marginalized communities.
Black residents in Cancer Alley try what may be a last legal defense to curb toxic pollution
In St. James Parish, Louisiana, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.
A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. 35 years later, there’s still no sidewalk.
“Local government takes money from the neighborhood but does not invest in it.”
Global Health
How the U.S. election has an outsized effect on global reproductive health
U.S. politics harm women by tying health workers’ hands, even in countries where abortion care is legal.
Mpox offers another chance to confront vaccine inequity
Expanding vaccine manufacturing in Africa could address longstanding disease control problems.
The battle against tuberculosis will be won or lost in India
Experts say the country could be a model for the world. Instead, its TB fight has floundered.
Snapshots
Bite-sized views of big ideas in public health
Mental Health
Cities hope adding mental health workers to emergency response will reduce violence
Ryan Levi, a reporter for Tradeoffs, talks about Durham’s HEART program.
“People forget about the fathers.”
In the barren world of men’s grief, the Sad Dads Club allows fathers to mourn openly.
Is bereavement a public health crisis in the U.S.? This advocate thinks so.
Joyal Mulheron believes we need more face time (and less screen time) in the wake of death.
Policy & Practice
To break cycles of trauma, we need family-friendly addiction treatment
The surging number of children of opioid users in foster care is leading to worse health outcomes.
Could the media stop avoiding public health, please?
Politicians are ignoring the greatest public health crisis in a century, and journalists are letting them.
Public health vs. politics
Increasingly, people’s health choices align with their political identities rather than medical advice.
Reproductive Health
Hispanic women are less likely to get PrEP treatment. A new intervention could change that.
Latinas make up 17 percent of U.S. women, but 21 percent of those living with HIV.
Adopt-A-Mom wants to eliminate pregnancy disparities in North Carolina
The program responds to racial and insurance-based inequities in maternal care in Guilford County.
Researchers look closer at the placenta
A better understanding of the placenta may help curb maternal and fetal mortality rates, but progress is slow.
Tech & Innovation
Community information exchanges quench health data droughts
Data-sharing models from San Diego and Chicago could provide a roadmap for the rest of the country.
Weaving data into the fabric of public health
The field is finding new and creative approaches to how it uses data.
The path to more equitable AI
Health leaders discuss how to prevent public health haves and have-nots.