In a world beset by health crises, six countries made progress vanquishing diseases like trachoma (spread by flies and causing blindness) and visceral leishmaniasis (spread by sand flies and causing organs to swell and malfunction). Sleeping sickness has not been cured, but there is a more effective treatment now for the chronic form.

All of the above. It’s a restaurant; a society for minority architects in North America; NPR’s neighborhood in Washington, D.C. And in global health vocab, it’s a potentially fatal flesh-eating bacterial disease that hits mainly children in extreme poverty in Africa and Asia. The name “noma” is from the Greek nomē — “to devour”.

Cash grants. As reporter Nurith Aizenman writes, the groups given cash “were better off than people in the control group who got no money.”

The new study “suggests the vision of early men as the exclusive hunters is simply wrong — and evidence that early women were also hunting has been there all along,” NPR reported.

Yup, AI reflects built-in human biases!

Despite a bias in Western countries that moms and dads should do it all, many cultures recognize theimportance of having extra hands from family and friends.

The prefix “allo” derives from the Greek word for “other.” So alloparents are literally “other parents.”

Even though the Maori had complaints about anti-smoking strategies, they embrace the idea of reducing smoking — a serious health issue in their community.

Despite an increase in tuberculosis cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, new drugs offer hope.

If someone offers you a glass of raw date palm sap, you’d be wise to decline.

False. The global state of emergency was lifted by the World Health Organization in May 2023. But according to the WHO, the pandemic is still happening.