WHO

Governments Grapple with Visibility of Disability

The prevalence of disability is matched by its impact. A staggering one billion people across the globe live with a physical or mental condition that limits their movements, senses, or abilities,…

Luisa Markides 15 July 2022

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 file photo, a woman receives her second Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine jab from a healthcare worker during the inaugural vaccination weekend drive in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, in South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Mission “Vaccinate Africa”

Africa is experiencing the world’s worst vaccine deficit. Only a minority of countries—mostly those where vaccines are manufactured—are approaching adequate levels of vaccination. But Africa is…

Ashish Jha, Andrew Iliff 05 November 2021

(Clockwise from Top C) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italy's Prime minister Mario Draghi, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council Charles Michel, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron, sit around the table at the start of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall on June 11, 2021. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)

The Center Cannot Hold

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Washington was coalescing around a new bipartisan consensus: great-power competition, especially with China, ought to be the main organizing principle of U.S…

Thomas Wright 27 August 2021

How to Keep the United States in the WHO

The same week thatthe United Statespassed the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, PresidentDonald Trumpannounced thatthe United Stateswould withdraw from and end its funding for theWorld…

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