Residents spend as much as 20% of their income on water, yet what comes from their taps is green, dirty and undrinkable. Now, ...

Historically, the US Agency for International Development has pumped at least US$4 billion annually into children’s ...

Nine of 10 people needing transplants never find a donor. Updated laws increase the donor pool by allowing transplants from ...

Unscrupulous agencies peddle work to rural job-seekers, then disappear. This leaves migrants without protections — and, in ...

Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to ...

WAKISO DISTRICT, UGANDA — Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled in January that prosecuting civilians in military courts is unconstitutional. When that happened, Ann was ecstatic. Her brother was approaching ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Batsirai Mutara started selling cheese and dairy products from a makeshift roadside stand when he was 27. It was a far cry from his former office job, where inflation devoured his ...

DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Barnali Das waits outside her doctor’s office with her 4-month-old baby. Dr. Md. Shirajul Islam Sumon treated Das for tuberculosis when she was pregnant. Now, she wants to know why ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — On Jan. 20, US President Donald Trump abruptly cut funding for the surveillance of and response to an outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus here. Elon Musk, Trump’s unelected right hand, ...