How will the deep cuts at the Centers for Disease Control affect global programs?
The main campus of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Thousands of its employees were among those laid off by…
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Thyme for some healing soup recipes from around the world
Loading… A steaming bowl of something delicious might just be the world’s most popular form of medicine. In nearly every culture, there’s a soup known…
What kind of support is the U.S. offering in the wake of the Myanmar quake?
Rescue teams are seen at a site where a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28 after an earthquake. The powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar,…
A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: ‘No one prioritizes women’s lives.’
A midwife assesses a pregnant woman at a mobile health clinic in Afghanistan. In the wake of the freeze of USAID, some 200 clinics in…
The head of Africa CDC thought news of a U.S. aid freeze must be ‘a joke.’ Now what?
Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, photographed at NPR headquarters during a visit to Washington, D.C., in…
This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?
The site of a former lead and zinc mine in Kabwe, Zambia. Thirty years after the closure of the mine, the land remains highly contaminated…
USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees
“USAID” is etched onto a covering where signage used to be at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via…
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has its billion dollar grant cut by Trump administration
A health care worker administers a measles vaccine to a child at a temporary vaccination camp following an outbreak in Mumbai. India is among the…
Skin bleaching is terribly popular — and takes a terrible toll
Susan Anderson began using skin lightening creams at age 12. Now 52, she has stopped using the products but her skin shows the damage they…
Pete Marocco tried to upend USAID in 2020 — and failed. In 2025, he dismantled it
Pete Marocco (center), who served as deputy administrator for USAID in the new Trump administration until last week, arrives at Capitol Hill on March 5…