Alice Amonde sits on a boat on the village of Nduru Beach, Kenya. She is part of the group of women who have fought against the practice of transactional sex that was part of the fishing business. This photograph was taken in November 2019. This spring, flooding from Lake Victoria devastated the village. Julia Gunther For NPR hide caption
Vaccines for measles-rubella and cervical cancer are administered at a school in Jimbaran, Indonesia. Vaccination rates have dropped during the pandemic. Keyza Widiatmika/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Air passengers wearing practically full-body coveralls at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in India. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Leather sandals, made by Saley, on display along with other items. Pearl Mak/NPR hide caption
Marc Silver, editor of the Goats and Soda blog spoke with over a half-dozen experts on how to exercise safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Max Posner/ NPR hide caption
Anglebert Maurice Kakuja, 29, a Sapeur, or Congolese dandy, shows off his fashion sense while wearing a homemade mask in the eastern Congolese city of Bukavu. Sapeurs take their name from the acronym for their group: Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. Raissa Karama Rwizibuka hide caption
A worker with Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population checks the temperature of a Haitian man coming from the Dominican Republic on March 5. Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters hide caption
Sure, you can sing "Happy Birthday" twice to time your hand-washing — but one hand-washer recommends a 20-second excerpt from Beyoncé's "Love on Top." Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption
Ballet dancers in Shanghai rehearse while wearing masks on March 2. A virus first identified in December has altered daily life and public spaces around the globe. TPG/Getty Images hide caption
On Feb. 4, beds were installed in the Wuhan Keting Exhibition Center. With 2,000 beds planned, the center will accommodate patients with mild cases of COVID-19. Stringer for NPR hide caption
This aerial photo was taken on February 2, the day before Huoshenshan hospital was scheduled to open as a treatment center for coronavirus patients. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man rides past the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, which was closed after being linked to cases of a newly discovered coronavirus. Getty Images hide caption
From left: Sekou Sheriff, of Barkedu village in Liberia, whose parents died at an Ebola treatment center; a polio vaccination booth in Pakistan; a schoolgirl in Ethiopia examines underwear with a pocket for a menstrual pad; an image from a video on the ethics of selfies; Consolata Agunga goes door-to-door as a community health worker in her village in Kenya. From left: John Poole/NPR; Jason Beaubien/NPR; Courtesy of Be Girl Inc.; SAIH Norway/Screenshot by NPR; Marc Silver/NPR hide caption
Patients line up for remote health consultation sessions on a remote island near Rangpur, Bangladesh. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption